Saturday, May 28, 2022

The bottom of the income distribution reports 10% more items as essential than the top

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Income and views on minimum living standards. David W. Johnston, Nidhiya Menon. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 199,...

Moderate Alcohol Use Is Associated with Reduced Cardiovascular Risk in Middle-Aged Men Independent of Health, Behavior, Psychosocial, and Earlier Life Factors

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Moderate Alcohol Use Is Associated with Reduced Cardiovascular Risk in Middle-Aged Men Independent of Health, Behavior, Psychosocial, and Ea...

Gender differences in competitiveness, with men more willing to enter competitions than women, are larger in more gender egalitarian countries

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When do we observe a gender gap in competition entry? A meta-analysis of the experimental literature. Eva Markowsky, Miriam Beblo. Journal o...

Women derive more happiness and life satisfaction from meaningful experiences than men whereas men derive more happiness and satisfaction with life from pleasurable experiences than women

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Experiences and happiness: The role of gender. J. Joško Brakus, Weifeng Chen, Bernd Schmitt, Lia Zarantonello. Psychology & Marketing, M...

Following George Floyd's death, arrests and police-initiated calls decreased by 62 and 69 percent, respectively; lower-level “quality of life” arrests decreased by 72.7pct

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Mikdash, Maya, and Reem Zaiour. 2022. "Does (All) Police Violence Cause De-policing? Evidence from George Floyd and Police Shootings in...
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:/...