Thursday, March 17, 2022

Multiple pathways to paternal care in primates: The case studies we have presented here challenge the assumption that male parental care & extended breeding bonds are strictly limited to species that live in pairs or form cooperatively breeding groups

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Pathways to paternal care in primates. Stacy Rosenbaum, Joan B. Silk. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, March 15 2022. h...

Genetic variation in a bitter taste receptor gene alter early smoking behaviors in adolescents and young adults

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Does genetic variation in a bitter taste receptor gene alter early smoking behaviors in adolescents and young adults? Alaa Alsaafin et al. A...

Conservatives are less likely than liberals to accept welfare handouts for themselves unless the welfare program has a work requirement policy

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Goenka, Shreyans and Thomas, Manoj, Are Conservatives Less Likely Than Liberals to Accept Welfare? The Psychology of Welfare Politics (April...

Contrary to the social brain hypothesis, new work suggests that ecological factors, rather than social complexity, best predict bigger brain size in primates

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Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology. Alex R. DeCasien, Robert A. Barton, James P. Higham. Trends in Cognitive S...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Unflattering computer feedback was rated as less fair than human feedback

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When humans and computers induce social stress through negative feedback: Effects on performance and subjective state. S. Thuillard et al. C...

The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated

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The claim that personality is more important than intelligence in predicting important life outcomes has been greatly exaggerated. Chen Zism...

What Are the Necessary Conditions for Wisdom? Examining Intelligence, Creativity, Meaning-Making, and the Big-Five Traits

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What Are the Necessary Conditions for Wisdom? Examining Intelligence, Creativity, Meaning-Making, and the Big-Five Traits . Mengxi Dong, Mar...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Unconvenient scientific evidence: Harm over-estimators were more supportive of censoring scientific research; & those more offended by scientific findings reported greater difficulty understanding them (“motivated confusion”)

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Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence. Cory Clark, Maja Graso, Ilana Redstone, Philip E. Tetlock. March 2022. DOI:1...

Extensive research suggests that short-term meditation interventions may hold therapeutic promise for a wide range of psychosocial outcomes; methodologically rigorous study finds null effect of mindfulness & compassion interventions

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Kaplan, Deanna M., Matthias R. Mehl, Steven P. Cole, and Charles Raison. 2022. “Implications of a “null” Randomized Controlled Trial of Mind...

Biological processes have provided new insights into diverging labour market trajectories; higher testosterone levels reduce the risk of becoming or staying unemployed

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In And Out Of Unemployment –Labour Market Transitions And The Role Of Testosterone. Peter Eibich t al. Economics & Human Biology, March ...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Men who got negative romantic feedback reported less support for casual sex & for increasing the minimum wage

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Changes in Positive Affect Due to Popularity in an Experimental Dating Context Influence Some of Men’s, but Not Women’s, Socio-Political Att...

Agreeableness contributes to higher commitment to the spouse, but appears to make people more reluctant to express their sexual needs and desires

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Big Five personality traits and sex. Uwe Jirjahn & Martha Ottenbacher. Journal of Population Economics, Mar 14 2022. https://link.spring...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Pictorial representations (like company logos, emojis, photos) are very popular nowadays; we show that people are perceived as less powerful when using pictures vs. words

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Medium is a powerful message: Pictures signal less power than words. Elinor Amit, Shai Danziger, Pamela K. Smith. Organizational Behavior an...

Maoist China: During the embryonic stage of communist centralization, the productivity of manufacturing sectors more than doubled; this growth was largely obtained by the exploitation from agriculture and low compensation for workers

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Chi, Shawn, Rob Peter to Pay Paul: The Maoist Growth of a Socialist Economy (January 1, 2022). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4006757 ...

Cats understand human pointing gestures. My view: When cats ignore us or do what they like even against our protests/commands, they know what they are doing.

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Assessing cats' (Felis catus) sensitivity to human pointing gestures. Margaret Maeses, Claudia A.F. Wascher. bioRxiv, Mar 13 2022. https...

Greater political knowledge is associated with greater intensity of emotions against opponents

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The more you know, the less you like: A comparative study of how news and political conversation shape political knowledge and affective pol...

Our findings suggest that raters cannot reliably detect women's ovulatory timing from their scent attractiveness

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Does scent attractiveness reveal women's ovulatory timing? Evidence from signal detection analyses and endocrine predictors of odour att...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Ways to Greater Happiness: Policy strategies could be investing in happiness research, support of vulnerable people & promoting voluntary work and supporting non-profits; individual strategies could be investing in social networks, doing meaningful things & caring for one’s health

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Ways to Greater Happiness: A Delphi Study. Dan Buettner, Toben Nelson & Ruut Veenhoven. Journal of Happiness Studies volume 21, pages 27...

World-wide Evidence for Gender Difference in Sociality: approx 50% more female-female than male-male pairs are observed in public spaces globally

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World-wide Evidence for Gender Difference in Sociality. Tamas David-Barrett. arXiv, Mar 6 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02964 One of the ...

People are usually off the mark when it comes to assessing how much and in what direction public attitudes toward contentious issues have changed

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Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change. Adam M. Mastroianni and Jason Dana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...

Women were more likely than men to believe in or fear all nonmaterial or spiritual supernatural phenomena, as well as Atlantis

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Supernatural Sociology: Americans’ Beliefs by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Education. Tony Silva, Ashley Woody. Socius: Sociological Research...