Monday, June 6, 2022

Spain & Portugal: Across a wide array of attitudes towards COVID-19, women were more likely to hold stronger, wider, and more cautionary attitudes about the virus

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Opinions and options about COVID-19: Personality correlates and sex differences in two European countries. Sónia Brito-Costa, Peter Karl Jon...

Can Basic Education be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya

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Gray-Lobe, Guthrie and Keats, Anthony and Kremer, Michael and Mbiti, Isaac and Ozier, Owen W., Can Education be Standardized? Evidence from ...

The YouTube recommendation algorithm does push real users into mild ideological echo chambers, where users receive different recommendations distributions, but doesn't happen that many go down `rabbit holes' that lead them to extreme content

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Brown, Megan and Bisbee, James and Lai, Angela and Bonneau, Richard and Nagler, Jonathan and Tucker, Joshua Aaron, Echo Chambers, Rabbit Hol...

Liberals were more prone than conservatives to perceive a tweet with the opposing political view as a bot

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Why Some Are Better than Others at Detecting Social Bots: Comparing Baseline Performance to Performance with Aids and Training. Ryan John Ke...

Prenatal maternal stress: Pregnant women especially vulnerable to chronic stress; potential challenging situations such as body image issues, lifestyle changes, fluctuating hormones, induce lasting changes to fetal stress response ("fetal programming")

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Prenatal stress perturbs fetal iron homeostasis in a sex specific manner. Peter Zimmermann, Marta C. Antonelli, Ritika Sharma, Alexander Mül...

Maximizing men ("No matter what I do, I have the highest standards for myself") who had attractive wives more satisfied at start of their marriages; maximazing women who had high status husbands experienced less steep declines in satisfaction over time

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Maximizing Tendencies in Marriage: Accentuating the Implications of Readily Observable Partner Characteristics for Intimates’ Satisfaction. ...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

Among singles, no significant differences in psychological distress by sexual identity; among partnered respondents, queer/pansexual women reported the highest distress & lesbian/gay women reported the lowest distress

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Wilson, B. D. M., Krueger, E. A., Pollitt, A. M., & Bostwick, W. B. (2022). Partnership status and mental health in a nationally represe...

Masculine norms of emotional control predicted whether men followed CDC recommendations suggests that noncompliance with those recommendations may be a way of men demonstrating that they are not afraid

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Mahalik, J. R., Di Bianca, M., & Harris, M. P. (2022). Conformity to masculine norms and men’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Psych...

The presence of feminine males in Samoa & Mexico, when masculine men are willing to engage in sexual activity with them, induces women to compete intersexually in comparable ways to intrasexual competition with rival women

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Intra- and Intersexual Mate Competition in Two Cultures: A Comparison of Women’s Response to Mate Competition with Women and Gender-Nonbinar...