Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Openness to Experience is by far the strongest (negative) correlate of conservatism, but that there is little evidence to suggest that this association is causal

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Osborne, Danny, Nicole Satherley, and Chris G. Sibley. 2021. “Personality and Ideology: A Meta-analysis of the Reliable, but Non-causal, Ass...

Inferring Organizational Trust From the Presence of Women: The processes & practices of male-dominated organizational culture can leave a residue of mistrust, but viewing women in leadership is one beacon illuminating paths upward

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My Fair Lady? Inferring Organizational Trust From the Mere Presence of Women in Leadership Roles. Mansi P. Joshi, Amanda B. Diekman. Persona...

Top, Bottom, and Versatile Orientations among Adolescent Sexual Minority Men: Data from our study supports sexual self-labeling occurring before adulthood, during adolescence for sexual minority men

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Top, Bottom, and Versatile Orientations among Adolescent Sexual Minority Men. David A. Moskowitz et al. The Journal of Sex Research, Jul 26 ...

Female relationship & sexual satisfaction were related to male psychopathic traits: Male meanness & disinhibition were negative predictors of female satisfaction; male boldness & social status were positive predictors

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When your beloved is a psychopath. Psychopathic traits and social status of men and women's relationship and sexual satisfaction. Irena ...

The Big Five Personality Traits and Earnings: These authors find weak associations between earnings and Extraversion and Agreeableness; or, if you are nice, you earn less

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The Big Five Personality Traits and Earnings: A Meta-Analysis. Alderotti, Giammarco, Rapallini, Chiara, Traverso, Silvio. Global Labor Organ...

Strengthened partisan feelings extend to economic perceptions—The gap in perceptions approximately doubled between 1999 & 2020, and partisan economic perceptions no longer seem to converge during economic crises

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Cognitive Political Economy: A Growing Partisan Divide in Economic Perceptions. David W. Brady, John A. Ferejohn, Brett Parker. American Pol...

Banks that implemented antigun or progun policies experienced substantial reductions in deposit growth due to politically polarized depositors

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Jeung, Jinoug, Politically Polarized Depositors (July 30, 2021). SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3896745 Abstract: Exploiting a shock d...
Monday, August 9, 2021

Changes in labor market returns explain 36 pct of the measured increase in reasoning skill (the Flynn effect), & can also explain decline in knowledge; we show evidence of increasing emphasis on reasoning as compared to knowledge

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Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence. Santiago Hermo, Miika M. Päällysaho, David G. Seim & Je...

Among women with lower relationship quality, "trying" to get pregnant was associated with higher sexual satisfaction, and among those with higher relationship quality, with lower sexual satisfaction

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Is Reproductive Orientation Associated with Sexual Satisfaction Among Partnered U.S. Women? Karina M Shreffler et al. Arch Sex Behav, Aug 3 ...

Despite Leftists' belief in the power of learning and environmental factors to shape human development, no association between core measures of political worldviews and people's view of heritability of intelligence is found

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Worldview-motivated rejection of science and the norms of science. Stephan Lewandowsky, Klaus Oberauer. Cognition, Volume 215, October 2021,...

Utilitarian agents, described as opting to sacrifice a single individual for the greater good, were perceived as less predictable and less moral than deontological agents whose inaction resulted in five people being harmed

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The search for predictable moral partners: Predictability and moral (character) preferences. Martin HarrycTurpin et al. Journal of Experimen...

No consistent correlation between baseline pupil diameter and cognitive abilities after controlling for confounds—A comment on Tsukahara and Engle (2021)

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No consistent correlation between baseline pupil diameter and cognitive abilities after controlling for confounds—A comment on Tsukahara and...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

Max Planck Institut's MPI-M Earth System Model v1.2: To prevent a sensitivity of 7C in average temperature instead of the right value (2.77C), an atmospheric parameter had to be tuned by a factor of 10 (!)

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Mauritsen, T., Bader, J., Becker, T., Behrens, J., Bittner, M., Brokopf, R., et al. (2019). Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model ver...

Women learn while men talk?: Women appear to need a sense of higher levels of competence in order to engage with online political content, especially for sharing and commenting

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Women learn while men talk?: revisiting gender differences in political engagement in online environments. Darren Lilleker et al. Informatio...

News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload—News avoidance indeed has a positive effect on perceived well-being

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News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload. Kiki de Bruin et al. Digital Journalism, Aug 6 2021. https://...
Saturday, August 7, 2021

Squirrel parkour

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Acrobatic squirrels learn to leap and land on tree branches without falling. Nathaniel H. Hunt et al. Science  Aug 6 2021:Vol. 373, Issue 65...

Humans resist unequal distributions of goods in their social interactions, even if it requires foregoing personal gains—Study Finds A Causal Role of the Insula in Aversion to Social Inequity Via Lesion Evidence

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Lesion Evidence for a Causal Role of the Insula in Aversion to Social Inequity. Felix Jan Nitsch, Hannah Strenger, Stefan Knecht, Bettina St...

Politically partisan left-right online news echo chambers are real, but only a minority of approximately 5% of internet news users inhabit them; the continued popularity of mainstream outlets often preclude the formation of large partisan echo chambers

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How Many People Live in Politically Partisan Online News Echo Chambers in Different Countries? Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus ...

Found that anal sex had a much later age of initiation compared to oral and vaginal sex; anal sex is a less common and more sexually advanced behavior and may require greater preparation compared to oral and vaginal varieties

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Roberts H, Clark A, Sherman C, Heitzeg MM, Hicks BM (2021) Age, sex, and other demographic trends in sexual behavior in the United States: I...