Friday, March 25, 2022

Why is cognitive ability associated with psychological distress and wellbeing? Exploring psychological, biological, and social mechanisms

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Why is cognitive ability associated with psychological distress and wellbeing? Exploring psychological, biological, and social mechanisms. M...

Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–2019

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Country-specific estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion incidence: a global comparative analysis of levels in 2015–2019. Marc Bearak...

Women who divorce face greater burdens because of decreased income and almost sole caring for children; why, then, do these women initiate divorce more and fare better psychologically after a divorce than men?

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Why women choose divorce: An evolutionary perspective. Gillian Parker et al. Current Opinion in Psychology, Volume 43, February 2022, Pages ...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Symbolic quantitative cognition in wild zebrafish

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Symbolic quantitative cognition in wild zebrafish (Danio rerio). Nawaf Abdul Majeed, Dhairrya Singh, Akshita Baiju Gopal, Tanya Battiwala, N...

Association between mutations constrained in our distant past and modern human behaviours suggest traits associated with mate choice are the same today as they were thousands of generations ago... or not!

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Constrained human genes under scrutiny. A higher number of damaging variations in certain genes is associated with an increased likelihood t...

Narcissism and psychopathy were positively linked with higher sexual motivation, self-esteem, and assertiveness, & negatively related to anxiety & fear; in the end, they have more fun

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Evidence for the superordinate predictive ability of trait psychopathy: The Dark Triad and quality of sexual life. Benedikt Steininger, Jako...

Indigenous communities in Mexico are better able to escape predatory criminal rule when they are allowed to carve a space of autonomy through the institution of "usos y costumbres," without regular police, judiciary & multiparty elections

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Magaloni, Beatriz and Gosztonyi, Kristóf and Thompson, Sarah, State-Evading Solutions to Violence: Organized Crime and Governance in Indigen...

Does losing money truly hurt? The shared neural bases of monetary loss and pain

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Does losing money truly hurt? The shared neural bases of monetary loss and pain. Huixin Tan,Qin Duan,Yihan Liu,Xinyu Qiao,Siyang Luo. Human ...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Determined yet Dehumanized: People Higher in Self-control Are Seen as More Robotic

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Lapka, Samantha, Franki Y. H. Kung, Justin P. Brienza, and Abigail Scholer. 2022. “Determined yet Dehumanized: People Higher in Self-control...

Over the whole range of IQ, intelligence appears to have a small protective effect against every psychopathological condition considered

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Shevchenko, Victoria, Ghislaine Labouret, Franck Ramus, and Hugo Peyre. 2022. “Predictive Capacity of IQ and Its Constituents for Psychopath...

Chimpanzees are very interested in their conspecifics' skulls, but what goes on in the chimpanzee's mind when they encounter those skulls remains unanswerable

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Staring death in the face: chimpanzees' attention towards conspecific skulls and the implications of a face module guiding their behavio...

Do males know? Evidence-driven rainmaking of male bonobos to meet the fertile window of females

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Do males know? Evidence-driven rainmaking of male bonobos to meet the fertile window of females. Heungjin Ryu, Chie Hashimoto, David A. Hill...

6- to 11-year old Han children: The youngest children showed a default tendency of honesty and there was an overall age-related shift toward a default tendency of dishonesty

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The developmental origins of a default moral response: A shift from honesty to dishonesty. Liyang Sai, Siyuan Shang, Changzhi Zhao, Xinchen ...

Are humans ever truly altruistic? Or are all actions, however noble, ultimately motivated by self-interest?

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Belief in Altruistic Motives Predicts Prosocial Actions and Inferences. Ryan W. Carlson, Jamil Zaki. Psychological Reports, May 26, 2021. ht...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Socioeconomics and Erotic Inequity: A Theoretical Overview and Narrative Review of Associations Between Poverty, Socioeconomic Conditions, and Sexual Wellbeing

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Socioeconomics and Erotic Inequity: A Theoretical Overview and Narrative Review of Associations Between Poverty, Socioeconomic Conditions, a...