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**Men’s Value for a Large Penis Relates to Threatened Masculinity, Dominance, and Aggression: A Test of Symbolic Self-Completion Theory**

"_Based on this and the idea that a large penis may serve as a symbol of masculinity, we hypothesized that feeling humiliated regarding failures to fulfill the masculine role increases men’s value for a large penis._"

Harmon-Jones, C. et al. (2025) 'Men’s value for a large penis relates to threatened masculinity, dominance, and aggression: A test of symbolic self-completion theory.,' Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 27(1), pp. 124–135. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000546.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Psychology #Masculinity #Academia

🇷🇺 **How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century**

"_Our findings reveal that serfdom resulted in high inequality and extraction levels as well as low social mobility despite of low levels of enforcement by the state. We compare our results with those for 1904 and find that, in spite of emancipation, inequality remained high during the nineteenth century._"

Korchmina, E. and Malinowski, M. (2026) ‘How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century’, The Journal of Economic History, pp. 1–42. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725101071.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Economics #Serfdom #Russia #Moscow #Inequality #C19th #Academia

🇨🇳 **Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China**

"_We demonstrate that recurrent flooding and prolonged droughts, combined with an unsustainable shift in crop production from drought-tolerant millet to less resilient wheat and rice, led to harvest failures and food shortages during the cooler and drier climatic conditions of the late 9th and early 10th centuries CE. Intensifying raiding from competing polities and climatic extremes further affected grain supplies for the late Tang’s northern military frontier and partly contributed to the sudden decline of the dynasty._"

Kempf, M., Depaermentier, M.L.C., Spengler III, R.N. et al. Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China. Commun Earth Environ 6, 1003 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-03038-x.

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**Enduring impacts of El Niño on life expectancy in past and future climates**

"_Climate projections under moderate emissions pathways suggest a cumulative decline of 2.8 years in life expectancy by 2100, amounting to US$35 trillion losses, with most of the monetary burden falling on the middle-aged population._"

Xu, Y., Zhu, W., Samanta, D. et al. Enduring impacts of El Niño on life expectancy in past and future climates. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02534-4.

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**Cultural moderation of demographic differences in narcissism**

"_People from higher GDP and more collectivistic cultures reported higher narcissism levels (particularly for admiration), with the latter effect challenging conventional views that narcissism is predominantly a product of individualistic societies._"

Miscikowski, M. M. et al. (2026) ‘Cultural moderation of demographic differences in narcissism’, Self and Identity, 25(1), pp. 111–141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2025.2593298.

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**The junkification of research**

"_As commercial publishing interests converge with new technologies, a system emerges where scholars increasingly bear the costs of low-esteem publishing that limits genuine scholarly contributions._"

Rhodes, C., & Linnenluecke, M. K. (2025). The junkification of research. Organization, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084251399576.

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