Tuesday, January 11, 2022

New genetics study of 5.4 million individuals on height: The top ~12k genetic variants explain ~40% of individual differences in Europeans, and 10-20% in other ancestries

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A Saturated Map of Common Genetic Variants Associated with Human Height from 5.4 Million Individuals of Diverse Ancestries. Loic Yengo et al...

Rates of Forced Sexual Experiences Among High School Students From 2001 to 2019: Rates of forced sex maintained for girls, there was a decrease over time for boys; as girls and boys aged, the risk of forced sex increased

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Rates of Forced Sexual Experiences Among High School Students From 2001 to 2019. Tiffany L. Marcantonio, James Weese, Malachi Willis. Journa...

Psychopathy factor 2 (erratic lifestyle & anti-sociality) weakly linked to lower intelligence; otherwise Dark Triad traits are relatively independent of IQ

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Michels, M. (2022). General intelligence and the dark triad: A meta-analysis. Journal of Individual Differences, 43(1), 35-46. Jan 2022. htt...

Machine learning: Men's sexual satisfaction was overall more predictable than women's

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Identifying the strongest self-report predictors of sexual satisfaction using machine learning. Laura M. Vowels, Matthew J. Vowels, Kristen ...

Judgments About Male Victims of Sexual Assault: 2019 female cohort more likely to attribute encouragement to victim (27% in 2019 vs 4% in 1984) & to believe that the victim derived pleasure or had less stress (25% vs 5%) than female victims

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Judgments About Male Victims of Sexual Assault by Women: A 35-Year Replication Study. Emma K. PeConga, Jacqueline E. Spector, Ronald E. Smit...

Vascular and blood-brain barrier-related changes underlie stress responses and resilience in female mice and depression in human tissue

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Vascular and blood-brain barrier-related changes underlie stress responses and resilience in female mice and depression in human tissue. Lau...