Sunday, May 8, 2022

From 2020... Being interviewed by a woman increases men’s odds of expressing strong support for gender equality by 37% and women’s odds by 17%

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Gender Attitudes in Africa: Liberal Egalitarianism Across 34 Countries   Arrow. Maria Charles. Social Forces, Volume 99, Issue 1, September ...

People who are afraid to take sides in contentious issues often end up being caught between two stools, losing the trust of all parties involved

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Silver, I., & Shaw, A. (2022). When and why “staying out of it” backfires in moral and political disagreements. Journal of Experimental ...

Monozygotic female twins raised apart: In contrast with previous research, the twins' general intelligence and non-verbal reasoning scores showed some marked differences

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Personality traits, mental abilities and other individual differences: Monozygotic female twins raised apart in South Korea and the United S...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Himba: Despite aspirational preferences, couples who are more closely matched in term of mate value reported greater relationship quality, measured through frequency of interactions, reported sexual histories, and partnership length

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The effect of mating market dynamics on partner preference and relationship quality among Himba pastoralists. Sean Prall, Brooke Scelza. Sci...

How anger works

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How anger works. Daniel Sznycer, Aaron Sell, Alexandre Dumont. Evolution and Human Behavior, December 3 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evol...

Wives became more jealous than husbands when their partner got a new platonic friend

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Sucrese, A. M., Burley, E. E., Perilloux, C., Woods, S. J., & Bencal, Z. (2022). Just friends? Jealousy of extramarital friendships. Evo...

The memories that people would most like to erase from their minds were remarkably often related to the experience of shame

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The memories that people would save or erase differ from their most positive and negative memories on function, emotion and correspondence w...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXIX

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXIX [...] Your Honor Whose value would increase if compared with the world's jewels, and these would d...

Humans have domesticated over 1000 plant, animal, fungal and bacterial species, some just for their good looks

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What is domestication? Michael D. Purugganan. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 6 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.04.006 High...

The economic costs of crime in North America attributable to people with psychopathic personality disorder

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Gatner, D. T., Douglas, K. S., Almond, M. F. E., Hart, S. D., & Kropp, P. R. (2022). How much does that cost? Examining the economic cos...

Antibody patents are being struck down left and right, victims of the Federal Circuit’s recent shift to strengthen two doctrinal areas of patent law—enablement and the written description requirement

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Lemley, Mark A. and Sherkow, Jacob S., The Antibody Paradox (February 11, 2022). Yale Law Journal, Forthcoming, SSRN http://dx.doi.org/10.21...

Special forces commandos have discernible personality profiles, with low neuroticism, more conscientiousness, and markedly less openness to experience

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Huijzer, R., Jeronimus, B. F., Reehoorn, A., Blaauw, F. J., Baatenburg de Jong, M., de Jonge, P., & den Hartigh, R. J. R. (2022). Person...
Friday, May 6, 2022

In search of gratification: Psychological Benefits of Believing Conspiracy Theories

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Psychological Benefits of Believing Conspiracy Theories. Jan-Willem van Prooijen. Current Opinion in Psychology, May 5 2022, 101352. https:/...

Small effects: Adolescents with more extraverted mothers were more likely to be sexually active; sexually active girls were also more likely to use contraception if their fathers scored higher on conscientiousness

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Parent personality traits and adolescent sexual behaviour: Cross-sectional findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Mark...

Male witches were mostly accused by males (blood-relatives or not), often in connection to disputes over wealth & status; accusations of women were mainly from kin by marriage (mostly husbands & co-wives)

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Same-sex competition and sexual conflict expressed through witchcraft accusations. Sarah Peacey, Olympia L. K. Campbell & Ruth Mace. Sci...