Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Results showed that boys as young as age 3 generally valued strength more than girls: boys, on average, said it was more important to be strong than girls did, & were more likely to prefer strength-related occupations than girls

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Early Gender Differences in Valuing Strength. May Ling D. Halim, Dylan J. Sakamoto, Lyric N. Russo, Kaelyn N. Echave, Miguel A. Portillo ...

Individuals with higher income may exhibit profiles of adult personality development that more closely resemble aspects of a healthy personality

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Income moderates changes in big-five personality traits across eighteen years. Vincent YS Oh, Ismaharif Ismail, Eddie MW Tong. European Jour...

Women are unhappier than men in anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, & anger; are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives such as democracy, the economy, the state of education and health services

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The Female Happiness Paradox. David G. Blanchflower & Alex Bryson. NBER Working Paper 29893.  March 2022. https://www.nber.org/papers/w2...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Genetic Link to Fear Memories Found Hiding Within Mice's "Junk DNA"

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ADRAM is an experience-dependent long noncoding RNA that drives fear extinction through a direct interaction with the chaperone protein 14-3...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

A decade ago, now-seminal work showed that children are strikingly unskilled at simple tool innovation; since then, a surge of research has replicated these findings across diverse cultures

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After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next? Bruce S. Rawlings. Child Development Perspectives, March 24 2022. https://doi.org/10.111...

Professors are generally not seen as highly narcissistic, though they are viewed as more narcissistic than elementary school teachers

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Perceptions of narcissism in college professors. Harry M. Wallace, Alejandro Carrillo & Jack Kelley. The Journal of Social Psychology, M...

While 'misery loves company' is indeed borne out among certain populations within the sample, we find stronger and more widespread support for the opposite phenomenon, suggesting rather that ‘happiness hates company’

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Does misery love company? An experimental investigation. Katherine Farrow, Gilles Grolleau, Lisette Ibanez. Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 7...

People with gender disphoria, particularly male-to-female, want to have children more than cisgenders

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Fertility Desire and Motivation Among Individuals with Gender Dysphoria: A Comparative Study. Emre Durcan et al. Journal of Sex & Marita...

We stick to our romantic relationships even when we discover "dealbreakers" in a partner that presumably make the person unsuitable as a mate

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Dealbreakers, or dealbenders? Capturing the cumulative effects of partner information on mate choice. Samantha Joel, Nicolyn Charlot. Journa...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Like adults, children aged 4-8 years and 8-14 years also perceived many illusory faces in objects to have a gender and had a strong bias to see them as male rather than female, regardless of their own gender identification

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Wardle, Susan G., Louise Ewing, George L. Malcolm, Sanika Paranjape, and Chris I. Baker. 2022. “Children Perceive Illusory Faces in Objects ...

Sexual availability cues were judged most effective flirtation tactic when employed by women in short-term mating contexts, while laughing or giggling at someone's jokes was judged an effective flirtation tactic for both sexes

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Perceived Effectiveness of Flirtation Tactics: The Effects of sex, Mating Context and Individual Differences in US and Norwegian Samples. Le...

Social media use is not linked to greater belief in political misinformation

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Social Media and Belief in Misinformation in Mexico: A Case of Maximal Panic, Minimal Effects? Sebastián Valenzuela, Carlos Muñiz, Marcelo S...
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 ...