Sunday, July 10, 2022

Sound induces analgesia through corticothalamic circuits

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Sound induces analgesia through corticothalamic circuits. Wenjie Zhou et al. Science, Jul 7 2022, Vol 377, Issue 6602, pp. 198-204, DOI: 10....

In their sexual fantasies, women have sex with about one person a day, men with about two

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Sexual Fantasies, from Part II - Copulatory Adaptations. Rui Miguel Costa. In The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual ...

Relative infrequency of males providing oral sex to the girls in preindustrial and non-Western samples

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Men’s Provisioning of Oral Sex, from Part II - Copulatory Adaptations. Gavin Vance. In The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives o...

The apparent similarity between authenticity and honesty has obscured the tension between the two constructs; but honesty can decrease authenticity and dishonesty can increase authenticity

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Yours Truly: On the Complex Relationship Between Authenticity and Honesty. Erica R. Bailey, Sheena S. Iyengar. Current Opinion in Psychology...

Visual imagery vividness declines across the lifespan; more pronounced in males

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Visual imagery vividness declines across the lifespan. Erzsébet Gulyás et al. Cortex, July 9 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.06....
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Evaluating the Replicability of Social Priming Studies: The strongest predictor of replication success was whether or not the replication team included at least one of the authors of the original paper

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Mac Giolla, Erik, Simon Karlsson, David A. Neequaye, and Magnus Bergquist. 2022. “Evaluating the Replicability of Social Priming Studies.” P...

UK: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters

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Zonszein, Stephanie, and Guy Grossman. 2022. “Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters.” OSF Preprints. July 5. ...

Women are somewhat better at divergent thinking, while men show greater variability, meaning there are more likely to fall in the extremes (& previous research say that this is hardly related to creative performance)

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Abdulla Alabbasi, A. M., Thompson, T. L., Runco, M. A., Alansari, L. A., & Ayoub, A. E. A. (2022). Gender differences in creative potent...

Nudges didn't work with vaccination intentions against COVID-19

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Can vaccination intentions against COVID-19 be nudged? Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Liam Wells. Behavioural Public P...