Tuesday, January 24, 2023

The domains in which people most strongly chose mates who were similar to themselves were politics, religion, intelligence and substance use

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A comprehensive meta-analysis of human assortative mating in 22 complex traits. Tanya B Horwitz, Matthew C Keller. bioRxiv, Mar 20 2022. htt...

Humans show higher levels of fearfulness than other great apes, which has been adaptive for care-giving

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The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care. Tobias Grossmann. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 18 2022. https://www.c...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Despite years of training in clinical psychology students, no significant differences were found in self-reported mentalization capacity between first and last year students

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Does clinical training improve mentalization skills in future therapists? A comparison of first and last year students of clinical psycholog...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Chess tournaments: We find that women make more mistakes when playing against men; men, however, play equally well against male and female opponents; we also find that men persist longer before losing to women

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Gender, competition, and performance: Evidence from chess players. Peter Backus, Maria Cubel, Matej Guid, Santiago Sánchez‐Pagés, Enrique Ló...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

This study contributes preliminary evidence that associations between moderate alcohol consumption and reduced risk for depression may reflect genuine causal effects

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Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Depression: A Marginal Structural Model Approach Promoting Causal Inference. Rachel Visontay et al. The Ame...

The richer the country and the higher its average neuroticism score, the higher its rate of vaccination (at least one dose)

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Neuroticism predicts national vaccination rates across 56 countries. Nicolas Vermeulen. Current Psychology, Jan 21 2023. https://link.spring...

Digital natives' early and continuous exposure to pornography: Porn literacy seems an ability that they developed over time, which allowed them to critically engage with pornography and observe how it had affected them

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Digital natives' experience of early and continuous exposure to pornography. Fredrika Hedberg. Master's Thesis, Sociology, Lund Univ...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence from US Bans on Cousin Marriage

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Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence from US Bans on Cousin Marriage. Arkadev Ghosh, Sam Il Myoung Hwang, Munir Squires. January 18, 2...

Growing evidence suggests that intergroup contact, psychology’s most-researched paradigm for reducing prejudice, has the “ironic” effect of reducing support for social change in disadvantaged groups

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Reimer, N. K., & Sengupta, N. K. (2023). Meta-analysis of the “ironic” effects of intergroup contact. Journal of Personality and Social ...

How and Why We Want to Be More Moral; as known, the bigger predictor of moral motivation was the extent to which we believed that making the change would have positive consequences for our own well-being

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How and Why People Want to Be More Moral. Jessie Sun, Joshua Wilt, Peter Meindl, Hanne M. Watkins, Geoffrey P. Goodwin. Journal of Personali...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Hatred of the opposing political camp fuels susceptibility to misinformation that favors one's own side—both among Democrats and Republicans—and particularly among the politically sophisticated

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Affective Polarization and Misinformation Belief. Libby Jenke. Political Behavior, Jan 18 2023. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s1...

Effects of a 7-Day Pornography Abstinence Period on Withdrawal-Related Symptoms in Regular Pornography Users

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Effects of a 7-Day Pornography Abstinence Period on Withdrawal-Related Symptoms in Regular Pornography Users: A Randomized Controlled Study....