Thursday, May 5, 2022

Current study supports previous findings showing that people living in slums tend to report higher levels of life satisfaction than one might expect; factors other than objective poverty make life more, or less, satisfying

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Life Satisfaction among the Poorest of the Poor: A Study in Urban Slum Communities in India. Esther Sulkers & Jasmijn Loos. Psychologica...

Social desirability bias leads some unvaccinated individuals to claim they are vaccinated; conventional survey studies thus likely overestimate vaccination coverage because of misreporting

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Overestimation of COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage in Population Surveys Due to Social Desirability Bias: Results of an Experimental Methods St...

Heterosexual identified females were much more likely to report two or more lifetime same-sex partners than males

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Heterosexual Identification and Same-Sex Partnering: Prevalence and Attitudinal Characteristics in the USA. Tony Silva. Archives of Sexual ...

A Novel Human Sex Difference: Male Sclera Are Redder and Yellower than Female Sclera

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A Novel Human Sex Difference: Male Sclera Are Redder and Yellower than Female Sclera. Sarah S. Kramer & Richard Russell. Archives of Sex...

Insurance: In many golf circles, it was (and still is) customary for the lucky golfer to buy drinks for everyone in the clubhouse after landing a hole-in-one; this often resulted in prohibitively expensive bar tabs

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I loved this: In many golf circles, it was (and still is) customary for the lucky golfer to buy drinks for everyone in the clubhouse afte...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

A large majority of the population agreed that certain people had better aesthetic taste than others, only 1.3pct considered that good taste is determined by the taste of experts

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De Gustibus Est Disputandum: An Empirical Investigation of the Folk Concept of Aesthetic Taste. Constant Bonard, Florian Cova, Steve Humbert...

The relationship of facial width-to-height ratio and aggressiveness is strongest for males at 27–33 and females at 34–61

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Tracking sexual dimorphism of facial width-to-height ratio across the lifespan: implications for perceived aggressiveness. Stephanie Summers...