Saturday, June 11, 2022

Higher neuroticism was related to lower grip strength ; higher extraversion, openness, & conscientiousness were associated with higher grip strength across most samples

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Five-factor model personality traits and grip strength: Meta-analysis of seven studies. Yannick Stephan et al. Journal of Psychosomatic Rese...

Contrary to Sigmund Freud's suggestion, people who achieve extraordinary careers are not "wrecked by success"

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Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry. Harrison J. Kell et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science, June 10, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745...

Cisgender men most like "I am currently single, over past 4 years I have not been in any relationships"; cisgender women/transwomen/transmen/nonbinary most like "I am currently single; over past 4 years I have been in two relationships"

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Is the Grass Really Greener? The Influence of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation on Mate Copying Behaviors. Alyce S. Jarrett & Ryan ...

People lie only to a limited extent to gain certain material advantages, and sometimes they even lie to their own disadvantage to protect their social image

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The optics of lying: How pursuing an honest social image shapes dishonest behavior. Mika Guzikevits, Shoham Choshen-Hillel. Current Opinion ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Traditional creative occupations ('artists' & 'authors') were associated with elevated genetic risk for a range of psychiatric disorders, but similar, or greater elevations were seen for religious, helping and teaching professions

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Is an elevated family-genetic risk for major psychiatric disorders specific to creative occupations? Kenneth S. Kendler et al. Psychological...

We found women’s ideas to be more original during ovulation compared to non-fertile phases of the ovulatory cycle

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Enhanced Originality of Ideas in Women During Ovulation: A Within-Subject Design Study. Katarzyna Galasinska and Aleksandra Szymkow. Front. ...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

The belief in free will can be manipulated, showing an increase of deterministic beliefs, but there are no downstream consequences for world views, attitudes or behavior

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Manipulating Belief in Free Will and Its Downstream Consequences: A Meta-Analysis. Oliver Genschow et al. Personality and Social Psychology ...

Progressives selected a more unflattering portrait of a typical conservative face than traditional liberals

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The Progressive Values Scale: Assessing the Ideological Schism on the Left. Travis Proulx et al. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,...

The effects of computer-mediated communication on well-being get smaller the closer one looks at them

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Computer-Mediated Communication and Well-Being in the Age of Social Media: A Systematic Review. Andrew C High et al. Journal of Social and P...
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...