Is your cat a psychopath? Probably, researchers say
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ba9v/i...uiz-survey
EXCERPTS: . . . The researchers published the survey for cat owners to take online, here.
The researchers used the answers to these questions given by 549 cat owners who completed the survey to create a new criteria for psychopathy in cats. They started with the “triarchic” concept of psychopathy, where levels of boldness, meanness, and disinhibition have been used to measure psychopathy in humans. These three traits also emerged as factors that lead toward a psychopathic cat, the researchers wrote, but two more factors also arose: human-unfriendliness and pet-unfriendliness. They named this new method of measuring psychopathic cats the Cat Triarchic Plus (CAT-Tri+).
[...] Minna Lyons, another of the study’s authors, told Motherboard that they are all “crazy cat ladies” who among them study primates, rodents, and psychopathy in humans...
[...] All of this sounds like normal cat stuff, which the researchers told me may just be the case; it’s likely that all cats have an element of psychopathy, as humans understand it, they said, as these traits make good sense for their wild ancestors whose main goals were securing food, territory, and mates... (MORE - missing details)
He invests, she invests: What different things men & women do with money.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/...he-invests
EXCERPTS: Ron Lieber of the New York Times claims: Heroes or villains, winners or losers, real or imagined, our iconic investors are very, very male. But that may be a mistake -- because it turns out that women are often better at investing.
Fidelity offered up the latest evidence in October 2021: Over a 10-year period, its female customers earned, on average, 0.4 percentage points more annually than their male counterparts. That may not seem like a lot, but it can add up to tens of thousands of dollars or more over a few decades...
[...] Women's investment decisions tend to be based on different considerations than those of men. Men tend to be driven by a desire to improve their investment performance. Women tend to be more interested in investments that help them meet their life goals.
According to the Fidelity study, nearly three-fourths of millennial women ages 25 to 40 are now investing outside their retirement accounts. The findings show that two-thirds of young women see the value of funding for a specific goal compared to 56 percent of young men.
It begs the question: What factors guide the genders in investing?
In their academic paper, "Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock," Professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean reveal that men tend to be more overconfident than women in areas such as finance. This difference in overconfidence yields two predictions: men will trade more than women, and men's performance will be hurt more by excessive trading than the performance of women. To test these hypotheses... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ba9v/i...uiz-survey
EXCERPTS: . . . The researchers published the survey for cat owners to take online, here.
The researchers used the answers to these questions given by 549 cat owners who completed the survey to create a new criteria for psychopathy in cats. They started with the “triarchic” concept of psychopathy, where levels of boldness, meanness, and disinhibition have been used to measure psychopathy in humans. These three traits also emerged as factors that lead toward a psychopathic cat, the researchers wrote, but two more factors also arose: human-unfriendliness and pet-unfriendliness. They named this new method of measuring psychopathic cats the Cat Triarchic Plus (CAT-Tri+).
[...] Minna Lyons, another of the study’s authors, told Motherboard that they are all “crazy cat ladies” who among them study primates, rodents, and psychopathy in humans...
[...] All of this sounds like normal cat stuff, which the researchers told me may just be the case; it’s likely that all cats have an element of psychopathy, as humans understand it, they said, as these traits make good sense for their wild ancestors whose main goals were securing food, territory, and mates... (MORE - missing details)
He invests, she invests: What different things men & women do with money.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/...he-invests
EXCERPTS: Ron Lieber of the New York Times claims: Heroes or villains, winners or losers, real or imagined, our iconic investors are very, very male. But that may be a mistake -- because it turns out that women are often better at investing.
Fidelity offered up the latest evidence in October 2021: Over a 10-year period, its female customers earned, on average, 0.4 percentage points more annually than their male counterparts. That may not seem like a lot, but it can add up to tens of thousands of dollars or more over a few decades...
[...] Women's investment decisions tend to be based on different considerations than those of men. Men tend to be driven by a desire to improve their investment performance. Women tend to be more interested in investments that help them meet their life goals.
According to the Fidelity study, nearly three-fourths of millennial women ages 25 to 40 are now investing outside their retirement accounts. The findings show that two-thirds of young women see the value of funding for a specific goal compared to 56 percent of young men.
It begs the question: What factors guide the genders in investing?
In their academic paper, "Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock," Professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean reveal that men tend to be more overconfident than women in areas such as finance. This difference in overconfidence yields two predictions: men will trade more than women, and men's performance will be hurt more by excessive trading than the performance of women. To test these hypotheses... (MORE - missing details)