Friday, March 3, 2023

Pet ownership was most prevalent amongst Whites (70.4%), lowest amongst African Americans (29.0%)

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Examining U.S. pet ownership using the General Social Survey. Jennifer W. Applebaum, Chuck W. Peek & Barbara A. Zsembik. The Social Scie...

Women’s orgasms appear to have a cultural competency component, wherein women need some kind of knowledge that enables women to “know” what an orgasm is and to “recognize” it

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Women’s Experiences of Different Types of Orgasms—A Call for Pleasure Literacy? Katharina Weitkamp & Fabienne Seline Verena Wehrli. Inte...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Men working non-daytime/rotating shifts and those with physically demanding jobs have higher sperm concentration and total sperm count as well as higher estradiol and total testosterone concentrations

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Occupational factors and markers of testicular function among men attending a fertility center. Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón, Paige L Williams, Ir...

This article argues that “open source intelligence (OSINT)” is a fundamentally incoherent concept that should be abandoned

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There Is No Such Thing as Open Source Intelligence. Joseph M. Hatfield. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Mar 1...

Happiness was associated with worse reasoning; happiness may not be predictive of the rate of cognitive decline over time

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The association between happiness and cognitive function in the UK Biobank. Xianghe Zhu, Martina Luchetti, Damaris Aschwanden, Amanda A. Ses...

Migrants at Sea: Search and Rescue Operations induced more crossings in dangerous conditions, offsetting their intended safety benefits; despite the increased mortality, these operations likely increased aggregate migrant welfare

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Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations. Claudio Deiana, Vikram Maheshri, Giovanni Mastrobuoni. American Ec...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Opposed to expectations, individuals with a higher propensity to engage in casual sex paid greater attention to pathogen cues

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An Eye Tracking Study Examining the Role of Mating Strategies, Perceived Vulnerability to Disease, and Disgust in Attention to Pathogenic Cu...

Parents experienced a large increase in life satisfaction and happiness in the years surrounding the birth of their first child; most well-being changes bounced back in 5 years

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Asselmann, E., & Specht, J. (2023). Baby bliss: Longitudinal evidence for set-point theory around childbirth for cognitive and affective...

Monkeys: Our data support that masturbation in males may be a sexual outlet for individuals that do not have a current sexual partner, while in females it may function in mate attraction by advertising receptivity

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Non-Reproductive Sexual Behavior in Wild White-Thighed Colobus Monkeys (Colobus vellerosus). Julie A. Teichroeb, Stephanie A. Fox, Shelby Sa...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Both left and right tend to perceive tweets that contradict their own political views as outpourings of bots

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Political Bot Bias in the Perception of Online Discourse. Shane Schweitzer, Kyle S. H. Dobson, and Adam Waytz. Social Psychological and Pers...
Monday, February 27, 2023

We found that a large proportion of Japanese women and men report that they have never had sexual intercourse

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Sexual Behaviors among Individuals Aged 20-49 in Japan: Initial Findings from a Quasi-Representative National Survey, 2022. Cyrus Ghaznavi e...

Animosity, Amnesia, or Admiration? Mass Opinion Around the World Toward the Former Colonizer

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Animosity, Amnesia, or Admiration? Mass Opinion Around the World Toward the Former Colonizer. Andy Baker, David Cupery. British Journal of P...