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Can a quick glance tell you how sexual a woman is?
s: Two studies supported the hypothesis that female sociosexuality can be accurately detected by strangers based on thin slices of observable behavior. Twenty-four female participants, whose sexual strategies ranged from highly restricted to highly unrestricted, were video taped while interacting with a male confederate. In Study 1, raters' judgments of the women's sociosexuality were highly correlated with the women's self-reported sociosexuality. Study 2 replicated this finding and identified specific cues perceivers used to make their judgments. We identified (1) Valid…
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Does gender discrimination work both ways?
test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated. Source: "Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations" from Research School of Economics, Australian National University, DISCUSSION PAPER NO. DP632 Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy…
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Do we really want to hear the truth from our friends?
ople help friends make desired impressions on others. The strategic presentation of friends can involve a mix of truth, exaggeration, and even lies. Given that we extol the virtues of truthfulness and admire honesty, how do we respond to people who stretch the truth to help their friends? In 2 experiments, scenarios depicted a central character describing a same-sex friend to a potential suitor who was attractive and whose "ideal date" preferences were clear. The central character either told the…
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How can we get more out of politicians?
this paper we estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians’ actions, and policy. We find that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. We use variation in this fit due to redistricting to identify the effects of reduced coverage. Exploring the links in the causal chain of media effects — voter information, politicians’ actions and policy — we find statistically significant and substantively important effects. Voters living in areas…
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Do teachers grade more harshly when they use red pens?
cause red pens are closely associated with error-marking and poor performance, the use of red pens when correcting student work can activate these concepts. People using red pens to complete a word-stem task completed more words related to errors and poor performance than did people using black pens (Study 1), suggesting relatively greater accessibility of these concepts. Moreover, people using red pens to correct essays marked more errors (Study 2) and awarded lower grades (Study 3) than people using blue…
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Does buying a wife make her more faithful?
u heard that right. This study shows a connection in Uganda between how much a man pays for a bride and how faithful she is: The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom’s family to the bride’s family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the theoretical…
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Virginity: How many people over 25 are still virgins?
w many people over 25 have not lost their virginity? 1.1 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 40 are still virgins. The CDC also reports that by age 19, 80% of men and 75% of women have lost their virginity. High school’s a prime setting for men to lose their virginity: the odds a man who has engaged in sexual activity had his first experience between the ages of 16 and 17 are 1 in 3.7. The odds…
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My most popular tweets:
tweet a lot of articles I don't post to the blog. Here are the top ten of all time thus far, in terms of clicks: 1) Even Tom Doesn't Use MySpace Anymore 2) "This is what it $20,000 a year looks like." 3) Jonah Lehrer's piece on scientific creativity in the WSJ 4) I don't need to see this, thank you. 5) The science behind being loud in bed. 6) Would a glass of water in space freeze or…
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