Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Parental presence intended to soothe children at bedtime buffers adverse effect of mothers’ parenting stress; findings challenge recommendations of parenting in Western cultures children do not depend on parental presence to fall asleep

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Jahng, K. E., & Kim, E. (2022). Effects of parental bedtime involvement during children’s bedtime. Journal of Family Psychology, Mar 202...

People’s aesthetic tastes are not arbitrarily different from each other in different sensory modalities but vary primarily along only a single dimension across sights and sounds: how similar a person’s taste is to the average taste

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“Taste typicality” is a foundational and multi-modal dimension of ordinary aesthetic experience. Yi-Chia Chen et al.  Current Biology, March...

Selfless individuals were happier and that more selfless moments of an individual were also happier moments

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Selflessness Meets Higher and More Stable Happiness: An Experience Sampling Study of the Joint Dynamics of Selflessness and Happiness. Nicol...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Roughly one-third of men disliked their nude appearance, compared to approximately half of women

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Demographic and sociocultural predictors of sexuality-related body image and sexual frequency: The U.S. Body Project I. David A. Frederick e...

Boring People: Stereotype Characteristics, Interpersonal Attributions, and Social Reactions... Being seen as a bore may come with substantial negative consequences

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Boring People: Stereotype Characteristics, Interpersonal Attributions, and Social Reactions. Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg, Eric R. Igou, Mehr P...

These results suggest that 2-year-old children have an intrinsic concern that individuals be helped whereas 5-year-old children have an additional, strategic motivation to improve their reputation by helping

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Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood. Robert Hepach, Jan M. Engelmann, Esther Herrmann...

A higher level of economic development is strongly associated with a greater incidence of love in narrative fiction; these authors think the relationship is causal

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The cultural evolution of love in literary history. Nicolas Baumard, Elise Huillery, Alexandre Hyafil & Lou Safra. Nature Human Behaviou...

We Don't Know When We Are Good at Spotting Liars

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Said, Nadia, Sarah Volz, Marc-André Reinhard, Patrick Müller, and Markus Huff. 2022. “Do People Know When They Are Good at Spotting Liars? –...

Affective polarization increases over time, but also as people age; age-related increases in affective polarization occur as a function of increases in partisan strength, and for Republicans, social sorting

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Affective Polarization: Over Time, Through the Generations, and During the Lifespan. Joseph Phillips. Political Behavior, Mar 7 2022. https:...