Tuesday, April 26, 2022

The female partners tended to underreport the levels of psychopathic traits in their male partner

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When the Partner’s Reality Bites: Associations Between Self- and Partner Ratings of Psychopathic Traits, Relationship Quality and Conflict T...

Exposure to The Ultimate Fighter, with fighters competing on violent mixed martial arts, significantly reduced crime; these effects are particularly evident for assault, began in the month the show premiered, and persisted for many years

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Effects of Violent Media Content: Evidence from the Rise of the UFC. Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D.Swensen, Glen R. Waddell. Journal of Health Eco...

Unsociable emerging adults reported significantly greater happiness, satisfaction with their lives, social support, and self-worth than both shy and avoidant emerging adults

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Is there an Upside to Social Withdrawal? Considering Well-Being among Socially Withdrawn Emerging Adults. Leanna M. Closson, Alicia M. McVar...

Happy people tend to be more similar to each other than unhappy people

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Iliev, Rumen, and Will Bennis. 2022. “The Convergence of Positivity: Are Happy People All Alike?” PsyArXiv. April 25. doi:10.31234/osf.io/5z...

Brazilian jeitinho, an informal problem-solving strategy that is central to Brazilian culture: We found no practically meaningful mean differences: jeitinho was endorsed equally across all regions of the country

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An Exploration of Within-Cultural Differences of a Culture-specific Syndrome: The Case of Brazilian jeitinho. Ronaldo Pilati, Ronald Fischer...

Wealth inherited in silence, with not much agitation and propaganda

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Ruchir Sharma @Financial Times: Macron had promised to reduce state spending — then a record at more than 56 per cent of gross domestic prod...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Dark Triad 18 cultures (Europe, America, Africa, Asia): Men higher than women on all traits in most cultures, gender differences generally larger in European countries (Senegal findings shows women higher in psychopathy)

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Dark Triad Traits, Social Position, and Personality: A Cross-Cultural Study. Anton Aluja et al. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Januar...

Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners

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Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners. Kristopher M. Smith, Coren L. Apicella. Jou...

Peers often recognize Nobel laureates as “Renaissance” intellects; prize committees often award their prizes for transdisciplinarity & integration; the Nobel laureates often describe their polymathy as *conscious* choice to optimize creative potential

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Polymathy Among Nobel Laureates As a Creative Strategy— The Qualitative and Phenomenological Evidence. Michele Root-Bernstein & Robert R...

After a database of gun holders was publicized, burglaries increased in zip codes with fewer gun permits, and decreased in those with more gun permits

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Guns, Privacy, and Crime. Alessandro Acquisti & Catherine Tucker. NBER Working Paper 29940, Apr 2022. DOI 10.3386/w29940 Abstract: Open ...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

The immune system can paradoxically mediate lethal effects when it is over-activated; an explanation is a function to restrict the cumulative risk of transmission of highly mutating environmental pathogens that may endanger species

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To protect or to kill: a persisting Darwinian immune dilemma. Hugo O. Besedovsky, Adriana del Rey. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, April 22 2...

The peak-end rule: When people retrospectively evaluate an experience (e.g., the previous workday), they rely more heavily on the episode with peak intensity and on the final (end) episode than on other episodes in the experience

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All’s well that ends (and peaks) well? A meta-analysis of the peak-end rule and duration neglect. Balca Alaybek et al. Organizational Behavi...

Among white Americans, therefore, Democrats experienced a substantially greater increase in distress in response to the pandemic than Republicans

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Distressed Democrats and relaxed Republicans? Partisanship and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sean Bock, Landon Schnabel. PLoS ...
Saturday, April 23, 2022

Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others

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Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others. Lee Alan Dugatkin. The University of Chicago Pr...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVIII

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVIII [...] Your Honor the young person of sensibility & beauty to whom I ask for mercy,/Su Señoría...

The Autodidactic Universe: An approach to cosmology in which the Universe learns its own physical laws

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The Autodidactic Universe. Stephon Alexander, William J. Cunningham, Jaron Lanier, Lee Smolin, Stefan Stanojevic, Michael W. Toomey, Dave We...

In high-income countries, relation of women’s labor force participation & fertility is now positive; father contribution rates to child-raising are more important for fertility; & fathers seem most interested in children in Norway, the least in Russia

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The Economics of Fertility: A New Era. Matthias Doepke, Anne Hannusch, Fabian Kindermann & Michèle Tertilt. NBER Working Paper 29948. Ap...

21% of autosomal DNA in eastern chimpanzees derives from western chimpanzee introgression & all four chimpanzee lineages share a common ancestor about 987,000 y ago (much earlier than thought), with a male reproductive & dispersal skew

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Estimating bonobo (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) evolutionary history from nucleotide site patterns. Colin M. Brand et al. ...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Parental sexual orientation and gender identity do not in themselves determine success in parenting or child development: Sexual & gender minority parents & their children have shown remarkable resilience, even in the face of many challenges

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Parental sexual orientation, parental gender identity, and the development of children. Charlotte J. Patterson. Advances in Child Developmen...

Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence Against a Systematic Price Premium for Women in personal care products

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Moshary, Sarah and Tuchman, Anna and Bhatia, Natasha, Investigating the Pink Tax: Evidence Against a Systematic Price Premium for Women in C...

Poorly governing ethnic parties persist because core supporters remain loyal in the face of poor governance because of dignity concerns, and are most likely to forgive ethnic parties for failing to address bread-and-butter issues

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Malik, Mashail, Discrimination & Defiant Pride: How the Demand for Dignity Can Create Slack for Poor Governance (February 24, 2022). SSR...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

The sexes do not differ in general intelligence, but they do in some specifics: Female advantages in writing, male advantages at higher math ability levels

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The sexes do not differ in general intelligence, but they do in some specifics. Matthew R.Reynolds, Daniel B. Hajovsky, Jacqueline M. Caemme...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Three accounts of the cognitive abilities that facilitated the emergence and transmission of cumulative culture in the recent hominin lineage

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Henrich, Heyes and Tomasello on the Cognitive Foundations of Cultural Evolution. Cecilia Heyes. September 13 2021. To appear in: The Oxford ...

Very small advantage of the religious: When comparing a maximally nonreligious atheist group against several maximally religiously affiliated groups, atheists largely showed health parity

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Throw BABE Out With the Bathwater? Canadian Atheists are No Less Healthy than the Religious. David Speed. Journal of Religion and Health, Ap...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVII

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVII [...] Your Honor whose being so far from this humble being makes Your follower crushed by aprehension...