Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Masturbation Prevalence, Frequency, Reasons, and Associations with Partnered Sex in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from a U.S. Nationally Representative Survey

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Masturbation Prevalence, Frequency, Reasons, and Associations with Partnered Sex in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from a U.S....
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

It was also interesting to note that respondents thought it essentially as easy to change sexual preferences as it was the body mass index

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Beliefs about personal change. Adrian Furnham, Ryne A. Sherman. Acta Psychologica, Volume 232, February 2023, 103821. https://doi.org/10.101...

New well-being measure considers egative affect (pain, sadness, anger and worry) & positive affect (life satisfaction, enjoyment, smiling and being well-rested)

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Wellbeing Rankings. David G. Blanchflower & Alex Bryson. NBER Working Paper 30759, December 2022. DOI 10.3386/w30759. Abstract: Combinin...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Zero-sum thinking is associated with preferences for progressive economic policies in general (redistribution, affirmative action inter alia)

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Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides. Shahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva. Dec 2022. ...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Was GPT-3 a Psychopath? Evaluating Large Language Models from a Psychological Perspective

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Is GPT-3 a Psychopath? Evaluating Large Language Models from a Psychological Perspective. Xingxuan Li, Yutong Li, Linlin Liu, Lidong Bing, S...

Do you remember the hype around the gut microbiome, when it was widely believed that depletion of gut bacteria in rodents fuels anxiety and affects social behavior? Ideas left in the dust.

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A Systematic Review of the Effects of Gut Microbiota Depletion on Social and Anxiety-related Behaviours in Adult Rodents: Implications for T...

Why do Black households live in neighborhoods with much lower socioeconomic status than the neighborhoods of white households with similar incomes?

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What explains neighborhood sorting by income and race? Dionissi Aliprantis, Daniel R.Carroll, Eric R.Young. Journal of Urban Economics, Dece...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Assortative mating on blood type: Evidence from one million Chinese pregnancies

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Assortative mating on blood type: Evidence from one million Chinese pregnancies. Yao Hou et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie...

The desire to be remembered: A review and analysis of legacy motivations and behaviors

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The desire to be remembered: A review and analysis of legacy motivations and behaviors. Brett Waggoner, Jesse M. Bering. Jamin Halberstadt. ...