It seems that people are better at guessing the personality traits of individuals they find physically attractive, during brief encounters, concluded a new University of British Columbia study.Professor Jeremy Biesanz, UBC Department of Psychology, who co-authored the study with PhD student Lauren Human and undergrad... |
22 December 2010
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It's common knowledge that each individual's friends influence his or her idea of what is attractive and what is not. This is true regardless whether the person in question is consciously aware of this or not. But a recent investigation comes to provide even more credence to past studies, which demonstrated... |
8 June 2010
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Studies on the laws of attraction that govern the way we select our mates, are of tremendous importance for the field of evolutionary studies. Understanding them can lead scientists to develop new theories on the “engines” that drive our evolution, thus helping to explain the history of our species. In a ... |
6 May 2010
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It's an accurately established fact that men tend to prefer women that are similar to them. While this may be the norm in general, researchers have now discovered that, when placed under stress, males would rather select mates that are dissimilar to them, contrary to their own rules. The investigation that led t... |
10 March 2010
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In a new scientific study, it is revealed that people tend to rate a person's attractiveness and power levels based on the place their images occupy on a computer screen. This is especially true for women looking at men and vice-versa, researchers say, adding that these peculiar results merit more study. Details... |
27 January 2010
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow have determined following a new investigation that people in general find average voices to be the most appealing. At the university, researchers in the Department of Psychology have studied what is known as vocal attractiveness, a field that aims at understanding precisely how... |
26 January 2010
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According to a new scientific study, men exhibit much more consensus when it comes to rating attractiveness than women do. The paper, authored by Wake Forest University Assistant Professor of Psychology Dustin Wood, and co-authored by Queens College expert Claudia Brumbaugh, shows that women fail to agree on whet... |
27 June 2009
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A new scientific study released by experts at the University of Miami looks at the influence that personal traits such as physical attractiveness have on academic performances and on how students, both male and female, make use of their beauty. It has also sought to understand if a person's beauty is enough to p... |
23 April 2009
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During a new study, conducted in the UK, scientists discovered that women are more attracted to men with scars for short-term relationships, than they are to men with no visible marks. These results can be explained by the unconscious impression that scars leave in a woman's mind, as she usually associates them ... |
18 November 2008
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