Friday, December 22, 2017

Left-Wing Authoritarianism in the United States

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Conway, L. G., Houck, S. C., Gornick, L. J. and Repke, M. A. (2017), Finding the Loch Ness Monster: Left-Wing Authoritarianism in the United...

Drosophila M. males also significantly reduced courtship activity following a failed mating experience from old females but did not do so for control (large, young, virgin) or small females

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Balaban-Feld J, Valone TJ. Changes in courtship behaviour following rejection: The influence of female phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster....

Despite claims to the contrary neither dogs, elephants, dolphins, magpies, horses, manta rays, squid, or ants have shown compelling, reproducible evidence for self-recognition in any modality

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The “olfactory mirror” and other recent attempts to demonstrate self-recognition in non-primate species. Gordon G. Gallup Jr. Behavioural Pr...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

General sexual desire, but not desire for uncommitted sexual relationships, tracks changes in women's hormonal status

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General sexual desire, but not desire for uncommitted sexual relationships, tracks changes in women's hormonal status. Benedict Jones et...

When proficiency levels are only adequate, and without special investment in L2, native language jokes will be evaluated as funnier than foreign language jokes. With intermediate proficiency and investment, jokes can be experienced as similarly humorous in the two languages

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Are jokes funnier in one’s native language? Ayşe Ayçiçeği-Dinn, Simge Şişman-Bal, Catherine L Caldwell-Harris. International Journal of Humo...

Greater importance of intrasexual competition than female choice in human male sexual selection than we thought -- physical dominance, but not sexual attractiveness, predicted mating success

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Kordsmeyer, Tobias, John Hunt, David Puts, Julia Ostner, and Lars Penke. 2017. “The Relative Importance of Intra- and Intersexual Selection ...

There is a limit to the number of friends we can manage at any one time, Dunbar’s number, imposed by a combination of the time and the cognitive demands of maintaining relationships. ⦁ There are striking gender differences in how relationships are maintained

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The Anatomy of Friendship. R.I.M. Dunbar. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 32–51. https://doi.org/10.10...

Gender Composition and Group Confidence Judgment: The Perils of All-Male Groups

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Gender Composition and Group Confidence Judgment: The Perils of All-Male Groups. Steffen Keck, Wenjie Tang.  Management Science, https://pub...

The Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load

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The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No God”: the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associa...

Men Who Compliment a Woman's Appearance Using Metaphorical Language: Associations with Creativity, Masculinity, Intelligence and Attractiveness

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Men Who Compliment a Woman's Appearance Using Metaphorical Language: Associations with Creativity, Masculinity, Intelligence and Attract...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Wiser reasoning appeared in conjunction with greater (vs. lower) emotionality, especially the recognition of a greater number of present emotions and greater balance of intensity across experienced emotions

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Grossmann, Igor, and Harrison Oakes. 2017. “Wisdom of Yoda and Mr. Spock: The Role of Emotions and the Self”. PsyArXiv. December 21. psyarxi...

Parents of daughters, whether unborn or recently born, are shown to be almost twice as risk-averse as parents of sons

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Female Babies and Risk-Aversion. Ganna Pogrebna, Andrew J. Oswald, David Haig. IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Discussion Paper No. 10717....

Joy is a distinct positive emotion: Assessment of joy and relationship to gratitude and well-being

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Joy is a distinct positive emotion: Assessment of joy and relationship to gratitude and well-being. Philip C. Watkins, Robert A. Emmons, Mad...

Assessing Intentional Resume Deception: Development and Nomological Network of a Resume Fraud Measure

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Assessing Intentional Resume Deception: Development and Nomological Network of a Resume Fraud Measure. Christine A. Henle, Brian R. Dineen, ...

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder: An Initial Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol, Attractiveness, Warmth, and Competence on the Objectifying Gaze in Men

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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder: An Initial Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol, Attractiveness, Warmth, and Competence on the O...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Gender differences in most aspects of personality—Big Five traits, Dark Triad traits, self-esteem, subjective well-being, depression and values—are conspicuously larger in cultures with more egalitarian gender roles, gender socialization and sociopolitical gender equity -- objectively measured attributes such as tested cognitive abilities and physical traits such as height and blood pressure are also more different

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Schmitt, D. P., Long, A. E., McPhearson, A., O'Brien, K., Remmert, B. and Shah, S. H. (2017), Personality and gender differences in glob...

Preschool children and chimpanzees prefer to pay to watch punishment of antisocial other, instead of saving effort or money and stop watching

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Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others. Natacha Mendes, Nikolaus Steinbeis, Nereida Bueno-G...

Knowing one would receive the answers to anagrams made them persist for less time trying to solve the task

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Risko, E. F., Huh, M., McLean, D., & Ferguson, A. M. (2017). On the prospect of knowing: Providing solutions can reduce persistence. Jou...

Exposure to male sexual scents (androstenone) influences women’s drinking (they drink more)

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Tan, R., & Goldman, M. S. (2017). Exposure to male sexual scents (androstenone) influences women’s drinking. Experimental and Clinical P...

The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States

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The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States. Hunt Allcott, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre D...

The married are more satisfied [...] suggesting a causal effect at all stages of the marriage, from pre-nuptual bliss to marriages of long-duration

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How’s Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness. Shawn Grover, John F. Helliwell. Journal of Happiness Studies,...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Creepiness Creeps In: Uncanny Valley Feelings Are Acquired in Childhood

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Brink, K. A., Gray, K. and Wellman, H. M. (2017), Creepiness Creeps In: Uncanny Valley Feelings Are Acquired in Childhood. Child Dev. doi:10...

Digital Screen Time Limits and Young Children's Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From a Population-Based Study

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Przybylski, A. K. and Weinstein, N. (2017), Digital Screen Time Limits and Young Children's Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From a Po...

Why Sex? And why only in Pairs? The Red Queen Model Wins

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Why Sex? And why only in Pairs? Motty Perry, Philip J. Reny andArthur J. Robson. The Economic Journal. DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12364 Abstract: U...

When Your Child Is a Psychopath

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When Your Child Is a Psychopath. Barbara Bradley Hagerty. The Atlantic. June 2017 The condition has long been considered untreatable. Exper...

Towards solving the evolutionary puzzle of suicide

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Towards solving the evolutionary puzzle of suicide. C A Soper. PhD Thesis. DOI10.13140/RG.2.2.33063.04007 Abstract: How the potential for su...

Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide

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Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide. Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessmann. Review of Economics a...

Generous heathens? Reputational concerns and atheists' behavior toward Christians in economic games

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Generous heathens? Reputational concerns and atheists' behavior toward Christians in economic games. Colleen M.Cowgill, Kimberly Rios, A...

A review of epidemiologic studies on suicide before, during, and after the Holocaust

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A review of epidemiologic studies on suicide before, during, and after the Holocaust. Itzhak Levav, Anat Brunstein Klomek. Psychiatry Resear...

Paradoxical effects of self-awareness of being observed: testing the effect of police body-worn cameras on assaults and aggression against officers

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Paradoxical effects of self-awareness of being observed: testing the effect of police body-worn cameras on assaults and aggression against o...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Romanticizing the Hunter-Gatherer, Despite the Girl Infanticide, the Homicide Rate, etc.

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Romanticizing the Hunter-Gatherer. William Buckner. Quillette, December 16, 2017. Check full text, table, photos, at quillette.com/2017/12/1...