- What Does Your Gaze Reveal About You? On the Privacy Implications of Eye Tracking https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-42504-3_15 5 comments privacy
- People who engage more in body odor sniffing show stronger sexual desire, a cross-cultural study in China, India, and the USA finds. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02398-1 41 comments science
- New study finds that the number 19 has become a less popular choice as a lottery number since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (at least in Belgium) https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10899-022-10145-3 10 comments science
- (n=403 straight women) No direct evidence was found for any associations between self-reported frequency and intensity of sexual vocalization and partner satisfaction/physical attractiveness/ambition/dominance, self-perceived attractiveness, or occurrence of orgasm. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02018-4 8 comments science
- The Best Years of Older Europeans’ Lives: Most Europeans over 50 consider the ages of 30–34 to have been the best years of their lives. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-021-02804-6 10 comments europe
- Most people over 50 consider the ages of 30–34 to have been the best years of their lives. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-021-02804-6 3861 comments science
- Meta-analysis of studies between 1965 and 2020 finds that the pupils of gay and heterosexual men, but not women, significantly enlarge when sexually aroused. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02137-y 50 comments science
- Study of 378 German women and 118 German men finds that people who don't have friends of the other sex are most typically motivated by sexual attraction to would-be friends of the other sex, and/or a fear of seeming gay. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-021-02315-0 40 comments science
- Women report being happier than men are, and more depressed than men are. This gender life satisfaction/depression paradox holds true across Europe, building on research that has been conducted outside of Europe. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-021-02740-5 202 comments science
- About 9% of Americans reported having experienced exercise-induced orgasm. Respondents described a wide range of exercises (i.e., climbing ropes, abdominal exercise, yoga) as associated with their first exercise-induced orgasm. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-01996-9#citeas 33 comments science
- Domestic cats (Felis catus) prefer freely available food over food that requires effort - Animal Cognition https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-021-01530-3 16 comments science
- The Influence of Types of Stimulation and Attitudes to Clitoral Self-stimulation on Female Sexual and Orgasm Satisfaction: a Cross-sectional Study - Sexuality Research and Social Policy https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-021-00618-2 9 comments science
- Being more superstitious was associated with being more positively influenced by a placebo. In the placebo condition, more superstitious people memorized more words than less superstitious people. In the control, less superstitious people memorized more words than more superstitious people. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10339-021-01025-6 10 comments science
- German police officers (n = 2228) rate approximately one fifth of the people who they contact on the job as being mentally ill. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11757-021-00670-z 47 comments science
- Women’s Sexual Health During the Pandemic of COVID-19: Declines in Sexual Function and Sexual Pleasure https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-021-00309-4 15 comments science
- Men and women keep sex secrets from each other of different kinds. Only 5% of relationships dissolved after disclosure. Men's disclosure was 4x likely to lead to disapproval than women's. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-021-09880-3 9 comments science
- The Role of Vision in the Emergence of Mate Preferences https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01901-w 4 comments science
- Researchers find that eye-tracking can reveal people's sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, and physical and mental health. [March 2020] https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-42504-3_15#enumeration 5 comments technology
- Survey of 1043 women finds that their sexual assertiveness is the variable most positively correlated with orgasm frequency and sexual satisfaction https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-020-09811-8 11 comments science
- Eye-tracking may be the closest thing we have to mind-reading: New study shows that visual behaviour can reveal people's sex, age, ethnicity, personality traits, drug-consumption habits, emotions, fears, skills, interests, sexual preferences, and physical and mental health. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-42504-3_15 7 comments cogsci
- Cognitive and academic benefits of music training with children: A multilevel meta-analysis https://rd.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-020-01060-2 3 comments science
- “My phone is listening in on my conversations” is not paranoia but a legitimate concern, study finds. Eavesdropping activity may not be detected by current security mechanisms, and could even be conducted via motion sensors (accessible to third-party apps without user permission in iOS and Android). https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6 5 comments netsec
- Phones may listen in on private conversations: The study’s findings suggest that eavesdropping activity would not be detected by current security mechanisms. Not only microphones, but also seemingly harmless motion sensors could be a potential eavesdropping channel in smartphones. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6 8 comments science
- Is your phone secretly listening to you? Study finds that widespread eavesdropping may not be detected by current security mechanisms. Not only microphones, but also smartphone motion sensors could be used to listen in on private conversations. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6 13 comments technology
- Is your phone listening in on your conversations? The study’s findings suggest that eavesdropping activity would not be detected by current security mechanisms. Not only microphones, but also seemingly harmless motion sensors could be a potential eavesdropping channel in smartphones. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6 21 comments privacy
- New research study finds that NBA players being paid high salaries tend to get slightly more playing time than their on-court performance suggests they deserve due to the sunk-cost fallacy https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-019-01641-4 39 comments nba
- Data science vs. statistics: two cultures? https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42081-018-0009-3 6 comments datascience
- Recent paper on gender bias in student ratings abandons scientific method to arrive at its conclusions http://rd.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10755-014-9313-4.pdf 9 comments science