Friday, May 27, 2022

Rolf Degen summarizing... Long after memories have been consolidated, the hippocampus acts as a librarian in the brain, picking up the traces of the past from their storage places

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Inquiring the librarian about the location of memory. Gabriel Berdugo-Vega &Johannes Graeff. Cognitive Neuroscience, May 26 2022. https:...

Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations

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Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations. Michael Zakhari...

Does Muting Notifications Reduce Phone Use? Data suggest that users tend to pick up their phones and check for messages more often when it is in silent mode than when it is on audio-alert or vibrate modes.

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Sound of silence: Does Muting Notifications Reduce Phone Use? Mengqi Liao, S. Shyam Sundar. Computers in Human Behavior, May 26 2022, 107338...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

More nails in the monogamy coffin: Offspring in stable, monogamous gibbon families have an extra-group father in 40pct of cases; the breeding system of crested gibbons is more flexible than previously thought (understatement of the week)

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Disassociation of social and sexual partner relationships in a gibbon population with stable one-male two-female groups. Xia Huang et al. Am...

Female–male mounting in Japanese macaques: Some males may utilize FMM in a quest for their own sexual stimulation, which sometimes culminated in masturbation by the male

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When males have females on their backs: Male's tolerance, solicitation, and use of female–male mounting in Japanese macaques. Noëlle Gun...

Compared with gay and heterosexual men, asexual men demonstrated lower genital and subjective sexual arousal to the erotic films but displayed similar sexual arousal when engaging in sexual fantasy

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Patterns of Genital and Subjective Sexual Arousal in Cisgender Asexual Men. Malvina N. Skorska et al. The Journal of Sex Research, May 24 20...

Why Is Greater Income Inequality Associated with Lower Life Satisfaction and Poorer Health? Evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey, 2012

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Nettle, Daniel, and Thomas E. Dickins. 2022. “Why Is Greater Income Inequality Associated with Lower Life Satisfaction and Poorer Health? Ev...

Whole-brain dynamics differentiate among cisgender and transgender individuals

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Whole-brain dynamics differentiate among cisgender and transgender individuals. Carme Uribe et al. Human Brain Mapping, Apr 28 2022. https:/...

The superior sound quality of vinyl records is largely a matter of expectations

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Vinyl as Fine Wine: The Role of Expectation on the Perception of Music Format. Rickard Enstroem and Rodney Schmaltz. Front. Psychol., May 26...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Alex Tabarrok's review of Nate Hilger's The Parent Trap

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The Parent Trap–Review of Hilger. Review by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution, May 25 2022. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevoluti...

Atheism may serve as a cue to the endorsement of less committed mating strategies, which, in turn, prompts concerns about atheists’ trustworthiness and approval in trust domains

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Testing a perceived uncommitted mating strategy account for atheist distrust and marriage disapproval. Joshua T. Lambert, William Hart &...

Why is the marriage rate falling in East Asia? College graduate women prefer less patriarchal men, i.e. men whose mothers worked or non-Japanese if they’re in the US; given their shortage, educated East Asian women remain single

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Housewife, “Gold Miss,” and Equal: The Evolution of Educated Women’s Role in Asia and the U.S. Jisoo Hwang. May 2022. https://drive.google.c...
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...