Psychology: Recent submissions
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Gendered ageism and gray hair: must older women choose between feeling authentic and looking competent?
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 4 April 2021)Aging women frequently use hair dye to disguise their age in order to avoid being stigmatized as “old”. Recently, however, some have chosen naturally gray hair. Informed by Goffman’s theory of stigma, we investigated why ... -
Influences of Rearing Environment on Behaviour and Welfare of Captive Chilean Flamingos: A Case Study on Foster-Reared and Parent-Reared Birds
(MDPI, 8 April 2021)Behaviour signals the internal states that relate to an individual’s welfare and its development is influenced by the early social environment that an animal experiences. Husbandry practices can alter this early social ... -
Diminishing returns drive altruists to help extended family
(Nature Research, 15 February 2021)Altruism between close relatives can be easily explained. However, paradoxes arise when organisms divert altruism towards more distantly related recipients. In some social insects, workers drift extensively between colonies ... -
Mixture models as a method for comparative sociality: social networks and demographic change in resident killer whales
(Springer, 5 April 2021)In studies of social behaviour, social bonds are usually inferred from rates of interaction or association. This approach has revealed many important insights into the proximate formation and ultimate function of animal ... -
In traditionally male-dominated fields, women are less willing to make sacrifices for their career because discrimination and lower fit with people up the ladder make sacrifices less worthwhile
(Wiley, 2021)Women’s lower career advancement relative to men is sometimes explained by internal factors such as women’s lower willingness to make sacrifices for their career, and sometimes by external barriers such as discrimination. ...