Monday, February 21, 2022

Eating Vegetables Does Not Protect Against Heart Disease; BBC headline is 'Vegetables alone not enough to reduce heart risk, study finds'

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Raw and Cooked Vegetable Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Study of 400,000 Adults in UK Biobank. Qi Feng. Frontiers in Nutr...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

Women reported less sexual pleasure than men; for men, sex is almost invariably pleasurable

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Sexual Pleasure Matters (Especially for Women) — Data from the German Sexuality and Health Survey (GeSiD). Verena Klein, Ellen Laan, Franzis...

Neuroticism and cardiovascular diseases are genetically related, and the genetic liability to neuroticism exerts causal effects on the heart

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Zhang, F., Cao, H., & Baranova, A. (2022). Genetic variation mediating neuroticism’s influence on cardiovascular diseases. Journal of Ps...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants; response time slowing begins as early as age 20, but this was attributable to increases in decision caution & to slower non-decisional processes

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Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants. Mischa von Krause, Stefan T. Radev & Andreas V...

Low belief in human evolution associated with higher prejudice, racist attitudes (45 countries, diverse populations & religious settings, across time, nationally representative data); perceived similarity to animals partially mediated the link

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Syropoulos, S., Lifshin, U., Greenberg, J., Horner, D. E., & Leidner, B. (2022). Bigotry and the human–animal divide: (Dis)belief in hum...

Disapproving evaluations in online discussions provoked negative emotions, and the evaluated authors were less willing to participate in the online discussion further

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The Impact of Giving Feedback in Online Discussions: Effects of Evaluative Reply Comments on the Authors of Evaluated User Comments. Teresa ...
Friday, February 18, 2022

MicroRNAs are deeply linked to the emergence of the complex octopus brain and the cognitive success of this group

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MicroRNAs are deeply linked to the emergence of the complex octopus brain. Grygoriy Zolotarov et al. bioRxiv Feb 16 2022. https://doi.org/10...

Victimless Bodily Pleasures (like gluttony, laziness, drinking, or masturbation) Are Moralized Because They Are Perceived as Reducing Self-control and Cooperativeness and as facilitating antisocial behaviors

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Fitouchi, Léo, Jean-Baptiste André, Nicolas Baumard, and Daniel Nettle. 2022. “Harmless Bodily Pleasures Are Moralized Because They Are Perc...

21 countries: Antipathy towards the unvaccinated is larger in countries that suffered fewer COVID-19 deaths and that have higher social trust; found no evidence that unvaccinated respondents display antipathy towards vaccinated people

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Bor, Alexander, Frederik J. Jørgensen, and Michael Bang Petersen. 2022. “Prejudice Against the Vaccinated and the Unvaccinated During the CO...

Our study provides the first evidence that facial masculinity in men is an honest signal of men’s aggressive capacity and intent within same-sex contests

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Caton, Neil R., Amy Zhao, David M. G. Lewis, and Barnaby Dixson. 2022. “Facial Masculinity Predicts Men’s Actual and Perceived Aggressivenes...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Behavioral consistency in the digital age: The activity profile of our smartphones reveals a lot about us

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Behavioral Consistency in the Digital Age. Heather Shaw et al. Psychological Science, February 17, https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211040491...

Self-identified incels are resistant to seeking or accepting mental health treatment, often because they perceive that practitioners will blame them for their inceldom, rather than societal forces such as 'lookism'

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Self-reported psychiatric disorder and perceived psychological symptom rates among involuntary celibates (incels) and their perceptions of m...