Sunday, January 30, 2022

Gender Diffs in Childhood Trauma, Schizotypy, Negative Emotions: Cognitive Disorganisation (poor attention, concentration, decision-making, social cognition) positively corrs w/physical neglect & sexual abuse as children in women, no links among men

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Thomas, Elizabeth H.X., Susan L. Rossell, and Caroline Gurvich. 2022. "Gender Differences in the Correlations between Childhood Trauma,...

Risk Perception and Behaviour Change, COVID-19: Socializing rebounded after partial vaccination; after full vaccination, communal activities recovered; however, the propensity for protective behaviours declined

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Jia, Jayson S., Yun Yuan, Jianmin Jia, and Nicholas Christakis. 2022. “Risk Perception and Behaviour Change After Personal Vaccination for C...

Rolf Degen summarizing... The sport science and coaching community is very susceptible to pseudoscientific bullshit

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Stoszkowski, John, Shane Littrell, and Dave Collins. 2022. “Cutting the Crap: The Perceived Prevalence of Pseudoscientific Bullshit in Sport...

Why men are the main COVID-19 transmitters: Despite no observed differences in viral load in nasopharyngeal samples, adult males showed a significantly higher viral load in saliva samples than adult women; plus men have higher aerosol emissions

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Men are the main COVID-19 transmitters: behavior or biology? Monize V. R. Silva, Mateus V. de Castro, Maria Rita Passos-Bueno, Paulo A. Otto...

Unattractive faces are more attractive when the bottom-half is masked, an effect that reverses when the top-half is concealed

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Unattractive faces are more attractive when the bottom-half is masked, an effect that reverses when the top-half is concealed. Farid Pazhooh...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Claim: Like other creative workds, computer programs have aesthetic value, computer programming is a form of art

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Kershaw, T. C., Clifford, R. D., Khatib, F., & El-Nasan, A. (2022). An initial examination of computer programs as creative works. Psych...

From 2014... For both males and females, mathematical precocity early in life predicts later creative contributions and leadership in critical occupational roles

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Life Paths and Accomplishments of Mathematically Precocious Males and Females Four Decades Later David Lubinski, Camilla P. Benbow, and Harr...

Men say "I love you" before women do... and it happens across the globe

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Men say "I love you" before women do: Robust across several countries. Christopher Watkins et al. Journal of Social and Personal R...

Chimps have more interests toward strange body parts, compared to typical parts, suggesting that they might have a body representation that is sufficiently sensitive to detect these aspects of strangeness

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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) detect strange body parts: an eye-tracking study. Jie Gao, Ikuma Adachi & Masaki Tomonaga. Animal Cognitio...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Individuals who described themselves as "victims" in their dating profiles received considerably fewer matches

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To date a “victim”: testing the stigma of the victim label through an experimental audit of dating apps. Douglas N. Evans, Chunrye Kim &...

Replicated successfully: When an ostensibly prosocial action also serves some private goal, the action is viewed as less virtuous than a purely selfish act

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The tainted altruism effect: a successful pre-registered replication. Valerie Alcala, Kendra Johnson, Caroline Steele, Juanshu Wu, Donglai Z...

The evidence of state pre-K effectiveness has gotten worse over the last 50 years: Either pre-K is getting worse, or we're getting better at measuring how ineffective it is at raising achievement

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Durkin, K., Lipsey, M. W., Farran, D. C., & Wiesen, S. E. (2022). Effects of a statewide pre-kindergarten program on children’s achievem...

Love in the Time of COVID-19: A Multi-Wave Study Examining the Salience of Sexual and Relationship Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Love in the Time of COVID-19: A Multi-Wave Study Examining the Salience of Sexual and Relationship Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Agni...