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Sunday, July 17, 2022

Almost everyone practices secret consumer behaviors at one time or another, consuming things/paying for services that they keep secret from those close to them; the guilt leads to greater relationship investment

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Secret consumer behaviors in close relationships. Danielle J. Brick, Kelley Gullo Wight, Gavan J. Fitzsimons. Journal of Consumer Psychology...

Two decades of infidelity research through an intersectional lens -- Complaints of the intersectionists for not being able to analyze the subjects with a lens that includes "systems of" heterosexism, cissexism, classism in the many studies that lack enough data

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“I’ve been cheated, been mistreated, when will I be loved”: Two decades of infidelity research through an intersectional lens. Dana A Weiser...

Recent evidence challenges long-standing views of male–female power relationships by showing that power ranges along a continuum from strictly male- to strictly female-dominated animal societies

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The eco-evolutionary landscape of power relationships between males and females. Eve Davidian et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Volu...

Belief in Luck and Precognition Around the World

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Belief in Luck and Precognition Around the World. Emily A. Harris, Taciano L. Milfont, Matthew J. Hornsey. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychol...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Conflicts and son preference: Micro-level evidence from 58 countries show that both incidence and intensity of conflict exposure are associated with greater son preference leading to higher prevalence of sons over daughter

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Conflicts and son preference: Micro-level evidence from 58 countries. SrinivasGoliad et al. Economics & Human Biology, Volume 46, August...

Receiving mate poaching attempts decreased the appeal of current partners while increasing the desirability of alternatives

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Temptation at your door: Receiving mate poaching attempts and perceived Partners' desirability. Gurit E. Birnbaum. Personal Relationship...

Psychopathic traits (primarily those linked to meanness and disinhibition) were associated with improved psychiatric functioning and fewer posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

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Batastini, A. B., Lester, M. E., Poindexter, E., & Bozeman, A. R. (2022). Trauma, psychopathic traits, and mental health outcomes: A pro...

In contrast to young children, monkeys are unable to perceive illusory faces in inanimate objects

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Flessert, M., Taubert, J., & Beran, M. J. (2022). Assessing the perception of face pareidolia in children (Homo sapiens), rhesus monkeys...
Friday, July 15, 2022

Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered; most methodologists greatly overestimate the statistical power of political science research

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Quantitative Political Science Research is Greatly Underpowered. Vincent Arel-Bundock et al. Jul 5 2022. https://osf.io/hsgkp Abstract: We...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

We, especially those in high quality relationships, respond positively to being outperformed by our romantic partner. Reasons: greater empathy; relationship as a source of self-affirmation; finding partner's success beneficial for oneself

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Thai, Sabrina. 2022. “Comparing You, Me, and Us: Social Comparisons in the Context of Close Relationships.” PsyArXiv. July 14. doi:10.31234/...

Face-to-face sex positions are more likely to stimulate the clitoris, especially when the woman is above

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Coital positions and clitoral blood flow: A biomechanical and sonographic analysis. K. Lovie, A. Marashi. Sexologies, July 5 2022. https://d...

Caring for children makes people all over the world more conservative, and most of the association between age and social conservatism is accounted for by parenthood

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Kerry, Nicholas, Damian Murray, Laith Al-Shawaf, Carlota Batres, Khandis Blake, Youngjae Cha, Zoran Pavlović, et al. 2022. “Parenthood and P...

People intuitively prefer invisible-hand explanations of social phenomena over explanations that resort to intended goals

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Jonušaitė, Izabelė, and Tomer D. Ullman. 2022. “The Invisible Hand as an Intuitive Sociological Explanation.” PsyArXiv. July 13. doi:10.3123...

Philosophers have long debated whether moral virtue is necessary for happiness, or whether morality and happiness are incompatible. Yet, little empirical research addresses this fundamental question: Are moral people happier?

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Sun, Jessie, Wen Wu, and Geoffrey Goodwin. 2022. “Moral People Tend to Be Happier.” PsyArXiv. July 13. doi:10.31234/osf.io/sd8t4 Abstract: P...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The role of cognitive control differs across people: For cheaters, it helps them to sometimes be honest, while for those who are generally honest, it allows them to cheat on occasion to profit from small dishonesty

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Cognitive control and dishonesty. Sebastian P.H. Speer, Ale Smidts, Maarten A.S. Boksem. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, July 13 2022. https:/...

We exhibit a reticence bias, the incorrect belief that we are more likable if we speak less than half the time in conversation with a stranger, & halo ignorance, the belief that our speaking time should depend on goals (to be liked vs. to be found interesting)

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Speak Up! Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations. Quinn Hirschi, Timothy D. Wilson, Daniel T. Gilbert. Personality and Soc...

We are constantly comparing not only ourselves but also the persons in our social environment with others, and we make these comparisons in such a way that those close to us do well

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Thai, Sabrina, and Penelope Lockwood. 2022. “Social-judgment Comparisons in Daily Life.” PsyArXiv. July 12. doi:10.31234/osf.io/83tze Abstra...

We document a robust underestimation of how much other people appreciate being reached out to

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Liu, P. J., Rim, S., Min, L., & Min, K. E. (2022). The surprise of reaching out: Appreciated more than we think. Journal of Personality ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Rough sex is most commonly associated with curiosity and a need for novelty, with only a small subset motivated by aggression

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Rough Sex and Pornography Preferences: Novelty Seeking, Not Aggression. Rebecca L. Burch, Catherine Salmon. EvoS Journal. Jul 2022. https://...

People who enter into a new romantic relationship often experience that they are desired by others more than they were before

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16 - Shifts in Partner Attractiveness: Evolutionary and Social Factors. Chp 16 from Part III - Postcopulatory Adaptations. Rebecca L. Burch ...

Hormonal contraceptives as disruptors of competitive behavior

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Hormonal contraceptives as disruptors of competitive behavior: Theoretical framing and review. Lindsie C.Arthur, Kathleen V. Casto, Khandis ...

Myth or measurement: What does the new minimum wage research say about minimum wages and job loss in the United States?

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Myth or measurement: What does the new minimum wage research say about minimum wages and job loss in the United States? David Neumark, Peter...
Monday, July 11, 2022

It’s Time to Streamline the Hiring Process. By Atta Tarki, Tyler Cowen, and Alexandra Ham

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It’s Time to Streamline the Hiring Process. Atta Tarki, Tyler Cowen, and Alexandra Ham. Harvard Business Review, July 11, 2022. https://hbr....

When the data-generating processes for scarce and ambiguous observations are complex and opaque, a naive observer can improve a bias-variance tradeoff by starting with a simple, underspecified explanation that can be seen as "supernatural"

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Lightner, Aaron, and Edward H. Hagen. 2022. “All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious: Supernatural Explanations as Abstract and Useful...

Unionization increases firms’ costs and operating leverage and, consequently, crowds out investments that potentially impact quality; unions may compromise quality by hurting employee morale and by resisting technological upgrades in the firm

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Labor Unions and Product Quality Failures. Omesh Kini, Mo Shen, Jaideep Shenoy, Venkat Subramaniam. Management Science, Aug 27 2021. https:...

The erotic appeal of the human-typical face-to-face posture during sex may related to the fact that human faces have evolved to become more behind-like

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From 2016... Kret ME, Tomonaga M (2016) Getting to the Bottom of Face Processing. Species-Specific Inversion Effects for Faces and Behinds i...
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 ...
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