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People don't like talking about taboos, but they like reading about them in secret🤫 Association for Psychological Science covers our taboos paper--the second most read across all APS journals in 2024--in their latest podcast: psychologicalscience.org/news/utc-2025-…

The cultural rise of women (and thus the influence of their priorities) contributed to at least three changes over the past 10-20 years: Increased equity over merit-based hierarchy Increased harm-avoidance Increased ostracism (e.g., "cancel culture") youtube.com/watch?v=-liIio…

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The city each person lives in is distinct...shaped by places they can and cannot go, experiences they can and cannot have, people with whom they can and cannot connect, and opportunities--for prosperity, perspective, safety and more--they can and cannot pursue. Inequality and

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s. What should we make of this?

Men consistently show greater variability in their social and economic preferences than women, ending up more often at the extremes. Recent research suggests that while mean gender differences in preferences are often small or non-existent, there is strong evidence for

#SocArXiv: Antisemitism in German Higher Education. Results from a Survey Experiment Among Students at a German University osf.io/xqr95

The relationship between parents' education and children's academic achievement is predominantly determined by genes. Children's academic achievement is linked to their parents’ education, a link often attributed to resources and support in the home. Although there is

Interesting! Junior researchers who coauthor work with top scientists enjoy a persistent competitive advantage throughout the rest of their careers, compared to peers with similar early career profiles but without top coauthors. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Gender rules requiring men to display higher status traits such as leadership and ambition, and to eschew lower status traits such as weakness, were stronger in more gender-equal countries. Gender rules dictate how women and men should and should not be. Research on the

Women who flash luxury brands signal to men that they have (too) high financial expectations. Our investigation explored women's conspicuous consumption behaviors within the framework of mating goals, specifically mate attraction and mate guarding, and examined male

Women show greater variability than men in their relationship satisfaction - and predominate in the lower tail of the distribution of scores. [Recently, researchers] introduced the greater female variability hypothesis for relationship satisfaction, hypothesizing that

Meta-analysis: Women have core self-evaluations that are only slightly lower than those of men. Core self-evaluations represent a broad dispositional trait that denotes an individual's basic evaluation of themselves, including their self-worth, confidence, and positive