In an incentivized controlled lab experiment published in the Journal of Economic Psychology, Miloš Fišar together with members of LEVYNA and other colleagues show that there are no systematic effects of ovulatory shift on salient behavioral outcomes like risk preferences, rule violation, and exploratory attitude.
Some evolutionary psychology theories suggests that the impact of ovulatory shift on behavioral outcomes may play an important role in economic decision-making. The authors of the study run an incentivized controlled lab experiment with 124 naturally cycling females to test these effects. Using a within-subjects design, they compared different phases of the menstruation cycle of their participants and found no systematic differences in their risk-taking, rule-violating, and exploring behaviors.
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In a paper published in Religion, Brain & Behavior, J. Nenadalová & D. Řezníček demonstrated that some study participants in a sensory-deprived laboratory environment sensed the presence of another person. This feeling was mostly associated with perceived uncertainty and only somewhat associated with psychological dispositions.
In a cross-national investigation published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, F. M. Saxler with LEVYNA’s E. Kundtová Klocová and other colleagues show that the COVID-19 pandemic affected young people’s normative beliefs about unpaid domestic work; and that this effect is stronger in countries with greater gender inequality.
