Thursday, January 26, 2023

Men's sexual desire fluctuated as much as women's in the short term, while women's desire was more variable in the long term

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Does Sexual Desire Fluctuate More Among Women than Men? Emily A. Harris, Matthew J. Hornsey, Wilhelm Hofmann, Patrick Jern, Sean C. Murphy, ...

Liberal political views may be seen as a subtle signal of wealth in today's society; the shift of wealthier people to the political left may coincide with a working-class shift to the right

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Are Political Views the New Luxury Goods? Bence Nanay. Psychology Today, January 25, 2023. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/psychol...

Male flies that had got the brush-off from a female behaved more aggressively towards their fellow males

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Sexual rejection modulates social interaction and reproductive physiology. Liora Omesi, Mali Levi, Elia Dayan, Yong-Kyu Kim, Lital Barak-Buc...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Reading for pleasure in adolescence did not yield any benefits for mental health in a large longitudinal study

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Murray, Aja L., Patrick Errington, Yi Yang, Daniel Mirman, Ingrid Obsuth, Tom Booth, Denis Ribeaud, et al. 2023. “Is Reading for Pleasure in...
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...