Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Feminine traits (facial structure with large eyes, full lips, & an oval face shape, & a curvaceous body with relatively large breasts, a narrow waist, & full hips & buttocks) are often claimed to cue women’s reproductive potential; no evidence of this association

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Lidborg, Linda H., and Lynda Boothroyd. 2022. “Do Women’s Morphological Traits Predict Reproductive Outcomes? A Systematic Review.” PsyArXiv...

We establish a robust and economically significant negative association between the tightness and breadth of kin-based institutions—their kinship intensity—and economic development

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Kin-based institutions and economic development. Duman Bahrami-Rad, Jonathan Beauchamp, Joseph Henrich, Jonathan Schulz. SSRN August 25, 202...

In a sample of 290 Canadian heterosexual young adults, unrestricted sociosexuality positively predicted same-sex indirect aggression (malicious gossip, social exclusion, and guilt induction) and intrasexual competitiveness

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Intrasexual Competitiveness Mediates the Link Between Unrestricted Sociosexuality and Indirect Aggression. Adam C. Davis, Graham Albert ...

Ideal Life Expectancy: The Determinants, Processes, and Consequences of the Desire to Live a Long Life

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Ideal Life Expectancy: The Determinants, Processes, and Consequences of the Desire to Live a Long Life. Fiona Sophia Rupprecht . Philosophis...
Monday, August 29, 2022

College Kids' Unemployment & Coresidence With Parents: Declining availability of 'matched jobs' that require a college degree explains two thirds of the rise in unemployment and coresidence 2013-1996

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Boomerang College Kids: Unemployment, Job Mismatch and Coresidence.Stefania Albanesi, Rania Gihleb & Ning Zhang. NBER Working Paper 3039...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Competitiveness and Jealousy Across the Ovulatory Cycle: A Hormone-Based analysis reveals no compelling evidence for (hormone-related) cycle shifts in intrasexual competitiveness, attractiveness ratings, or jealousy

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Women’s Intrasexual Competitiveness and Jealousy Across the Ovulatory Cycle: A Hormone-Based Study. Julia Stern, Tabea Hildebrand, Kathleen ...

Wives on average reported lower daily sexual desire for their spouse; relational (marital satisfaction, commitment), cognitive (sex-role identification, stress, self-esteem), and emotional (mood, depressive symptoms) factors did not matter

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An Empirical Investigation of the Roles of Biological, Relational, Cognitive, and Emotional Factors in Explaining Sex Differences in Dyadic ...
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,...