Friday, June 5, 2020

Grandiose narcissists consider intelligence so important bc they see it as leading to benefits across life domains; maintain & defend illusory positive intellectual self-views; & are extremely motivated to appear intelligent

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Why Do Narcissists Care So Much About Intelligence? Marcin Zajenkowski, Michael Dufner. Current Directions in Psychological Science, June 4,...

Men appreciate more aggresive and sexual humor; other differences seem based in roles, not natural differences

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Gender differences in humor-related traits, humor appreciation, production, comprehension, (neural) responses, use, and correlates: A system...

No pain, no gain: Perceived partner mate value mediates the desire-inducing effect of being hard to get

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No pain, no gain: Perceived partner mate value mediates the desire-inducing effect of being hard to get during online and face-to-face encou...

USA & Denmark: Those scoring higher in narcissism participate more in politics (contacting politicians, signing petitions, joining demonstrations, donating money, & voting in midterm elections)

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Narcissism in Political Participation. Zoltán Fazekas, Peter K. Hatemi. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, June 4, 2020. https://do...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood (an enduring feeling that the self is a victim across different kinds of interpersonal relationships) & the need for recognition, moral elitism, lack of empathy, & rumination

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The tendency for interpersonal victimhood: The personality construct and its consequences. Rahav Gabay et al. Personality and Individual Dif...

To beer or not to beer: A meta-analysis of the effects of beer consumption on cardiovascular health

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To beer or not to beer: A meta-analysis of the effects of beer consumption on cardiovascular health. Giorgia Spaggiari et al. PLoS, June 3, ...

Achilles & Patroklos - from Edward Carpenter's book, Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship (1902)

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Achilles & Patroklos [The following excerpt, on the lover-warriors Achilles and Patroklos (or Patroclus), is from Edward Carpenter...

Assessment of Psychopathology: Is Asking Questions Good Enough?

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Assessment of Psychopathology: Is Asking Questions Good Enough? Barbara Pavlova. JAMA Psychiatry. 2020;77(6):557-558. March 11 2020, doi:10....
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

We present converging evidence demonstrating poor reliability of task-fMRI measures

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What Is the Test-Retest Reliability of Common Task-Functional MRI Measures? New Empirical Evidence and a Meta-Analysis. Maxwell L. Elliott e...

Japanese macaques: Some adult females mount adult males in the context of heterosexual consortships; this research has implications for the evolution of non-conceptive sex in primates

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Is female-male mounting functional? An analysis of the temporal patterns of sexual behaviors in Japanese macaques. Noëlle Gunst et al. Physi...

Sperm sex ratio adjustment in a mammal: perceived male competition leads to elevated proportions of female-producing sperm

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Sperm sex ratio adjustment in a mammal: perceived male competition leads to elevated proportions of female-producing sperm. Renée C. Firman,...

The Earliest Origins of Genetic Nurture: The Prenatal Environment Mediates the Association Between Maternal Genetics and Child Development

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The Earliest Origins of Genetic Nurture: The Prenatal Environment Mediates the Association Between Maternal Genetics and Child Development. ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Most US transportation infrastructure is not deteriorating and the existing scientific literature and does not show that infrastructure creates growth or reduces congestion

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Transportation Infrastructure in the US. Matthew Turner, Gilles Duranton, Geetika Nagpal. NBER Working Paper No. 27254, May 2020. https://ww...

“They Don’t Know Better Than I Do”: People Are Reluctant to Rely on the Wisdom of Crowds in Individual Decision Making

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Yonah, Merav, and Yoav Kessler. 2020. ““They Don’t Know Better Than I Do”: People Are Reluctant to Rely on the Wisdom of Crowds in Individua...
Monday, June 1, 2020

From 2019... The Psychology of Alibis

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From 2019... The Psychology of Alibis. Steve Charman, Kureva Matuku, Alexandra Mosser. Advances in Psychology and Law pp 41-72, February 6 2...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Rational, impartial, benevolent bureaucratic government: Arthur Naftalin, Minneapolis Mayor

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"You Can't Legislate the Heart": Minneapolis Mayor Charles Stenvig and the Politics of Law and Order. Jeffrey T. Manuel and An...

Although evidence in modern humans does not support the prosociality hypothesis of homosexuality, the sociosexuality hypothesis has received notable support

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Luoto, S. Did Prosociality Drive the Evolution of Homosexuality? Arch Sex Behav (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01749-0 Introdu...

From 2015... Walking a fine line: Young people negotiate pornified heterosex

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From 2015... Walking a fine line: Young people negotiate pornified heterosex. Monique Mulholland. Sexualities, 2015, Vol. 18(5/6) 731–74. DO...
Saturday, May 30, 2020

Review evidence challenging the hypothesis that memories are processed/consolidated in sleep; the brain is in an unconscious state in sleep, akin to general anesthesia, & is incapable of meaningful cognitive processing

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No cognitive processing in the unconscious, Anesthetic‐Like, state of sleep. Robert P. Vertes,  Stephanie B. Linley. Journal of Comparative ...

Infidelity, chastity/purity, and long-term mating success increase women’s status more than men’s; promiscuity lowers the status of both sexes, but lowers it more dramatically for women than for men

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Buss, D. M., Durkee, P. K., Shackelford, T. K., Bowdle, B. F., Schmitt, D. P., Brase, G. L., Choe, J. C., & Trofimova, I. (2020). Human ...
Friday, May 29, 2020

How Financial News Affects Prosocial Behavior

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Kang, Polly and Daniels, David and Schweitzer, Maurice E., How Financial News Affects Prosocial Behavior (April 22, 2020). SSRN: https://ssr...

France: Ideological extremity is associated with a reduced adherence to public health recommendations; at the same time, compliance increases as one moves from Left to Right

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Sociodemographic and Psychological Correlates of Compliance with the COVID-19 Public Health Measures in France. Sylvain Brouard, Pavlos Vasi...

COVID-19 paradoxical duality: there is a tendency to be optimistic about one’s own risk of infection (private optimism) & at the same time to be pessimistic about the risk to others (public pessimism)

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Globig, Laura K., Bastien Blain, and Tali Sharot. 2020. “When Private Optimism Meets Public Despair: Dissociable Effects on Behavior and Wel...