Sunday, July 31, 2022

Violence against all, pregnant women & children included: Organized violence from the rulers

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This is human nature... From Maribel Fierro's Violence against women in Andalusi historical sources third/ninth-seventh/thirteenth centu...

Individuals tend to conform to the group's moral judgments even without the presence of the group's members, but people with utilitarian inclinations conform to a greater extent and more frequently than people with deontological inclinations

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The Effects of Individual Moral Inclinations on Group Moral Conformity. I. Z Marton-Alper, A. Sobeh, S.G Shamay-Tsoory. Current Research in ...

Adolescent and young adult daily mobility patterns were moderately to highly heritable

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Individual differences in adolescent and young adult daily mobility patterns and their relationships to big five personality traits: a behav...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

From 2012... Party Evolutions in Moral Intuitions: A Text-Analysis of US Political Party Platforms from 1856-2008

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Motyl, Matt, Party Evolutions in Moral Intuitions: A Text-Analysis of US Political Party Platforms from 1856-2008 (October 8, 2012). SSRN: ...

Women tend to consume luxury goods as a way to signal their mating standards to men and thereby deter undesirable pursuers

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The Mate Screening Motive: How Women Use Luxury Consumption to Signal to Men. Qihui Chen, Yajin Wang, Nailya Ordabayeva. Journal of Consumer...

The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous, Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain

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Budish, Eric B., The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and Anonymous, Decentralized Trust on the Blockchain (June 27, 2022). University of Chicago,...

Countries with a larger fraction of people with very strict civic norms have proportionally more societal-level rule violations; if perceived norms are so strict that they do not differentiate between small and large violations, then, conditional on a violation occurring, a large violation is individually optimal

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Social norms and dishonesty across societies. Diego Aycinena et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 28, 2022. 119 (31...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Toxoplasma-infected women scored higher in tribalism and lower in cultural liberalism, compared with the Toxoplasma-free control group; infected men scored higher in economic equity

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Le Petit Machiavellian Prince: Effects of Latent Toxoplasmosis on Political Beliefs and Values. Robin Kopecky et al. Evolutionary Psychology...

We present a 72-year-old man with a unique profile of disorientation in time, such that he split each day into two, 12-h intervals: He had two sets of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, hence the designated “split-day syndrome.”

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"Split-day syndrome," a patient with frontotemporal dementia who lives two days in the span of one: a case report and review of ar...

Our results provide little support for common models of solidarity and suggest that hazing may not be the social glue it has long been assumed to be

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Does hazing actually increase group solidarity? Re-examining a classic theory with a modern fraternity. Aldo Cimino, Benjamin J.Thomas. Evol...

Sharing Online Content — Even Without Reading It — Inflates Subjective Knowledge

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Ward, Adrian F. and Zheng, Frank and Broniarczyk, Susan M., I Share, Therefore I Know? Sharing Online Content — Even Without Reading It — In...

Introduction of Sharia law in northern Nigeria: Decreases in infant mortality thru increased vaccination rates, duration of breastfeeding and prenatal health care; there were also increases in primary school enrollment

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Islamic Law and Investments in Children: Evidence from the Sharia Introduction in Nigeria. Marco Alfano. Journal of Health Economics, July 2...

Instead of religious skepticism and a related increase in progressivism...: UFO sightings promote a more conservative worldview

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Kitamura, Shuhei. 2022. “UFOs: The Political Economy of Unidentified Threats.” OSF Preprints. July 29. doi:10.31219/osf.io/tme8f Abstract: I...

Political candidates: More differentiation between positive than negative options; after exceeding a certain, relatively small level of negativity, people do not see any further increase in negativity

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Is good more alike than bad? Positive-negative asymmetry in the differentiation between options. A study on the evaluation of fictitious po...