@psychoschmitt
Professor of Psychology and Department Head at Kansas State University, USA. Interests include personality, health, gender/sex diversity; Founded International Sexuality Description Project, Culture and Evolution, Dionysus Digital Health.
"abundance increases attraction to masculinity in male faces and femininity in female faces...points to a more general mechanism through which positive ecological conditions amplify attraction to sexually dimorphic features" assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-894...
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
"category-level prejudice, rather than partner-gender cues, organises stereotypes of bisexual people within the SCM, highlighting the persistence of bisexual-specific marginalisation" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Do you believe the world will come to an end within your lifetime, and does that belief change the way you see existential threats to humanity? One third of Americans answer yes to the first question; we venture to answer the second question here." doi.org/10.1037/pspi...
"when it renders cultural phenomena predictable, quantifiable, and experimentally investigable..If cultural ecology succeeds in doing so—progressively turns cultural puzzles into objects of explanation rather than exceptions—then it is the right framework." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"emerging perspectives in historical psychology...emphasizes psychological patterns evaluated as products of historically unfolding social change rather than as static cross-sectional regularities...Gender Equality Paradox cross-nationally and cross-temporally" academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
NLP across cultures...Hou, D. X., Thapa, S., & Tay, L. (2026). Bridging cultures in the era of big data: A cross-language equivalence framework in machine-learning research with social media texts. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Psychologists clash over the safety and effects of the cry it out parenting strategy
Cross-sex and intrasexual theory of mind..."Men overestimated women's desire for sexual variety...Unexpectedly, women showed similar biases when estimating the desires of men...both men and women overestimated the sexual desired of their same sex peers." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The interdisciplinary journal "Culture and Evolution" brings all the scientific tools for studying culture and evolution to the same table…publication fees waived for papers submitted by Dec 31, 2026; registered reports and replication studies welcomed! submit.akademiai.com/cultev/index...
This is consistent with earlier psychometric work that suggests 5-7 is the best response scale options, but good to see that the finding holds up in contemporary research. Also, good to see that labeling scales whether anchored or not has little impact on findings. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...
Gender differences in emotional disconnection and emotional loneliness in romantic couples: a 3-day ecological momentary assessment study www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
"daily study of psychopathy and Machiavellianism states...covariance higher between-person, compared to
within-person...different pattern of fluctuations over time...qualitatively different constructs linked by antisocial"
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35,000 participants, 25 countries..."replicated gender differences in sexual attraction to preferred and non-preferred gender...gender typicality (self-rated femininity for women and masculinity for men) positively associated with attraction to preferred gender" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"people from cultures with strict social norms tend to be less skilled at coming up with funny material compared to those from more relaxed cultures" www.psypost.org/cultural-tig... doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
Job Alert: Want to come work in a great Psychology Department? Able to teach within Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience areas? Well, we have a spot you'll love full well here in Kansas! Applications close March 1, 2026; Anticipated pay range $70,000 annually careers.k-state.edu/jobs/teachin...
"71 countries with diverse national incomes...perceived economic inequality predicts personal well-being more strongly than objective inequality" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"More extraverted and open individuals felt better and were less likely to leave their jobs when these traits were strongly demanded by their work" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"14,532 participants across 42 societies...sex similarities and differences in the strength of social motives across adulthood and sociocultural contexts, employing generalized additive models that account for spatial autocorrelation" royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
"LinkedIn microdata...Big 5 personality traits from facial images 96,000 MBA grads...predicts school rank, job matching, compensation...individuals sort into occupations where personality valued and earn higher wages when traits align with occupational demands" www.nber.org/system/files...
Pick your relationships wisely!
For both men & women, their partner's conscientiousness predicted their own future job satisfaction, income, and likelihood of promotion, even after accounting for their own conscientiousness.
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"Criminals and government officials are barely hiding their schemes, and their brazenness is meant to make us feel helpless, to think that nothing can be done. That is false. We already have the legal tools to fight corruption. We just need to use them." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
"as wealthier countries increasingly prioritize individualism over collectivism, the gender gap in specifically communal values (rather than other values) widens in ways that may exacerbate gender differences in interest for care economy careers" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
"although older adults experience neural decline in some areas, they’re actually more likely...to regulate their emotions and reduce impact of negative information. They’re not losing their ability to care. They’re becoming more strategic about what they care about"
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"traditional and integrative worldviews appear positively related to mental health, while the post-modern had contrasting results, and the modern worldview appeared to have a predominantly negative relationship to mental health" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"the size of a country’s cosmetics industry may be directly linked to how much fathers contribute to childcare and the level of economic inequality within that society" www.psypost.org/new-research...
"higher perceived stress was significantly associated with
lower sexual desire or arousal...elevated stress levels
may have a stronger impact on women’s sexual functioning, as engaging in reproductive behavior under higher stress may be less advantageous" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"experience sampling with adolescents...being good leads to being well...virtues like compassion, patience, and self-control might benefit their possessors" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
"study supports a putative universality of attractiveness halo effects and also contributes to a deeper understanding of subtle variations in the halo effects of men’s and women’s attractiveness in more individualistic versus more collectivistic cultures"
