Monday, May 2, 2022

Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance? It seems not.

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Can people detect the trustworthiness of strangers based on their facial appearance? Bastian Jaeger et al. Evolution and Human Behavior, May...

At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on average over four times larger than if they had been treated as white; for typical Hispanic applicants the increase is 2.4 times

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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences. Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler & Tyler Ransom. NBER Workin...

Both genders applied self-deprecating double standards when viewing overweight and average-weight bodies; women, but not men, also showed self-deprecating double standards when viewing the ideal body and their own body

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Giving a Body a Different Face—How Men and Women Evaluate Their Own Body vs. That of Others. Mona M. Voges, Hannah L. Quittkat, Benjamin Sch...
Sunday, May 1, 2022

Following an incident of misconduct, female financial advisers are 20% more likely to lose their jobs and 30% less likely to find new jobs; gap is not driven by gender differences in occupation, productivity, nature of misconduct, or recidivism

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When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct. Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru. Journal of Political Economy, ...

Combining data from exams taken at Swedish military enlistment with earnings records from the tax register, we document an increase in the relative labor market return to logical reasoning skill as compared to vocabulary knowledge

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Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence Get access Arrow. Santiago Hermo, Miika Päällysaho, David Se...

Individual factors, particularly low status, and social forces, such as a high degree of status inequality, female empowerment, and the ease of coordination through social media, give rise to misogynistic extremism

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Lindner, Miriam. 2022. “Alone Together and Angry: Misogynistic Extremism as Coalitional Bargaining for Sexual Access.” PsyArXiv. April 30. d...

The Gendered Consequences of Risk-Taking at Work: No evidence for overall gender differences in initial risk-taking

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The Gendered Consequences of Risk-Taking at Work: Are Women Averse to Risk or to Poor Consequences? Thekla Morgenroth, Michelle K. Ryan, Cor...

Warfare among foragers who lived among foragers and were not subject to control by a state: Conflict occurred on all scales ranging from small-scale raids to battles involving hundreds of warriors on each side; large-scale conflict caused many casualties and much mortality; larger scale conflict was more common between members of different ethnolinguistic or tribal groups than within such groups

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Large-scale cooperation in small-scale foraging societies. Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Rev...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Men prefer dimorphism in female faces more than women do, wom prefer dimorph in male faces more than men; both men&wom prefer symmetric faces equally in same- & opposite-sex targets; no indication pathogen cues activate either preference

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Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report. Jo...