Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Individuals steadily have grown less conscientiousness and more neurotic since the beginning of the pandemic

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Berg, Cameron. 2022. “Personality Trends over the COVID-19 Pandemic.” PsyArXiv. June 8. doi:10.31234/osf.io/9mu46 Abstract: The COVID-19 p...

Stronger sex drive in men compared to women, with a medium-to-large effect size: Men more often think and fantasize about sex, more often experience sexual affect like desire, and more often engage in masturbation than women

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Frankenbach, Julius, Marcel Weber, David D. Loschelder, Helena Kilger, and Malte Friese. 2022. “Sex Drive: Theoretical Conceptualization and...

Jazz musicians were less conscientious and more open to experience than classical musicians

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The musician’s personality: Do personality traits vary according to ensemble membership? Zahava L Heydel, Randyl D Smith, Nels Grevstad. Psy...

The evolutionary novelty of childcare by and with strangers: Net of education, earnings, sex, current marital status, and number of children, more intelligent British parents were more likely to resort to paid childcare at ages 33 & 42

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The evolutionary novelty of childcare by and with strangers. Satoshi Kanazawa. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Volume 221, Septemb...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Unambiguous chickens were not present until ∼1650 to 1250 BCE in central Thailand; production and storage of rice & millet may have acted as a magnet, thus initiating the chicken domestication process

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The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens. Joris Peters et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (24) e...

Replicated in the Chinese context: Ethical reflection (college professors) generally has no positive effect on moral behavior

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The moral behavior of ethics professors: A replication-extension in Chinese mainland. Tiantian Hou, Xiaojun Ding & Feng Yu. Philosophica...

Habitual well-digging in a rainforest-living group of East African chimpanzees, which may have been imported into the community’s behavioural repertoire by an immigrant female

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Well-digging in a community of forest-living wild East African chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii ). Hella Péter, Klaus Zuberbühle...

We show that firms with more Machiavellian CEOs will have lower costs than other firms in the market, one reason why a personal characteristic that is usually seen as problematic for organizations is rather common in their upper ranks

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Bargaining your way to success: The effect of Machiavellian chief executive officers on firm costs. Tessa Recendes, Federico Aime, Aaron D. ...
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...