Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Deceptive affection is strategically expressed under relational threat—but not towards partners with low mate value

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Deceptive affection is strategically expressed under relational threat—but not towards partners with low mate value. Neil R. Caton and Sean ...

Rather than generating the filter bubbles that pundits keep hallucinating, googling for political information drives individuals toward sources that are different to their routinary visits

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Search engine effects on news consumption: Ranking and representativeness outweigh familiarity in news selection. Roberto Ulloa and Celina S...
Monday, March 6, 2023

The use of social media only stirs up political anger in people who strongly embrace like-minded content, while even heavy users without such blinders become less angry

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Birds of a Feather Get Angrier Together: Social Media News Use and Social Media Political Homophily as Antecedents of Political Anger. Ziche...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Severe Sexual Sadism scores were positively associated with strategic emotional intelligence (the ability to understand and manage emotions), but were not significantly related to Experiential EI

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Emotional intelligence in incarcerated sexual offenders with sexual sadism. Daniella N. Greenfield et al. Journal of Sexual Aggression, Volu...
Saturday, March 4, 2023

Sexual conflict can arise when males evolve traits that improve their mating success but in doing so harm females; by reducing female fitness, male harm can diminish offspring production in a population and even drive extinction

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Male harm offsets the demographic benefits of good genes. Ewan O. Flintham, Vincent Savolainen, and Charles Mullon.  Proceedings of the Nati...

The acute effects of alcohol on social cognition: High alcohol doses tend to have negative effects, low doses may have some positive effects, e.g., on emotion recognition

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The acute effects of alcohol on social cognition: A systematic review of experimental studies. Isabelle Cristina Baltariu et al. Drug and Al...