Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Mandarin Chinese speakers overestimated how well native English-speaking Americans understood what they said in Chinese, & understood their intentions, even when informed that the listeners knew no Chinese

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Lau, B. K. Y., Geipel, J., Wu, Y., & Keysar, B. (2022). The extreme illusion of understanding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Gener...

Men who pervasively gaze at women’s bodies more likely to assume women invite/tolerate rough sexual conduct toward them; women who pervasively gaze at men’s bodies more likely to attribute responsibility to women for their role in sexual assault

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Body Gaze as a Marker of Sexual Objectification: A New Scale for Pervasive Gaze and Gaze Provocation Behaviors in Heterosexual Women and Men...

Trend that seems to be increasing: Many women in the world’s richer countries appear to seek Mr. Perfect, while their male counterparts are more willing to accept Ms. Goodenough

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Skirbekk, V. (2022). Finding a Mate: Contemporary Partnership and Conception. Chapter in: Decline and Prosper!. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Pp...

More life satisfaction: The "sickly sweet" smell of death (putrescine) may prompt individuals to love their lives more

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Smelling Death, Loving Life: the Impact of Olfactory Chemosignals on Life Satisfaction. Michael D. Barnett, Ben K. Mokhtari & Jenna M. M...

From a Survey and Twin Study: The belief that human attributes are determined by biology belongs to the few psychological traits that are not influenced by genes

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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Biological Essentialism, Heuristic Thinking, Need for Closure, and Conservative Values: Insights Fro...

Participants with dark personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy) didn't feel like they needed to reduce them, while the others would have liked even a little more of them

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Lighten the darkness: Personality interventions targeting agreeableness also reduce participants' levels of the dark triad. Nathan W. Hu...
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...