Sunday, April 2, 2023

For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men’s attractiveness as prospective and current partners

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Fortunate Families? The Effects of Wealth on Marriage and Fertility. David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist, Robert Östling & Anastasia Terskaya...

Exposure to insecticide baits that contain glucose has messed up the cockroaches' love game, forcing males to de-sweet their nuptial gifts and to hasten copulation

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Gustatory polymorphism mediates a new adaptive courtship strategy. Ayako Wada-Katsumata, Eduardo Hatano and Coby Schal. Proceedings of the ...

Moral licensing, taking the liberty of acting reprehensibly when one has done something good, only occurs when the good deed had been observed

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Rotella, Amanda, Jisoo Jung, Christopher Chinn, and Pat Barclay. 2023. “Observation Moderates the Moral Licensing Effect: A Meta-analytic Te...

Both Democrats and Republicans discriminate against applicants with a political orientation that does not match their own, with Democrats doing even more discriminating

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Judging Job Applicants by Their Politics: Effects of Target–Rater Political Dissimilarity on Discrimination, Cooperation, and Stereotyping. ...

I observed line performance actually dropping when lines were actively supervised, a result I began calling a reverse Hawthorne effect

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Bernstein, E. 2012 The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control. Administrative Science...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Demography Leads to More Conservative European Societies

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Fieder, Martin and Huber, Susanne, Demography Leads to More Conservative European Societies. Mar 20233. SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Examining the Sexual Double Standards and Hypocrisy in Partner Suitability Appraisals Within a Norwegian Sample

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Examining the Sexual Double Standards and Hypocrisy in Partner Suitability Appraisals Within a Norwegian Sample. Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair...

Although daughters and their parents rated ambition and intelligence as the most important qualities of a husband for daughters, in the concrete case, both parties chose the more attractive man

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Fugère, M. A., Ciccarelli, N. C., & Cousins, A. J. (2023). The importance of physical attractiveness and ambition/intelligence to the ma...

Across the world, adoption of the internet was associated with greater life satisfaction and social well-being

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Vuorre, Matti, and Andrew K. Przybylski. 2023. “A Multiverse Analysis of the Associations Between Internet Use and Well-being.” PsyArXiv. Ma...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Understand what people desire most in a work of art... "In nearly every country all people really wanted was a landscape with a few figures around, animals in the foreground, mainly blue"

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The age of average. Alex Murrell. Mar 20 2023. https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average In the early 1990s, two Russian art...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Women consistently reported less inequality for themselves than they reported for their group, and for both sexes, political leanings predicted support for gender equality more strongly than perceived personal and societal inequality

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Political Ideology Outdoes Personal Experience in Predicting Support for Gender Equality. A. Timur Sevincer, Cindy Galinsky, Lena Martensen,...

Is the Dark Triad Desirable? Evaluating the Attractiveness of Fictitious Characters for Short- and Long-term Relationships

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Dragostinov, Yavor, and Tom Booth. 2023. “Is the Dark Triad Desirable? Evaluating the Attractiveness of Fictitious Characters for Short- and...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Moderate Beer Consumption Is Associated with Good Physical and Mental Health Status and Increased Social Support

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Moderate Beer Consumption Is Associated with Good Physical and Mental Health Status and Increased Social Support. Antonio Moreno-Llamas, Ern...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Anti-opiates' effects: Opioid Receptor Blockade Lowers Self-Esteem

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Shifting the Sociometer: Opioid Receptor Blockade Lowers Self-Esteem. Kristina Tchalova, Sophie Beland, Mona Lisa Chanda, Daniel J Levitin, ...

No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study

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No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study. Giovanni Sala et al. Psychological ...

Further evidence that news recommendations on search engines and social media do not create the feared filter bubbles and echo chambers

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More of the Same? Homogenization in News Recommendations When Users Search on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Efrat Nechushtai, Rodr...

Inconsistent and Very Weak Evidence for a Direct Association Between Childhood Personality and Adult Ideology

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Fasching, Neil, Kevin Arceneaux, and Bert N. Bakker. 2023. “Inconsistent and Very Weak Evidence for a Direct Association Between Childhood P...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Family happiness is idealized over personal happiness in the majority of countries (49-nation study)

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Family First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family Versus Personal Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures. Kuba Krys...

Lifespans of the European Elite, 800–1800: Marked increases around 1400 and again around 1650

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Lifespans of the European Elite, 800–1800. Neil Cummins. The Journal of Economic History, Volume 77, Issue 2, June 2017, pp. 406-439. https:...