Saturday, July 2, 2022

Just Seconds of Laughter Reveals Relationship Status: Laughter with Friends Sounds More Authentic , Relaxed and Less Vulnerable than Laughter with Romantic Partners

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Just Seconds of Laughter Reveals Relationship Status: Laughter with Friends Sounds More Authentic and Less Vulnerable than Laughter with Rom...

Among r/AntiVegan users there is a group of ex-vegans seeking health advice & social support; it was observed an enhanced group commitment over time, including an increase in group-focused language & a decrease in cognitive processing

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‘Against the cult of veganism’: Unpacking the social psychology and ideology of anti-vegans. Rebecca Gregson, Jared Piazza, Ryan L.Boyd. App...

Males reported more positive outcomes from threesomes than did females, particularly when engaging with two members of the other sex

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An Empirical Investigation of Variations in Outcomes Associated with Heterosexual Adults’ Most Recent Mixed-Gender Threesome Experience. Ash...
Friday, July 1, 2022

Users with toxic usernames produce more toxic content (of various types) than those with neutral usernames

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Namespotting: Username toxicity and actual toxic behavior on reddit. Rafal Urbaniak et al. Computers in Human Behavior, July 1 2022, 107371....
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Informal access to medical expertise and services (like being parents of a doctor) is not an important cause of differences in health care use and mortality

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Artmann, Elisabeth, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw. 2022. "Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from...

Sleep deprivation led to larger impairments in those with higher fluid intelligence, evident for arithmetic ability, episodic memory, and a trend for spatial working memory

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Balter, Leonie J., Tina Sundelin, Benjamin C. Holding, Predrag Petrovic, and John Axelsson. 2022. “Intelligence Predicts Better Cognitive Pe...

To receive credit and to create favorable impressions, individuals need to share information about their past accomplishments; claiming credit to demonstrate competence, however, can harm perceptions of warmth and likability

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VanEpps, Eric and Hart, Einav and Hart, Einav and Schweitzer, Maurice E., Dual-promotion: Bragging Better by Promoting Peers (June 3, 2022)...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Reading language of the eyes

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Reading language of the eyes. Marina A. Pavlova, Arseny A. Sokolov. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, June 25 2022, 104755. https://...

Sexual humor was used to distinguish between primary and secondary sexual rewards; the amygdala serves as a reward hub, especially in processing sexual humor appreciation

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Differential Neural Substrates for Responding to Monetary, Sexual Humor, and Erotic Rewards. lYu-Chen Chan, Wei-Chin Hsu, Tai-LiChou. Biolog...

In termites: Ancestral sex-role plasticity facilitates the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour

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Ancestral sex-role plasticity facilitates the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour. Nobuaki Mizumoto, Thomas Bourguignon, Nathan W. Bailey...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

The replication supports the claim that it is possible to plant a false memory of a childhood event

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Murphy, Gillian, Caroline Dawson, Lisa Ballantyne, Liz Barrett, Conor Cowman, Christopher Fitzsimons, Charlotte Huston, et al. 2022. “Lost i...

Participants for whom religion was “not at all important” in their lives had a tenfold risk of developing Parkinson's disease (vs. very important); plus there was a dose–response relationship between decreasing religiosity & more PD risk

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Religiosity and Risk of Parkinson’s Disease in England and the USA. Abidemi I. Otaiku. Journal of Religion and Health, Jun 28 2022. https://...