Friday, February 25, 2022

Liberals perceive the stock market as a more dangerous and riskier place than conservatives, which explains liberals’ greater support for regulation of the stock market, and their greater opposition to privatization of Social Security

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Fear and Loathing of Wall Street: Political Liberalism, Uncertainty, and Threat Management in a Dangerous Economic World. Michael Edem Fiagb...

Strong men are more inclined to casual sex; contrary to our predictions, socioeconomic status did not affect short-term mating orientation

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Long-Term Mating Orientation in Men: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Protection Skills, and Parenthood Disposition. Gabriela Fajardo et al...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Rivalry is usually positively related to performance; this effect is significant ; the relationship between rivalry and performance is more robust for individual rivalry compared to group rivalry

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Rivalry and performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Nir Milstein et al. Organizational Psychology Review, February 24, 2022. htt...

Rats showed bonding-like behavior to an affiliative human who repeatedly stroked the rats; also, these rats emitted distress calls, an index of negative emotion, when an affiliative human stroked another rat in front of them

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Rats emit unique distress calls in social inequality conditions. Shota Okabe, Yuki Takayanagi, Masahide Yoshida, Tatsushi Onaka. bioRxiv, Fe...

Most organizations rely on managers to identify talented workers; but because managers are evaluated on team performance, they have an incentive to hoard talented workers, thus jeopardizing the efficient allocation of talent within firms

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Talent Hoarding in Organizations. Ingrid Haegele. Feb 2022. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bnzs5h4h43i7ano/Haegele_Talenthoarding.pdf Most organi...

Strength (measured as grip strength, a highly sexually dimorphic index of physical formidability) is negatively associated with depression and accounts for some of the sex difference

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Strength is negatively associated with depression and accounts for some of the sex difference: a replication & extension. Caroline B Smi...

If gorgonzola cheese tastes like soap to you... you have an inconvenient genetic variation

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Genetic variations associated with the soapy flavor perception in Gorgonzola PDO cheese. Maria Pina Concas et al. Food Quality and Preferenc...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Altruistic behavior and moderate problem solving in birds

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Australian Magpies Gymnorhina tibicen cooperate to remove tracking devices. Joel Crampton, Celine H. Frère, Dominique A. Potvin. Feb 2022, V...

Gender differences in experience of first intercourse are among the largest in sexuality research (women recalling less pleasure & satisfaction than men); this “enjoyment gap” has not been considered in explanations of gender differences in sexual desire

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A Learning Experience? Enjoyment at Sexual Debut and the Gender Gap in Sexual Desire among Emerging Adults. Diana E. Peragine et al. The Jou...

First evidence that humans accurately forecast men’s agonistic behavior from variation in facial morphology, suggesting perceptual systems have evolved to perceive physical formidability among contemporaries and competitors

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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...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

The causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the effect of happiness on engaging in sports; correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction is greater in the young & the old

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Does Sports Make People Happier, or Do Happy People More Sports? Bruno S. Frey, Anthony Gullo. Journal of Sports Economics, January 7, 2021....

Darkness always represented danger to our ancestors and may still decrease our happiness today; exposure to sunlight was associated with happiness (but the effect was significantly weaker among more intelligent individuals)

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Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. . . especially if I’m less intelligent: how sunlight and intelligence affect happiness in modern so...

Self-attractive men tend to overestimate women’s sexual interest based on their high mating success; self-unattractive men tend to underestimate women’s sexual

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Mechanism of the association between men’s self-perceived attractiveness and sexual interest perception: the mediating paths of positive and...

Impact of a two-decade-long Islamization policy carried out by a pro-Islamist party in Turkey: Reduction in belief in God, attendance to mosques, and trust in clergy

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Can the State Make you More Religious? Evidence from Turkish Experience. Murat Çokgezen. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Febru...

People tend to find more "symmetrical" faces more "beautiful" and "attractive," but those with visual arts or dance expertise don't find symmetrical faces especially beautiful (but do still find them more attractive); it seems you can be trained to find beauty in asymmetry

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The Role of Art Expertise and Symmetry on Facial Aesthetic Preferences. Luis Carlos Pereira Monteiro et al. Symmetry 2022, 14(2), 423; Febru...

Both Democrats & Republicans discriminate & negatively stereotype job applicants with a political orientation that is dissimilar to their own; most of the time, Democrats discriminated & stereotyped applicants to a larger extent than Republicans did

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Sinclair, Samantha, Artur Nilsson, and Jens Agerström. 2022. “Judging Job Applicants by Their Politics: Effects of Target–rater Political Di...
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...