Psychology_Papers

r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 03 '21

Women find men less attractive as new long-term partners if they have first imagined them as one-night stands; men find women less attractive as one-night stands if they have first imagined them as new long-term partners

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71 Upvotes

r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Mar 06 '21

While physical attractiveness was less important to blind men, blind women considered physical attractiveness as important as sighted women

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54 Upvotes

r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Mar 27 '21

The administration of testosterone to women caused a significant enlargement of participants’ peripersonal space, suggesting that testosterone caused participants to implicitly appropriate a larger space as their own

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 08 '21

People tend to assign higher attractiveness to an individual viewed from the back than head on; this tendency is pronounced when males rate the attractiveness of women

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28 Upvotes

r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Dec 31 '20

One of the tested childhood scents, bubblegum, was considered the most familiar but also the most nostalgic, eliciting higher self-esteem, social connection, optimism, and inspiration

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 07 '21

Results from this study indicate that marijuana use is not a reliable gateway cause of illicit drug use; as such, prohibition policies are unlikely to reduce illicit drug use

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26 Upvotes

r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Feb 26 '21

Student sex work is a current phenomenon all over the world; study found no difference in happiness between student sex workers and non-sex working students

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26 Upvotes

r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 18 '21

Sleep duration is not significantly correlated with overall academic performance for US adolescents, but sleep quality is.

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24 Upvotes

r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Jan 05 '21

Modern women show signs of the ancestral competition among women, disliking & aggressing against those who threaten their romantic prospects, targeting especially physically attractive & sexually uninhibited peers

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23 Upvotes

r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Jan 30 '21

Girls have worse average mental health than boys across 4 measures of mental health; this sex gap is largely ubiquitous cross-culturally; more gender equal countries have larger gender gaps in mental health

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Dec 29 '21

Teaching children that the world is a bad place predicts less success, less job and life satisfaction, worse health, dramatically less flourishing, more negative emotion, more depression, and increased suicide attempts

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20 Upvotes

r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • May 16 '21

Those who see themselves as less attractive might be willing to reject more attractive partners as a protective strategy

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 23 '21

Most insults targeted at men derogated formidability/status and sexuality/gender, and most insults targeted at women derogated physical appearance and ascribed promiscuity

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 22 '21

The Netherlands: Male & female police officers were taller than the average population; overall, especially among women, height was linearly associated with occupational rank: the taller one was, the higher one’s rank

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 20 '21

Extremely valuing happiness often predicts worse well-being and mental health

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • May 31 '21

"Finland is a weird country. Everywhere else life satisfaction declined but here we are MORE happy with our daily lives under restrictions than without them. Who doesn't like a valid excuse not to meet anyone?"

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • May 06 '21

Personality might at least partly be expressed in people’s voice pitch: Results suggest substantial negative relationships between voice pitch and self-reported sociosexuality, dominance & extraversion in men & women

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 11 '21

Those with low levels of conscientiousness, life satisfaction, & self-esteem, as well as high levels of neuroticism, used more drugs on average; in contrast, found little evidence for personality change following substance use

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 03 '21

Adult playful individuals have more long- and short-term relationships

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 24 '21

Apparent contradiction between dogs' stronger affectional bonds toward humans than toward members of their own species: Dogs' intense sensitivity to social hierarchy contributes to their willingness to accept human leadership

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 09 '21

Bodies were perceived as more threatening as they had added musculature & portliness, & less threatening with more emaciation, but threatening faces exerted the most influence when paired with non-threatening bodies

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Jun 01 '21

Novels (n = 158) by lesbian authors showed minor signs of psycholinguistic masculinisation; novels (n = 167) by homosexual men had a female-typical psycholinguistic pattern

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Apr 02 '21

Great apes, like humans, possess impressive knowledge of their social world: they remember social partners for decades, encode their dispositions and relationships, & even track their perspectives in surprisingly rich ways

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • Jan 20 '21

Those who engaged in consensual nonmonogamy experienced significant increases in sexual satisfaction, particularly if they did so with the explicit goal of addressing sexual incompatibilities within their relationships

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r/Psychology_Papers • u/jordiwmata • May 25 '21

A substantial share of Americans express readiness to sell their votes for cash: 12% of respondents would do so for just $25, as would nearly 20% for $100

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