Friday, May 6, 2022

In search of gratification: Psychological Benefits of Believing Conspiracy Theories

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Psychological Benefits of Believing Conspiracy Theories. Jan-Willem van Prooijen. Current Opinion in Psychology, May 5 2022, 101352. https:/...

Small effects: Adolescents with more extraverted mothers were more likely to be sexually active; sexually active girls were also more likely to use contraception if their fathers scored higher on conscientiousness

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Parent personality traits and adolescent sexual behaviour: Cross-sectional findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Mark...

Male witches were mostly accused by males (blood-relatives or not), often in connection to disputes over wealth & status; accusations of women were mainly from kin by marriage (mostly husbands & co-wives)

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Same-sex competition and sexual conflict expressed through witchcraft accusations. Sarah Peacey, Olympia L. K. Campbell & Ruth Mace. Sci...

It is increasingly recognized that sex chromosomes are not only the battlegrounds between sexes but also the Great Walls fencing off introgression between diverging lineages

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Neo-sex chromosome evolution shapes sex-dependent asymmetrical introgression barrier. Silu Wang et al. xxx, May 5, 2022 | 119 (19) e21193821...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Current study supports previous findings showing that people living in slums tend to report higher levels of life satisfaction than one might expect; factors other than objective poverty make life more, or less, satisfying

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Life Satisfaction among the Poorest of the Poor: A Study in Urban Slum Communities in India. Esther Sulkers & Jasmijn Loos. Psychologica...