Monday, May 16, 2022

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXX

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCLXX [...] Your Honor the admired priest of Aphrodite, the best servant of Love , /Su Señoría el admirado sa...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Some social wasps recognise each other’s faces and memorise information about the status of other individuals; such information can be acquired through observing interactions between familiar individuals and might involve transitive inference

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Social cognition in insects. Lars Chittka, Natacha Rossi. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, May 12, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.04...

Comparisons made faces look more attractive, even comparisons with more attractive faces

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Comparisons make faces more attractive: An ERP study. Shangfeng Han, Jie Hu, Jie Gao, Jiayu Fan, Xinyun Xu, Pengfei Xu, Yuejia Luo. Br...

Quantum computers are expected to break modern public key cryptography owing to Shor’s algorithm; as a result, these cryptosystems need to be replaced by quantum-resistant algorithms

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Transitioning organizations to post-quantum cryptography. David Joseph, Rafael Misoczki, Marc Manzano, Joe Tricot, Fernando Dominguez Pinua...

The Mania of Narcissus (Joseph Guislain 1852, ‘the patient infatuated with his beauty, his charms, his wit, dress, talents, and birth’) is not restricted to the clinical setting, & a larger-scale narcissism can interfere with planetary health

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Planetary Health: We Need to Talk about Narcissism. Alan C. Logan and Susan L. Prescott. Challenges 2022, 13(1), 19; May 7 2022. https://doi...

Whimsical playfulness (liking odd and/or unusual things, persons, or activities) was related to the Seven Sexy traits (small effect sizes)

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“Play with me, Darling!” Testing the Associations Between Adult Playfulness and Indicators of Sexuality. Kay Brauer et al. The Journal of Se...

4.5% of University Students Reported Exchanging Sex for Money or Other Compensation in a Public Univ Sample

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University Students Who Report Exchanging Sex for Money or Other Compensation: Findings from a Public University Sample. Lara B. Gerassi, Sa...

The findings are inconsistent with those of the original study and provide evidence that altruism does not predict mating success in humans

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Judd, L. J., Mills, J. G., & Allen, M. S. (2022). Altruism does not predict mating success in humans: A direct replication. Evolutionary...

Our findings show fairly significant damage to the image of Russia as a country as well as the Russian government; however, the reputational damage of the Russian people is minimal

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The reputational cost of military aggression: Evidence from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Peyman Asadzade, Roya Izadi. Research &...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Beauty is associated with lower support for redistribution and with a higher likelihood of believing that economic success depends more on individual effort rather than external circumstances

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Attractiveness and Preferences for Redistribution. Andrea Fazio. Economics & Human Biology, May 11 2022, 101145. https://doi.org/10.101...

Interpersonal distancing is attentionally demanding and hence vulnerable to unintentional lapses due to inattention: 97pct of all participants reported unintentional lapses due to hyperfocus and spontaneous mind-wandering, inter alia

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Brown, Chris R. H., Dr, and Sophie Forster. 2022. “Lapses in the Person Radar: Attentional Traits Predict Difficulty in Interpersonal Distan...

Sex-differentiated components of sexual morality: Women expressed more moral condemnation of short-term sex, and especially transactional sex-for-money exchanges; sexual infidelity more morally condemned by women than by men

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Asao, K., Crosby, C. L., & Buss, D. M. (2022). Sexual morality: Multidimensionality and sex differences. Evolutionary Behavioral Science...

“Meating halfway”: Exploring the attitudes of meat eaters, veg*ns, and occasional meat eaters toward those who eat meat and those who do not eat meat

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“Meating halfway”: Exploring the attitudes of meat eaters, veg*ns, and occasional meat eaters toward those who eat meat and those who do not...

Across cultures, women are much higher than men on fearful personality traits. Why? The sex difference in fear is mediated by that in physical strength.

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Physical Strength Partly Explains Sex Differences in Trait Anxiety in Young Americans. Nicholas Kerry, Damian R. Murray. Psychological Scien...
Friday, May 13, 2022

Honor cultures research centered almost exclusively on men and physical aggression as a means of reputation defense; present research indicates honor endorsing women also active in reputation maintenance and defense (spreading rumors, social exclusion)

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Honor-endorsing women and relational aggression: Evidence for the presence of feminine aggression norms in southern U.S. women. Stephen Fost...

Higher levels of perceived tightness in own jurisdiction were associated with higher levels of mask wearing & handwashing during COVID-19, more endorsement of future policy changes to contain the pandemic, higher reported feelings of responsibility for one’s life

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Does State Tightness-Looseness Predict Behavior and Attitudes Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA? Ashley Gilliam et al. Journal of Cr...

Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis

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Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis. Sheina Lew-Levy et al. Front. Psychol., May 11 2022 | http...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCXLI

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Letters To A Spanish Youngster CCXLI [...] Your Honor of the great fire in the heart, L'amour, la tendresse, la gratitude que j&#...