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Rolf Degen

@degenrolf

Science writer and book author in psychology, neuroscience and evolution

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Both the left and the right see political bots on Twitter (now X) solely as a problem of the other side of the political divide. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj… Study 1 explores global bot perceptions on through survey data from N = 452 Twitter (now X) users. Study 2 (N = 619) evaluates

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Political participation has practically no measurable effect on happiness and mental health. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Previous research studies have reported mixed results concerning the relationship between political participation and mental health. Previous research studies have

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Political psychology loses another showpiece to the replication crisis: conservatives are not more prone to negativity bias, the tendency to weigh the bad more heavily than the good. osf.io/preprints/psya… A prominent theory in political psychology contends that individual

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Contrary to the theoretical prediction, women are not more keen to compete for mates and status on their fertile days. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… The ovulatory competition hypothesis proposes that ovulation boosts a woman's desire for positional advantage when the potential gains

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People are amazingly clueless about the extent to which others like them or find a photo of them attractive. amazon.com/Mindwise-Under… What about predicting something simpler, such as how much other people like you? I’m afraid not. These studies found that people are only slightly

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The most important cause of the gender gap in partnered orgasms - the fact that women come less often than men during intercourse - is the under-stimulation of the clitoris. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… This article provides a review and visualization of findings over the last 30

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Men envy women for their physical attractiveness and their power of seduction. frontiersin.org/journals/psych… The present study [n=1,769] examines the phenomenon of envy directed towards the opposite sex. These findings corroborate the existing evidence of a sex imbalance. To

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Conspiracy theories can undermine your attractiveness. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… In seven studies (six of them preregistered, N = 2526), we examined whether people's perceptions of others' conspiracy beliefs were negatively associated with their actual (or anticipated)

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According to the most comprehensive data analysis yet, neither conservatives nor people from the political extremes are particularly susceptible to conspiracy theories. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/po… Researchers have long sought to make generalizable conclusions about the relationship

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Meta-analysis: Women who change their hormonal contraceptive use after mate choice do not experience reduced sexual satisfaction after all. osf.io/preprints/psya… Based on claims that changes in women’s hormone levels influence their mating psychology, the Congruency Hypothesis

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Meta-analysis: "Planned gay father families constitute a healthy context for children to flourish." link.springer.com/article/10.100… The present meta-analysis aimed at assessing the psychological adjustment of children raised in planned gay father families, in comparison with normative

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Meta-analysis: Presumably lost letters left in rich neighborhoods or on the windshields of luxury cars are more likely to be returned. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… This paper presents a meta-analysis of lost-letter experiments, which aim to measure prosocial behavior and citizens’

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Meta-analysis: GPS use takes its toll on environmental knowledge and sense of direction. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… In the current systematic review and meta-analysis, we examined for the first time whether the GPS is related to people’s navigation and orientation abilities. In

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Gun owners' stance on democracy is hardly any different from that of non-owners. link.springer.com/article/10.100… To test the relationship between gun ownership and democratic support, we utilize the 2020 wave of the American National Election Studies (N = 5441) and the 2016 wave of the

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Testosterone increased emotion-based dehumanization toward conservatively dressed women. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Past research has found that sexualized women are often dehumanized (i.e., attributed reduced human qualities). To the best of our knowledge, there are no empirical

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Electric vehicles record higher at-fault claims than traditional vehicles and are 6.7% more expensive to repair. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… These differences in vehicle operation, coupled with the proliferation of electric vehicles on our roads, warrant an in-depth investigation

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Contrary to expectations, the genetic influence on musical expertise did not diminish with the extent of deliberate practice. "In relative terms, genetic factors become more important with increasing practice." mdpi.com/2079-3200/12/9… The deliberate practice theory claims that