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Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations
(Natl Acad Sciences, Washington, 2016)
People who are more avoidant of pathogens are more politically conservative, as are nations with greater parasite stress. In the current research, we test two prominent hypotheses that have been proposed as explanations ...
The Validity and Structure of Culture-Level Personality Scores: Data From Ratings of Young Adolescents
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2010)
We examined properties of culture-level personality traits in ratings of targets (N=5,109) ages 12 to 17 in 24 cultures. Aggregate scores were generalizable across gender, age, and relationship groups and showed convergence ...
Cross-Cultural Consistency and Relativity in the Enjoyment of Thinking Versus Doing
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2019)
Which is more enjoyable: trying to think enjoyable thoughts or doing everyday solitary activities? Wilson et al. (2014) found that American participants much preferred solitary everyday activities, such as reading or ...
Christmas 2017: natural phenomena wine glass size in England from 1700 to 2017: a measure of our time
(BMJ Publishing Group, London, 2017)
Evidence on global medical travel
(World Health Organization, Geneva 27, 2015)
The potential benefits of travelling across national borders to obtain medical treatment include improved care, decreased costs and reduced waiting times. However, medical travel involves additional risks, compared to ...
Does self-control modify the impact of interventions to change alcohol, tobacco, and food consumption? A systematic review
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2018)
Low self-control is associated with increased consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and unhealthy food. This systematic review aimed to assess whether individual differences in self-control modify the effectiveness of interventions ...
Balloons and bavoons versus spikes and shikes: ERPs reveal shared neural processes for shape-sound-meaning congruence in words, and shape-sound congruence in pseudowords
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2015)
There is something about the sound of a pseudoword like takete that goes better with a spiky, than a curvy shape (Kohler, 1929:1947). Yet despite decades of research into sound symbolism, the role of this effect on real ...
Does distance from the equator predict self-control? Lessons from the Human Penguin Project
(Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 2017)
We comment on the proposition "that lower temperatures and especially greater seasonal variation in temperature call for individuals and societies to adopt ... a greater degree of self-control" (Van Lange et al., sect. 3, ...
The Emergence of Sex Differences in Personality Traits in Early Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional, Cross-Cultural Study
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2015)
Although large international studies have found consistent patterns of sex differences in personality traits among adults (i.e., women scoring higher on most facets), less is known about cross-cultural sex differences in ...
The shape of words in the brain
(Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, 2010)
The principle of arbitrariness in language assumes that there is no intrinsic relationship between linguistic signs and their referents. However, a growing body of sound-symbolism research suggests the existence of some ...