Saturday, May 14, 2022

Beauty is associated with lower support for redistribution and with a higher likelihood of believing that economic success depends more on individual effort rather than external circumstances

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Attractiveness and Preferences for Redistribution. Andrea Fazio. Economics & Human Biology, May 11 2022, 101145. https://doi.org/10.101...

Interpersonal distancing is attentionally demanding and hence vulnerable to unintentional lapses due to inattention: 97pct of all participants reported unintentional lapses due to hyperfocus and spontaneous mind-wandering, inter alia

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Brown, Chris R. H., Dr, and Sophie Forster. 2022. “Lapses in the Person Radar: Attentional Traits Predict Difficulty in Interpersonal Distan...

Sex-differentiated components of sexual morality: Women expressed more moral condemnation of short-term sex, and especially transactional sex-for-money exchanges; sexual infidelity more morally condemned by women than by men

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Asao, K., Crosby, C. L., & Buss, D. M. (2022). Sexual morality: Multidimensionality and sex differences. Evolutionary Behavioral Science...

“Meating halfway”: Exploring the attitudes of meat eaters, veg*ns, and occasional meat eaters toward those who eat meat and those who do not eat meat

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“Meating halfway”: Exploring the attitudes of meat eaters, veg*ns, and occasional meat eaters toward those who eat meat and those who do not...

Across cultures, women are much higher than men on fearful personality traits. Why? The sex difference in fear is mediated by that in physical strength.

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Physical Strength Partly Explains Sex Differences in Trait Anxiety in Young Americans. Nicholas Kerry, Damian R. Murray. Psychological Scien...
Friday, May 13, 2022

Honor cultures research centered almost exclusively on men and physical aggression as a means of reputation defense; present research indicates honor endorsing women also active in reputation maintenance and defense (spreading rumors, social exclusion)

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Honor-endorsing women and relational aggression: Evidence for the presence of feminine aggression norms in southern U.S. women. Stephen Fost...

Higher levels of perceived tightness in own jurisdiction were associated with higher levels of mask wearing & handwashing during COVID-19, more endorsement of future policy changes to contain the pandemic, higher reported feelings of responsibility for one’s life

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Does State Tightness-Looseness Predict Behavior and Attitudes Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA? Ashley Gilliam et al. Journal of Cr...

Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis

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Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis. Sheina Lew-Levy et al. Front. Psychol., May 11 2022 | http...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCXLI

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCXLI [...] Your Honor of the great fire in the heart, L'amour, la tendresse, la gratitude que j...

In aged mice, the kinds of memory problems common in old age can be reversed, and all it takes is some cerebrospinal fluid harvested from the young

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Young CSF restores oligodendrogenesis and memory in aged mice via Fgf17. Tal Iram et al. Nature May 11 2022. https://www.nature.com/articles...

Serbian Roma: Girls were the preferred sex, owing to expected fitness benefits; Roma fathers tend to bias their investment towards taller, more endowed children, because of greater fitness pay-off

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Paternal investment, stepfather presence and early child development and growth among Serbian Roma. Jelena Čvorović. Evolutionary Human Scie...