Sunday, May 22, 2022

US, UK, Germany: Workers feel as secure as they ever have in the last thirty years, partly because job insecurity is very cyclical and (pre-COVID) unemployment rates very low, but there is also no clear underlying trend towards increased subjective measures of job insecurity

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Subjective Job Insecurity and the Rise of the Precariat: Evidence from the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. Alan Manning, Gr...

Dark Triad traits accelerate psychological violence toward romantic partners

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Do the Dark Triad and psychological intimate partner violence mutually reinforce each other? An examination from a four-wave longitudinal st...

Women are less accepting than men of higher-ranked same-sex individuals; more generally however, women and men prefer male bosses

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Human Females as a Dispersal-Egalitarian Species: A Hypothesis about Women and Status. Joyce F. Benenson. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physio...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Personality stability increases mostly until 25 yo; emotional stability increased consistently and more substantially across the lifespan than currently believed

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Bleidorn, Wiebke, Ted Schwaba, Anqing Zheng, Christopher J. Hopwood, Susana Sosa, Brent Roberts, and Daniel A. Briley. 2022. “Personality St...

In the dating market, people compete ferociously for mates with qualities that do not increase one’s chances of romantic happiness

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Adapted from Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. Wired, May 2022. https:/...

In mammalian societies... How reproductive control promotes social control

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The eco-evolutionary landscape of power relationships between males and females. Eve Davidian et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May ...

14 measures shown produce sex-based sexuality differences: In every measure, replicated previous findings comparing heterosexual men & women; more diffs between heterosexual & bisexual men; patterns in women more pronounced, bisexuals play larger role

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Sex and Sexual Orientation Differences in Sexuality and Mate Choice Criteria . Bogdan Kostic & John E. Scofield . Archives of Sexual B...

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXXI

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXXI [...] Your Honor the little good wizard-magician,/Su Señoría el mago y brujito bueno, I cry fo...
Friday, May 20, 2022

Unlike doctors and surgeons, psychologists are more likely to present the left cheek on their professional photographs, perhaps signalling (intuitively) their empathy

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Putting your best face forward: Posing biases in psychologists’ online portraits. Ven Yi Hew & Annukka K. Lindell. Laterality. Asymmetri...

The strongest, and most reliable, predictor of perceived danger of misinformation is the perception that others are more vulnerable to misinformation than the self; believing that societal problems have simple solutions/clear causes is consistently, weakly, associated

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Altay, Sacha, and Alberto Acerbi. 2022. “Misinformation Is a Threat Because (other) People Are Gullible.” PsyArXiv. May 20. doi:10.31234/osf...

People spontaneously looked more and for longer at the sexually provocative images when their eyes were camouflaged by sunglasses (which we surreptitiously monitored)

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De-evolving human eyes: The effect of eye camouflage on human attention. Veronica Dudarev, Manlu Liu, Alan Kingstone. Cognition, Volume 225,...

Consistent with beauty-blind admissions, alumni's beauty is uncorrelated with the rank of the school they attended in China; in the US, White men who attended high-ranked schools are better looking, especially attendees of private schools

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The college admissions contribution to the labor market beauty premium. David Ong. Contemporary Economic Policy, April 18 2022. https://doi....
Thursday, May 19, 2022

For the majority of Americans, partisanship is either equally positive and negative or more positive than negative

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Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship. Amber Hye-Yon Lee, Yphtach Lelkes, Carlee B. Hawkins & Alexande...