Thursday, November 24, 2022

A blind spot for attractiveness discrimination compared to more prototypical types of discrimination (i.e., gender and race discrimination)

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Jaeger, Bastian, Gabriele Paolacci, and Johannes Boegershausen. 2022. “A Blind Spot for Attractiveness Discrimination.” PsyArXiv. November 2...

Observation of Masturbation After Visual Sexual Stimuli From Conspecifics in a Captive Male Monkey

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Observation of Masturbation After Visual Sexual Stimuli From Conspecifics in a Captive Male Bearded Capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus). Paula Co...

The intergenerational transmission of political engagement is solely driven by genetic factors, except in highly politicized families

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Parental Transmission and the Importance of the (Noncausal) Effects of Education on Political Engagement: Missing the Forest for the Trees. ...

Do people believe that you can have too much money? The relationship between hypothetical lottery wins and expected happiness

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Do people believe that you can have too much money? The relationship between hypothetical lottery wins and expected happiness. Tessa Haesevo...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

The Napoleon complex, revisited: Those high on the Dark Triad traits are dissatisfied with their height and are short

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The Napoleon complex, revisited: Those high on the Dark Triad traits are dissatisfied with their height and are short. Monika A. Kozłowska, ...

Generalized tendency to make extreme trait judgements from faces

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Generalized tendency to make extreme trait judgements from faces. Atsunobu Suzuki, Saori Tsukamoto and Yusuke Takahashi. Royal Society Open ...

We know little about where users draw the line when it comes to offensive language, and what measures they wish to see implemented when content crosses the boundary of what is deemed acceptable

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Pradel, Franziska, Jan Zilinsky, Spyros Kosmidis, and Yannis Theocharis. 2022. “Do Users Ever Draw a Line? Offensiveness and Content Moderat...

Aggressive and violent behavior: Analysis of topic popularity within a child sexual exploitation Tor hidden service

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Analysis of topic popularity within a child sexual exploitation Tor hidden service. Jessica N. Owens et al. Aggression and Violent Behavior,...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

High intelligence is not linked to more mental health disorders, but is linked to less frequent general anxiety and PTSD

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High Intelligence is Not Associated with a Greater Propensity for Mental Health Disorders. Camille Michèle Williams et al. European Psychiat...

In addition to homophily, people’s social tie decisions are driven by political acrophily, the tendency to associate with others who have more extreme political views (rather than more moderate)

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Homophily and acrophily as drivers of political segregation. Amit Goldenberg, Joseph M. Abruzzo, Zi Huang, Jonas Schöne, David Bailey, Robb ...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Contrary to the deterioration hypothesis, we find that market-oriented societies have a greater aversion to unethical behavior, higher levels of trust, & are not significantly associated with lower levels of morality under any model specification

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The moral costs of markets: Testing the deterioration hypothesis. Justin Callais, Colin Harris, Ben Borchard. Journal of Economic Behavior ...

Men, but not women, in medium-status occupations report lower life satisfaction than those above or below when stuck in the middle

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Occupational status and life satisfaction in the UK: The miserable middle? Yannis Georgellis et al. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organ...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Why do storefronts remain empty for more than a year in some of the world’s highest-rent retail districts? Storefront vacancy in New York City

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Option Value and Storefront Vacancy in New York City. Erica Moszkowski & Daniel Stackman. Nov 2022. https://www.ericamoszkowski.com/rese...

Sexual arousal has a powerful effect on men’s short-term mating motivation, and that this effect is independent of intrasexual differences in personality, relationship status, and sociosexuality

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In the Heat of the Short-Term Moment: Evidence that Heightened Sexual Arousal Increases Short-Term Mating Motivation Among Men. Arnaud Wisma...