Annika From
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Annika From
@annikafrom.bsky.social
What are college students looking for on dating apps? And are they accurate at knowing what others are looking for? New data from our lab's dating app, Revel, reveals that users underestimate others' interest in long-term relationships. sites.lsa.umich.edu/revel/2025/1...
October 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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While having a threesome is perhaps the most popular fantasy, it is also the fantasy that is least likely to turn out well when people give it a try in real life. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
7 Surprising Facts About Our Sexual Fantasies
Who and what are we fantasizing about, and how do men's and women's sexual fantasies differ? New research offers surprising insights into our fantasy worlds.
www.psychologytoday.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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New AP poll on Trump/higher education:

Maintain fed'l funding for scientific/medical research?
62% approve

Remove colleges' tax-exempt status?
30% approve

Withhold fed'l funds unless they comply w/ Trump's demands?
27% approve

Overall on Trump/colleges?
56%👎, 42%👍

apnorc.org/projects/few...
May 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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New study links “destiny beliefs” to post-breakup contact and tracking
New study links “destiny beliefs” to post-breakup contact and tracking
A belief in soulmates is linked to increased efforts to monitor or contact an ex after a breakup, according to recent findings.
www.psypost.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks!
March 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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📖New research: Is having more attachment relationships better for well-being? Not necessarily. For anxiously attached people, more attachment figures may actually lower well-being.

Read the full study in Social Psychological and Personality Science: ow.ly/pjWv50VgqR5
March 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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We need to organize--let’s help each other.

NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.

I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.

Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
March 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“Stand up for science, stand up for students, stand up for the future” #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
March 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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2 PhD students recently met at a conference & Trump's slashing of research & science bound them

With only 3 other scientists they started a movement that's growing around the country

On March 7 in Washington DC, and state capitals, "Stand Up for Science" will take place

All details below & bravo!
‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests
New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies
www.science.org
February 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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When considering all data gathered from the five cultures, free choice and arranged marriages did not differ significantly in average love scores...Our data also challenge the Western perception that arranged marriages lack love.
Love Components in Free-Choice and Arranged Marriages Among Five Non-Western Populations From Africa, Amazonia, and Himalayas - PubMed
Two main ways to enter a marriage are through free choice and through an arrangement between families, known as an arranged marriage. In this study, we compared differences in three dimensions of love...
urldefense.com
December 15, 2024 at 2:50 AM