Saturday, August 27, 2022

Those who commit suicide and take animals to their deaths are much more likely to kill dogs than cats

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Peticide: An Analysis of Online News Media Articles of Human Suicide Involving Pet Animals. Janette Young,James Andrew Oxley,V. Tamara Montr...

Religious people reported having less sex on average (mainly driven by the significantly lower sex frequency among non-cohabiting religious individuals); also, religiosity was linked with overall higher levels of sex life satisfaction

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Religiosity, Sex Frequency, and Sexual Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from the Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (...

The relationship between health and political ideology begins in childhood: Healthy children more likely to express conservative ideology as older adults, independent of personality, academics, and later-life heath

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The relationship between health and political ideology begins in childhood. Viji Diane Kannan et al. SSM - Population Health, August 24 202...

A meta-analytic review of the gender difference in leadership aspirations: Men exhibit higher aspirations than women; the effect size does not decrease with increasing year of study publication

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A meta-analytic review of the gender difference in leadership aspirations. Ekaterina Netchaeva et al. Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume...

For 31.2% of the music plays, people did not recognize highly salient animal voices (regarding the type of acoustic source as well as the frequency spectra) when executing a counting task

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The unnoticed zoo: Inattentional deafness to animal sounds in music. Sandra Utz, Friedericke Knauss & Claus-Christian Carbon. Attention,...
Friday, August 26, 2022

Across 45 countries in 11 world regions, male and female faces rated as more attractive were rated as more confident, emotionally stable, intelligent, responsible, sociable, and trustworthy

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Examining the “attractiveness halo effect” across cultures. Carlota Batres & Victor Shiramizu. Current Psychology, Aug 25 2022. https://...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Rolf Degen summarizing... Deepfakes are much less impactful than the scaremongering in the media might lead you to believe

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You Won't Believe What They Just Said! The Effects of Political Deepfakes Embedded as Vox Populi on Social Media. Michael Hameleers, Ton...

We review the evidence linking gender to dishonesty and conclude that men are often more dishonest than women, especially in competitive settings where lies advance self-interest

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Gender Similarities and Differences in Dishonesty. Jessica A. Kennedy, Laura J. Kray. Current Opinion in Psychology, August 24 2022, 101461....

We experimentally manipulated the reported age of unfamiliar technology and found that people evaluate it more favorably when it is described as originating before (vs. after) their birth

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The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology. Adam H. Smiley, Matthew Fisher. Psychological Science,...

Contrary to findings from previous correlational studies, we do not find any significant impact of social media usage as it was defined in our study on well-being and academic success

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Effects of restricting social media usage on wellbeing and performance: A randomized control trial among students. Avinash Collis, Felix Egg...