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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.

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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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🖥️ 🧠 **Slip Through the Chat: Subtle Injection of False Information in LLM Chatbot Conversations Increases False Memory Formation**

"_Results revealed that while the misleading summary condition increased false memory occurrence, misleading chatbot interactions led to significantly higher rates of false recollection_"

Pat Pataranutaporn, Chayapatr Archiwaranguprok, Samantha Chan, Elizabeth F. Loftus, and Pattie Maes. 2025. Slip Through the Chat: Subtle Injection of False Information in LLM Chatbot Conversations Increases False Memory Formation. In 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’25), March 24–27, 2025, Cagliari, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3708359.3712112.
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