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Psychology

Love Thy Neighbor Applies, Even When There’s Money At Stake

Most people do not want war in their backyard.  In geopolitics, people claim to love their neighbor but they still prepare to fight; Switzerland, the home of neutrality, still has hundreds of forts built into their mountains and young men are required to own a gun(1).  read...

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Statistically "Highly Unlikely" – Social Psychologist Dirk Smeesters Resigns

Erasmus University Rotterdam has announced that Dirk Smeesters, Professor of Consumer and Society at Rotterdam School of Management, has had two papers withdrawn after a report from the Inquiry Committee on Scientific Integrity looked into suspicions that the professor had committed scientific errors. read...

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Be A Sexy Jerk: Nice Guys Finish Last In Reproduction Too

Females like the bad boys when they are young, we all know that colloquially - and even more so when they are ovulating, say a group of social and evolutionary psychologists. read...

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Being An Unruly Kid May Be A Mental Disorder

It's been said that science fiction can sometimes turn into science fact.In that same vein, it may be that stories from The Onion (More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed With Youthful Tendency Disorder) may one day become part of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). read...

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Good News, Science 2.0 Writers – Women Prefer Arrogant Men

Let's be honest - in the 21st century the wussification of men has been in full force.   Being a man is out if that means not being a politically correct, hyper-sensitive, asexual, homogenized follower of all that is cool and popular among the cultural intelligentsia.But testosterone levels are dropping and that could mean any number of consequences for the future of our species. Now you...

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Can Getting Drunk Make You More Conservative?

Wait, a study claims drinking alcohol makes you less likely to throw cultural caution to the wind and spend stupidly? Does. Not. Compute.Unless it's social psychology, but even then no one is believing it unless they are one of the people writing about how screwed up Republicans are, i.e., need some new framework for the confirmation bias of their audience.  read...

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