The high cost of being cuckolded has been a source of a strong selective pressure on reproductive competition among human males. Although evidence for preferential investment in offspring based on paternal resemblance is well established, men may have undergone selective pressure to take into account behavioral resemblance as well. We tested this hypothesis using 277 undergraduate university students who responded to an anonymous survey about how they were treated by their father and their physical and behavioral resemblance to him. We replicated the effect of physical resemblance on paternal investment, and found that behavioral resemblance accounted for even more variance in paternal investment than physical resemblance. Furthermore, mediation analyses revealed that both physical resemblance and behavioral resemblance acted primarily by improving relationship quality between the child and the father. These findings are considered in relation to an attempt to develop more detailed analytical categories of paternity assurance tactics (Gallup & Burch, 2006).

In this experiment, we resolved a number of the primary methodological limitations of prior studies so as to reinvestigate whether sadness fosters affect-congruency in music choice. To this end, we manipulated sad as well as neutral and happy affective states, using well-validated film-based inductions, measured music choice after rigorously controlling for differences in musical content and structure between expressively sad and happy music options, and used techniques borrowed from experimental social psychology to mitigate the potential for demand characteristics. Confirming prior lab-based and naturalistic findings, participants showed an overall tendency to prefer expressively happy over sad music; however, individuals in sad affective states failed to show any absolute tendency to favor sad music, calling into question the notion that "misery loves company" with respect to music choice. Supplementary findings revealed that individual differences in reflection, a form of private selfattentiveness, were associated with increased overall preference for sad music, yet that this effect was not moderated by induced affect. In sum, the present findings help clarify how both sadness and selfreferential cognitive styles are associated with music preference.

Firestone & Scholl (F&S) rely on three problematic assumptions about the mind (modularity, reflexiveness, and context-insensitivity) to argue cognition does not fundamentally influence perception. We highlight evidence indicating that perception, cognition, and emotion are constructed through overlapping, distributed brain networks characterized by top-down activity and context-sensitivity. This evidence undermines F&S's ability to generalize from case studies to the nature of perception.

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic affected consumers’ access to oral health care. This study evaluated factors associated with teledentistry use among US adults from June 2019 through June 2020. Methods: We used data from a nationally representative survey of 3500 consumers. We estimated teledentistry use and adjusted associations with respondents’ concerns about the impacts of the pandemic on health and welfare and with their sociodemographic characteristics using Poisson regression models. We also analyzed teledentistry use across 5 teledentistry modalities (email, telephone, text, video conferencing, and mobile application). Results: Overall, 29% of respondents used teledentistry, and 68% of teledentistry users reported doing so for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. First-time teledentistry use was positively associated with a high level of pandemic concerns (relative risk [RR] = 5.02; 95% CI, 3.49-7.20), age 35-44 years (RR = 4.22; 95% CI, 2.89-6.17), and annual household income $100 000-$124 999 (RR = 2.10; 95% CI, 1.55-2.84) and negatively associated with rural residence (RR = 0.68; 95% CI, 0.50-0.94). Having a high level of pandemic concerns (RR = 3.42; 95% CI, 2.30-5.08), young age (age 25-34 years: RR = 5.05; 95% CI, 3.23-7.90), and higher level of education (some college: RR = 1.59; 95% CI, 1.22-2.07) were strongly associated with teledentistry use for all “other” users (ie, existing or first-time use because of reasons unrelated to the pandemic). Most first-time teledentistry users used email (74.2%) and mobile applications (73.9%), whereas “other” teledentistry users used telephone communication (41.3%). Conclusions: Teledentistry use during the pandemic was higher in the general population than among those for whom teledentistry programs were originally designed (eg, low-income, rural populations). Favorable regulatory changes to teledentistry should be expanded to meet patient needs beyond the pandemic.