Tuesday, May 24, 2022

There is a widespread belief that Republicans and Democrats are worlds apart with respect to their preferences for redistribution

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Nathan, Brad, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, and Alejandro Zentner. 2022. "Is the Partisan Divide Real? Polarization in Preferences for Redistr...

It is more plausible that better-adjusted individuals are more likely to get married than the social causation hypothesis (marriage causes improvement in mental & physical health)

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Huntington, C., Stanley, S. M., Doss, B. D., & Rhoades, G. K. (2022). Happy, healthy, and wedded? How the transition to marriage affect...

Intelligent people are hardly any more likely to positively evaluate intelligence in their partners

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Eastwick, P. W., Finkel, E. J., & Joel, S. (2022). Mate evaluation theory. Psychological Review, May 2022. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

Rolf Degen summarizing... There are veritable yea-sayers who tend to answer affirmatively to questions, regardless of context

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Who's a yea-sayer? Habitual trust and affirmative response behaviour. Ann-Christin Posten, Janina Steinmetz- European Journal of Social ...

Men Are Not Aware of and Do Not Respond to Their Female Partner's Fertility Status

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Schleifenbaum, Lara, Ruben C. Arslan, Julia Stern, Tanja M. Gerlach, Larissa L. Wieczorek, Julie C. Driebe, and Lars Penke. 2022. “Men Are N...

When our mind misjudges because we have principles, not like others: Hosting the homeless in a hotel is bad, leaving them in the streets is sanity

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Alex Tabarrok on this (Politico, Feb 4 2022, https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/04/new-york-affordable-housing-program-00005049 ): [...]...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Introverts experienced less frequent and less enjoyable uplifts in their daily lives

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Introversion and the Frequency and Intensity of Daily Uplifts and Hassles. Natasha N. DeMeo et al. Journal of Personality, May 14 2022. http...

Surprise, Gene Editing Can Change The Social Behavior of Animals in Unexpected Ways: "The counterintuitive findings tell us we need to start thinking about the actions of these receptors across entire circuits of the brain and not just in specific brain regions." :-(

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CRISPR-Cas9 editing of the arginine–vasopressin V1a receptor produces paradoxical changes in social behavior in Syrian hamsters. Jack H. Tay...

Compared with compatriots of the same age, women with at least one sibling who died in childhood face 39% higher odds of having experienced at least one own-child death, or 7 percentage points at age 49

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Intergenerational Persistence in Child Mortality. Frances R. Lu & Tom Vogl. NBER Working Paper 29810. March 2022. DOI 10.3386/w29810 Abs...
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 ...