Monday, April 11, 2022

We found that only 37% of asexual adults had concordant sexual and romantic orientations and that most asexual adults self-identify as either sex-neutral (41%) or sex-averse (54%)

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Concordance Between Romantic Orientations and Sexual Attitudes: Comparing Allosexual and Asexual Adults. Alyssa N. Clark & Corinne Zimme...

Time after time: Factors predicting murder series' duration

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Time after time: Factors predicting murder series' duration. April Miin Miin Chai et al. Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 81, July–Au...

Psychopathy and crimes against humanity: A conceptual and empirical examination of human rights violators

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Psychopathy and crimes against humanity: A conceptual and empirical examination of human rights violators. Robert D. Hare et al. Journal of ...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

For the world has always been like a yoke around my neck—My delight’s in the day of my downfall, my downfall the day of my greatest delight

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CCLXIV Your Honor the good friend who relieves pain/Su Señoría el buen amigo que alivia el dolor, My only king, these poems* by Shlomoh ibn ...
Friday, April 8, 2022

2003-2018: Psychiatrists had the highest suicide rate among health professionals

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Li, T., Petrik, M. L., Freese, R. L., & Robiner, W. N. (2022). Suicides of psychologists and other health professionals: National Violen...

Contrary to previous research findings, our findings suggest that third-party observers cannot reliably detect attraction in others

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Can third-party observers detect attraction in others based on subtle nonverbal cues? Iliana Samara, Tom S. Roth, Milica Nikolic, Eliska Pro...

Even when all explicit gender-identifying language was stripped from the recommendation letters, a machine learning algorithm was able to predict applicant gender at a rate better than chance

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Text Mining for Bias: A Recommendation Letter Experiment. Charlotte S. Alexander. American Business Law Journal, April 6 2022. https://doi.o...

The road to dietary sins is paved with the whisper of justifying self-talk

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Examining dietary self-talk content and context for discretionary snacking behaviour: a qualitative interview study. Jordan Rose, Rebecca Pe...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Cultural Variation in Communication Directness in Romantic Relationships: Chinese preferred indirect (vs. direct) communication more than European Americans; effect was more strongly pronounced in positively valenced situations

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How You Talk About It Matters: Cultural Variation in Communication Directness in Romantic Relationships. Fiona Ge, Jiyoung Park, Paula R. Pi...

Illusory improvement: Participants remembered their romantic relationship one year ago more negatively they had reported it originally, creating a sense of improvement over time

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Projecting current feelings into the past and future: Better current relationship quality reduces negative retrospective bias and increases ...