Monday, August 22, 2022

Once amongst the tallest people in the world, the generations of bison-reliant people born after the slaughter lost their entire height advantage

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The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains. Donn. L. Feir, Rob Gillezeau & Maggie E.C. Jones. NBER Working ...

Women were seven times more likely to lose work during the nationwide lockdown, and conditional on losing work, eleven times more likely to not return to work subsequently, compared to men; and on and on

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Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market. Rosa Abraham, Amit Basole & Surbhi Kesar. Economia ...

Men's almost universally greater tendency to overestimate their abilities is likely the heritage of a long evolutionary urge to achieve the upper hand in the mating game

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The Cocksure Conundrum: How Evolution Created a Gendered Currency of Corporate Overconfidence. Richard Ronay, William W. Maddux & Willia...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During WWII

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New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During WWII. Bruno Caprettini, Hans-Joachim Voth. The Quarterly Jou...

Theolinguistic Study of Directive Speech Acts Performed by an Islamic Preacher in Friday Sermon in Bandung, Indonesia

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Theolinguistic Study of Directive Speech Acts Performed by Islamic Preacher in Friday Sermon in Bandung Indonesia. Cipto Wardoyo, Lina Marli...

People fail to give prosocial input (complimenting someone), because of overestimation of the costs of doing so (e.g., making recipients uncomfortable); this reluctance to give prosocial input results in a short supply of kindness

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Kindness in Short Supply: Evidence for Inadequate Prosocial Input. Jennifer E. Abel et al. Current Opinion in Psychology, August 20 2022, 10...

Due to the male backlash channel, women in employment in India face significantly higher levels of intimate partner violence compared to women involved in domestic work only

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Male Backlash and Female Guilt: Women’s Employment and Intimate Partner Violence in Urban India. Sowmya Dhanaraj & Vidya Mahambare. Femi...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Novel hypotheses that answer key questions about the evolution of sexual reproduction

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The origination events of gametic sexual reproduction and anisogamy. Yukio Yasui & Eisuke Hasegawa. Journal of Ethology, Aug 19 2022. ht...