Sunday, February 19, 2023

Are women more empathetic than men? According to EEG estimations of sex/gender differences in empathic ability, it seems they are not

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Are women more empathetic than men? Questionnaire and EEG estimations of sex/gender differences in empathic ability. Chenyu Pang, Wenxin Li,...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Contemporary sex differences in partner preferences are maintained by several psycho-biological mechanisms that evolved in conjunction, including not only sexual but also romantic attraction

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The Role of Sexual and Romantic Attraction in Human Mate Preferences. Meike Scheller et al. The Journal of Sex Research, Feb 16 2023. https:...

We appraise the empirical claims claiming that implicit bias deeply affects legal proceedings and practices, and that training can be used to reduce that bias; we find that these claims carry many indicia of unreliability

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Jason Chin, Alexander Holcombe, Kathryn Zeiler, Patrick Forscher & Ann Guo, Metaresearch, Psychology, and Law: A Case Study on Implicit ...

The fears about the menace of misinformation are primarily fed by the misconception that others are more gullible than oneself

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People believe misinformation is a threat because they assume others are gullible. Sacha Altay, Alberto Acerbi. New Media & Society, Feb...

Men and women are less alike, especially in personality traits and basic human values, in countries that have invested the most in gender equality

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Linking gender differences with gender equality: A systematic-narrative literature review of basic skills and personality. Marco Balducci. F...

Sex differences that grow larger in more gender egalitarian societies are probably sexually selected "luxuries," which are condition-dependent and blossom under favorable circumstances

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Now you see them, and now you don’t: An evolutionarily informed model of environmental influences on human sex differences. David C. Geary. ...