Sunday, February 27, 2022

Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts

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Depression and suicidality as evolved credible signals of need in social conflicts. Michael R. Gaffney et al. Evolution and Human Behavior, ...

Facial width (not width relative to height) may be a key to facial sex differences (appears linked in men to other possibly sexually-selected traits)

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Caton, Neil R., and Barnaby Dixson. 2022. “Beyond Facial Width-to-height Ratios: Bizygomatic Width Is Highly Sexually Dimorphic When Adjusti...

Explanations of misfortune: Themes include intervention of superhuman agents (gods, ancestors), witchcraft, karma; seen in evolutionary context, members are required to offer support, willing to offer such support to maintain reputation as cooperators

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Why we blame victims, accuse witches, invent taboos and invoke spirits: A model of strategic responses to misfortune. Pascal Boyer. Forthcom...

Across 47 societies (statistically controlling for wealth), a societal emphasis on socializing children for religious faith attenuates links of personal religiosity with happiness, trust of strangers, and trust of known others

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Societal Emphasis on Religious Faith as a Cultural Context for Shaping the Social-Psychological Relationships Between Personal Religiosity a...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

Endogenous androgens show a moderate association with a better sexual function in women; however, the role of psychological, relational and other hormonal factors should not be overlooked

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Maseroli E and Vignozzi L. Are Endogenous Androgens Linked to Female Sexual Function? A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Sex Med 2021;XX...

In anthropomorphic terms we could say that the female rat invites the male to copulate, i.e. she expresses her consent to having sex, and the male can accept or not accept that invitation by pursuing or not pursuing the female

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Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story? Anders Ågmo, Ellen Laan. Neurosci...

A large majority of the population would respond positively to the discovery of microbial extraterrestrial life, independent of factors such as personality or political orientation

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Kwon, Jung Yul, Hannah Bercovici, Katja Cunningham, and Michael E. W. Varnum, PhD. 2017. “How Will We React to the Discovery of Extraterrest...

When advising others, participants favored deontological options more, recommending these options over the more utilitarian options that participants chose for themselves

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Polman, E., & Ruttan, R. L. (2022). Making utilitarian choices but giving deontological advice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Gene...

Impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa: This causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban; also found a sharp drop in violent crimes

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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition. Barron, Kai / Parry, Charles D.H. / Bradshaw, Debbie...

In academic environments: Evidence that pay transparency causes significant increases in both the equity and equality of pay, & significant and sizeable reductions in the link between pay & individually measured performance

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The influence of pay transparency on (gender) inequity, inequality and the performance basis of pay. Tomasz Obloj & Todd Zenger. Nature ...
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...