Monday, April 4, 2022

Found occupational stereotypes to differ substantially on both warmth & competence dimensions, with Firefighters presenting the most favorable and Politicians and Unemployed people showing the least favorable evaluations

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Stereotype content of occupational groups in Germany. Maria-Therese Friehs, Felicia Aparicio Lukassowitz, Ulrich Wagner. Journal of Applied ...

The lack of sexual activity made male singles more dissatisfied than female singles

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Satisfaction with Singlehood and Sexual Activity. Bente Træen & Ingela Lundin Kvalem. Sexuality & Culture, Apr 3 2022. https://link....

Compared with men’s tweets, a higher proportion of women’s tweets are retweets, and that the majority of women’s retweets originate from men

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From 2021... Tweeting and Retweeting: Gender Discrepancies in Discursive Political Engagement and Influence on Twitter. Lingshu Hu,Michael W...

Accurate sex classification from neural responses to sexual stimuli

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Accurate sex classification from neural responses to sexual stimuli. Vesa Putkinen, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani,  View ORCID ProfileTomi Karjalaine...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Male participants sacrificed more, in terms of physical pain, for their romantic partners and opposite-sex friends than female participants

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Beyond reciprocity: Relational sacrifices in romantic partners. Ke Yan et al. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, April 1, 2022. h...

The largest parks, greater than 100 acres, had the highest mean happiness benefit, possibly because that larger parks provide greater opportunities for mental restoration and separation from the taxing environment of the city

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Schwartz AJ, Dodds PS, O’Neil-Dunne JPM, Ricketts TH, Danforth CM (2022) Gauging the happiness benefit of US urban parks through Twitter. PL...

Those in the prosocial condition rated the role of genetics in causing the behavior as significantly greater than did those in the antisocial condition, due to the tendency to view prosocial behavior as more natural and more aligned with one’s true self

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Asymmetric genetic attributions for one’s own prosocial versus antisocial behavior. Matthew S. Lebowitz, Kathryn Tabb & Paul S. Appelbau...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Their studies revealed a robust belief that “life gets better” over time (i.e., recollected past < current < anticipated future life satisfaction) in nations around the world, in relation to both objective & subjective indicators of societal-level functioning

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Busseri, M. A. (2022). The global belief that “life gets better and better”: National differences in recollected past, present, and anticipa...

Factors proposed to explain impersonal cooperation across societies (institutions (rule of law), religion (belief in God as a third-party punisher), cultural beliefs (trust) & values (collectivism), and ecology (relational mobility)) are not so important

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Spadaro, G., Graf, C., Jin, S., Arai, S., Inoue, Y., Lieberman, E., Rinderu, M. I., Yuan, M., Van Lissa, C. J., & Balliet, D. (2022). Cr...