Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The most off-putting flirting dealbreakers included having a slimy approach, bad hygiene, and not demonstrating exclusive interest

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What constitutes bad flirting: An explorative study of dealbreakers. Menelaos Apostolou, Chrysovalanto Eleftheriou. Personality and Individu...

Time was remembered as passing more quickly during alcohol, cocaine and MDMA use, while marijuana was associated with a subjective slowing of time

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The Influence of Recreational Drug Use on Experiences of the Passage of Time. Ruth S. Ogden and Joseph Faulkner. Sucht, Apr 13 2022. https:/...

Similar to animals, humans are endowed with ‘nutritional wisdom’, guiding them to instinctively choose foods that satisfy requirements for specific micronutrients

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Micronutrients and food choice: A case of ‘nutritional wisdom’ in humans? Jeffrey M. Brunstrom, Mark Schatzker. Appetite, April 18 2022, 106...

A higher pulse rate predicts lower life satisfaction, poorer health, and lower labor market status

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Taking the Pulse of Nations: A Biometric Measure of Well-being. David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson. Economics & Human Biology, Apr 18 20...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Adverse mental health effects of spanking (delinquency, depression, and alcohol use) can be attributed to a considerable extent to hereditary similarities between parents and children

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The effects of spanking on psychosocial outcomes: revisiting genetic and environmental covariation. Nicole Barbaro, Eric J. Connolly, Madi S...

Many atheists think of themselves as intellectually gifted individuals, guiding humanity on the path of reason. Scientific data shows otherwise.

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Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think. Will Gervais. Big Think, Apr 15 2022. https://bigthink.com/the-well/atheism-rare-rationa...

The record percentage of workers who are quitting their jobs, known as the “Great Resignation,” is not a shift in worker attitudes due to the pandemic: Waves of job quits have occurred during all fast recoveries in the postwar period

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“Great Resignations” Are Common During Fast Recoveries. Bart Hobijn. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Economic Letters 2022-08, A...

Cannot confirm that always interactions between testosterone and cortisol are negative; sometimes there is a a positive feedback loop whereby elevated testosterone prompts increases in sexual desire and behavior, and cortisol helps in this

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Associations Between Sexual Desire and Within-Individual Testosterone and Cortisol in Men and Women. Kevin A Rosenfield, Heather Self, Talia...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVI

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXVI [...] Your Honor who even when absent gives some light to us Your admirers and followers ,/ Su Señoría...

Passage of rent control in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2021: To the extent that rent control is intended to transfer wealth from high-income to low-income households, the realized impact of the law was the opposite of its intention

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Ahern, Kenneth Robinson and Giacoletti, Marco, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? The Redistribution of Wealth Caused by Rent Control (March 18, 202...

16,699 active duty service members in U.S. military: The Air Force had the lowest rates of nearly all substance use and mental health outcomes; many outcomes were 2-3 times higher among Army, Marine Corps & Navy, after adjustment

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Military service branch differences in alcohol use, tobacco use, prescription drug misuse, and mental health conditions. Megan S. Schuler, E...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Analyses from >100 species of birds & mammals revealed robust positive correlations between yawn duration and brain mass and overall & cortical/pallium neuron totals; the observation of yawning in conspecifics selectively enhances vigilance

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The causes and consequences of yawning in animal groups. Andrew C.Gallup. Animal Behaviour, Volume 187, May 2022, Pages 209-219. https://doi...

Results suggested that people were less ready to commit to a romantic relationship to the extent that they perceived they had many partners available to them

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Playing the field or locking down a partner?: Perceptions of available romantic partners and commitment readiness. Ashlyn Brady et al. Journ...

Women enjoyed higher levels of purpose in life; & were more likely to have altruistic behaviors and attitudes, which in turn facilitated a stronger purpose in life

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From 2018... Gender Differences in Purpose in Life: The Mediation Effect of Altruism. Juan Xi et al. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Jun 7...

The widespread public scepticism about Darwinism in most developed countries can be understood in terms of the counter-intuitive nature of the theory – we experience species as fixed and distinct in kind, not changing and only quantitatively different – and lack of education about the fundamental concepts

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Darwinian explanations and socio-cultural processes: A synthesis. Daniel Nettle. Before 2008? https://doc4pdf.com/761219-darwinian-explanati...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Higher intelligence is robustly related to greater tolerance of disliked groups

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Lasker, Jordan, and Jon McNaughtan. 2022. “Assessing the Robustness of the Relationship Between Tolerance and Intelligence.” PsyArXiv. April...

Fake Independents, who claimed independence but who voted straight ticket, in most cases preferred Democrats, acted very much like Liberals in stated values and concerns, had aversion to being bound to a party

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This party stinks: Self-definitions and justifications of the politically unaffiliated. Daniel M. Rempala & Bradley M. Okdie. Current Ps...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Germany: Women rate the reputation of housewives considerably worse than men do

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Das Ansehen von Hausfrauen in Deutschland – Eine quantitativ-empirische Analyse differenzieller Wahrnehmungen / The Prestige of Housewives i...

We found that change in self-reported sexual orientation was not reflected in genital arousal, providing tentative support for the notion that self-reports may overestimate change in sexual orientation

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Stability and Change in Sexual Orientation and Genital Arousal over Time. Dragos C. Gruia, Luke Holmes, Jaime Raines, Erlend Slettevold, Tue...

Pakistan’s per capita GDP would have been an average of about $718 per year higher had the country not undertaken the effort to produce a nuclear weapon = per capita GDP being 27.8 percent lower over the 25-year weapons-development period

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The Economic Cost of a Nuclear Weapon: A Synthetic Control Approach. Anthony Mayberry. SSRN Apr 6 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.40650...

Too hunky to help? Boys in the socially self-confident profile had significantly higher mean levels of prosocial behavior beliefs toward other boys compared to boys in the socially precarious profile

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Too hunky to help: A person-centered approach to masculinity and prosocial behavior beliefs among adolescent boys. Matthew G. Nielson, Diana...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXV

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 Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXV [...] Your Honor the blessing that the gods gave to us His admirers , /Su Señoría la bendición que los...