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Women Prefer Calmer Guys

In a very interesting finding, researchers discovered that females in a study group appeared to prefer calmer, chill guys over their more active and on-the-go peers. The conclusion comes as a surprise for many scientists, as it contradicts some past investigations, but the new conclusions actually make a lot of evolu...

15 September 2010
06:10 GMT

Men See Women Depending on the Relationship They Want

Men are known for being attracted to either the face or body of women, but a new study suggests that the target of their eyes is in fact dictated by the expectations they have of the resulting relationship.In other words, if men are looking for a one-night stand or a fling, they are very likely to look at the woman&#...

15 September 2010
05:56 GMT

The Perfect Gift: Tell Her She’s Awesome Every Day

If you’re a man always on the lookout for the perfect present that can bring a smile on your lady’s face or brighten her mood (after it was you who crossed her, of course), here’s a solution for you: tell her she’s awesome.You can do so every single day for a determined period of time or only ...

25 August 2010
13:31 GMT

Women Compensate Energy More than Men Do

The consumption of caloric liquids has different effects on the short-term total energy intake in men and women, a new scientific study from the Oxford Brookes University shows.This is the first study of its kind to compare the compensation effect of liquid calories on the short-term energy spending by gender, and it...

25 August 2010
10:57 GMT

Expert Warns of the Dangers of ‘Vengeance Surgery’

Figures indicate that most plastic surgery patients are women, with an increasing number coming off a bad breakup. The phenomenon is called “vengeance surgery” and should be treated with due attention, a surgeon warns.People go under the knife for a variety of reasons. Whichever they may be, though, they ...

14 August 2010
07:11 GMT

Experts Cannot Develop an Universal Suicide 'Model'

In a finding that brings a new ray of hope for experts battling suicidal tendencies, scientists have recently determined that they cannot create a viable model to explain why people would want to take their own lives. There is apparently no way of accounting for why a man or woman may want to do this via generally-va...

13 August 2010
07:00 GMT

Female Bosses Are a Nightmare, Women Say

They’re too emotional, moody and often forget to leave their personal life at the door of the office: female bosses are a nightmare to work for and two thirds of women also believe it. Studies of this type have been done before – and with the same results. Both men and women would rather they worked under...

12 August 2010
16:41 GMT

Typical Personality for Male and Female Domestic Violence Perpetrators

A new study finds that female domestic violence characteristics are very similar to the three subtypes already established by prior studies in domestically violent men.The study's lead author Zach Walsh, assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Okanagan campus, says th...

11 August 2010
03:25 GMT

Attractive Women Overlooked for ‘Masculine’ Jobs

Attractive women are usually accustomed to getting their way with everything, it is being said – and that includes landing a job they’ve applied for. While this is true in most cases, a recent study published in the Journal of Social Psychology and cited by the Daily Mail, shows that, when it comes to job...

9 August 2010
14:31 GMT

Women Are More Organized than Men

Just recently, a survey showed that one in three men still had serious issues when his partner (wife or girlfriend) was behind the wheel because he felt she lacked concentration and was too easily distracted to be a good driver. At the workplace, though, the story is different, since women tend to be much more organi...

21 July 2010
16:21 GMT

Men Still Highly Uncomfortable when a Woman Is Driving

Jokes about what poor drivers women are will probably never go away, just as blonde gags are highly unlikely to ever go out of fashion. That is not to say though that all women are terrible nightmares behind the wheel, even though a new poll cited by the Daily Mail reveals that one in three men still says he&rsq...

20 July 2010
15:31 GMT

Third of Women Still Lie About Their Former Lovers

Though they say – and it’s been verified many a time – that the key to a healthy, successful relationship is honesty and communication, a new survey cited by the Daily Mail shows that women still try to dodge questions about their former lovers. The reason for doing so is that they feel embarrassed ...

19 July 2010
14:31 GMT

Wayne Rooney Is the Ugliest Football Player on the Planet

It’s been said before and we’ll say it again without running the risk of redundancy: people love charts and lists. Ever since one can remember, there have always been lists with the best-looking in a particular field, or the worst-dressed at a particular party or the hottest man/woman of the year. The Wor...

8 July 2010
13:31 GMT

Men Still Unaware of the Time Women Spend Making Themselves Pretty

Though today’s society encourages openness on topics ranging from health to personal problems, countless women continue to keep their partner in the dark as regards the exact amount of time they spend doing their regular beauty routines, which is completely understandable if one thinks about it. Still, even wit...

2 July 2010
16:11 GMT

New Proof That Attractiveness Is Relative

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
03:50 GMT

Hottest Fashion Trends Men Hate in Women

A while back, we were telling you about trends that celebrities have helped start and that regular women have picked up and made mainstream – and that men hated. Now, it’s time to have another, closer look, this time at clothing items. They’re hot, celebs love them, they bespeak a budding fashi...

4 June 2010
14:31 GMT

Women Exposed to Testosterone Become Less Trusting

Scientists have recently demonstrated that exposing women to doses of the masculine hormone testosterone makes them less trusting in others, and also more skeptical when it comes to accepting new data. The researchers behind the investigation said that, in their experiments, women who were given the chemical tended t...

25 May 2010
06:30 GMT

How to Boost Risk Tolerance in Men

According to a new set of scientific investigations, it would appear that men tend to experience an elevated tolerance for taking risks after physical contact. Investigators behind the new work says that something as simple as a pat on the back by women makes men more ready to take on situations that they would have ...

13 May 2010
04:09 GMT

Explaining Why Some Suddenly Die in Their Sleep

One of the most peculiar medical disorders is undoubtedly the sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome (SUNDS). People who develop this condition eventually die in their sleep, due to the fact that their heart simply stops. In an interview for Cinemafantastique magazine in 2008, “A Nightmare On Elm Street&rdq...

8 May 2010
05:01 GMT

Women with High-Pitched Voices Go for Manly Men

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
05:24 GMT

Jealousy May Really Impair Vision

In an interesting series of new experiments, scientists from the University of Delaware, in the United States, looked at how jealousy affect men and women's ability to literally see things. In order to do this, they devised a cunning setup in their laboratory, which revealed that this feeling could literally bli...

15 April 2010
04:34 GMT

How Women Perceive Abusive Partners

In a new study, investigators in Canada decided to look at some of the reasons women give for remaining in abusive relationships. For the purpose of the research, these were defined as couples in which the woman's partner or husband acted violently towards her, either physically or emotionally. Usually, you woul...

14 April 2010
06:58 GMT

Prettier Women Make Men Risk More

In a new study on male behavior, researchers determined that the presence of a young, attractive female in a group of men caused the latter to take more risks. The findings are scientifically-controlled proof of this phenomenon, which is known to most men. In popular culture, many movies depict scenes in which a youn...

20 March 2010
05:11 GMT

Women Act Nicer Overall If Given Testosterone

Over recent decades, the hormone testosterone has been associated with a host of negative, typically-male behavior, not the last of which was excessive aggression. While it may be true that, in men, the hormone might be related to this sort of behavior, a new study seems to suggest that this is not necessarily the ca...

15 March 2010
11:59 GMT

Why Break-Ups Turn You Upside Down

The vast majority of people who have just ended a relationship experience a surprising feeling, which is most often expressed under the terms “I don't know who I am anymore.” According to a recent scientific investigation, they may be spot-on with this statement. Researchers suggest that longer-term ...

12 March 2010
10:07 GMT

Gender-Discrimination Still Visible in How We Write

Researchers have recently determined in a new study that the way people write still has some remnants of gender discrimination in it. The names of men are almost always written down before those of women in an enumeration, the scientific paper has revealed. The work was conducted by investigators at the University of...

11 March 2010
10:49 GMT

Men Change Their Definition of Attractiveness if Under Stress

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
06:11 GMT

How to Determine If a Man Can Be Trusted

Scientists have recently published the results of a new investigation, detailing how to recognize which men are worthy of trust, and which are more likely to deceive. According to the investigators, it would appear that the width of a man's face, and more precisely his cheekbones, is a clear indicator of just ho...

8 March 2010
11:06 GMT

Gerard Butler Is Cosmopolitan’s Fun and Fearless Male for 2010

The latest issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, now on newsstands, brings a special list for women around the world, as the publication decided to celebrate the industry’s most fun and attractive men. So, it took at look at showbiz and came up with the coolest guys now working, including Kellan Lutz, Gerard Butler, ...

2 March 2010
04:15 GMT

Men Trick Women into Making Tea, Survey Reveals

The best way to socialize at work is around a steaming cup of coffee or, according to preferences, tea. While both men and women admit to indulging in this pastime in order to be able to catch up with office gossip, the former are going to great lengths in order to get out of the task of making tea, a new survey cond...

24 February 2010
13:41 GMT

Wives Are More Depressed if They Have Angry Husbands

Researchers were, in a new investigation, able to determine that hostility from their husbands makes women in marriages more likely to suffer from depression. The same study also showed that the opposite did not hold true. Husbands whose wives behave in a hostile manner are not affected mentally by this aspect, and l...

24 February 2010
05:42 GMT

Perfect Man Is a Geek with Stubble, Women Say

Geek chic is back again in fashion and, with each month, seems to be taken one step further than ever before. Fashion is not the only place where everything geek is causing havoc these days, as a recent poll conducted in the UK on 2,500 women and cited by the Daily Mail shows. While most of them would never admit to ...

19 February 2010
15:31 GMT

Ancient Rome's Valentines Were Not About Fuzzy Feelings

When people think about Valentine's Day today, they most likely imagine small cards that convey the warmest feelings of love, focused on the positive aspects of this strong human emotion. But historians argue that people living in Ancient Rome were not as likely to focus on the same aspects. Conversely, they wer...

14 February 2010
08:03 GMT

Men Feel Less Guilt than Women, Study Shows

It’s often said that women have this bad habit of becoming too emotional and, at the same time, feeling guiltier than they should about one thing or another. Recent research comes to show though that, comparatively, it’s not the women who overdo it with the guilt trip but the men, who actually feel less g...

27 January 2010
16:21 GMT

Positions of Faces on Screens Dictate Attractiveness

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
06:45 GMT

World’s Second Pregnant Man to Give Birth in February

When Thomas Beatie, a woman by birth but a man by papers, announced that he was about to have a baby as he had retained his reproductive organs, the world was shocked. It was March 2008. Almost two years later, another couple has the courage to step forward and to announce that they’re about to become parents o...

27 January 2010
05:58 GMT

Women More Likely to Ask for Directions

There is an old stereotype saying that men prefer not asking strangers for directions while driving, even if they are spinning in circles. A new scientific study appears to show that the same thing holds true for when men shop as well, as they are highly unlikely to ask for counsel or opinions from store staff. On th...

27 January 2010
04:49 GMT

Study Analyzes If a Parent's Gender Matters

Over the last couple of decades, sociologists have highlighted the fact that the traditional structure of the nuclear family is changing. In the United States, about half of all marriages fail, but only after the men and women in them have children. As a direct result, many kids are left with only one parent, and som...

22 January 2010
17:11 GMT

Women Can Read Man’s Intentions in His Eyes, Study Shows

Women looking to find an answer to the never-really-answered question of whether a man is looking for just a fling or a more serious relationship have only to look in his eyes to find it, The Telegraph says. A new study has demonstrated that men who aren’t in it for a one night stand or just a fling will focus ...

12 January 2010
13:41 GMT

More Men Get Botox Injections, Report Reveals

Many still consider plastic surgery and beauty treatments as the exclusive prerogative of women, but that has long ceased to be the case. With the rise of new beauty trends for men and the change in accepted (role) models, together with the tightening of the competition on the job market, men have been pushed towards...

8 January 2010
15:31 GMT

Vital Steps to Becoming a Perfect Girl

Ask any woman out there and they’ll tell you that being a girl is not easy. Quite far from it, actually. Now, thanks to a new online guide by WikiHow, all women not exactly sure of what to do or say to be “perfect” have a solution for their problem. Even more, said solution comes in several, easy-to...

8 January 2010
13:31 GMT

Men Say Women Are Overdoing It with the Makeup

They say one can never have too much of a good thing, but experience and common sense have repeatedly shown us that, indeed, too much of something can, eventually, turn for the worse. The same goes for the women and makeup combination, with men taking part in a new survey saying they wished their partners would stop ...

6 January 2010
13:21 GMT

Math Skills Comparable in Both Genders

The long-term belief that boys are better at mathematics than girls appears to have no foundation in facts, researchers behind a new scientific study report. They reveal that an international survey that looked at numerous men and women across the globe and assessed their mathematical training found no major discrepa...

6 January 2010
08:52 GMT

Rachel Weisz Voted Top Marriage Material by Esquire

The “Women We Love” issue of Esquire magazine, the February issue, is out at newsstands tomorrow but, for those wondering about who made the cut and who didn’t, we should mention that British actress Rachel Weisz was named top marriage material. At the opposite pole – no surprise there –...

6 January 2010
05:45 GMT

Psychologists Explain Why High-Profile Men Cheat on Their Wives

Golfer Tiger Woods, talk show personality David Letterman, former senator John Edwards and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford have all been involved in highly mediated scandals because of their decision on cheat on their wives. The higher the position of the man in society, the harder his fall and the bigger the in...

31 December 2009
07:41 GMT

Women Love Their Phone More than Their Boyfriend

They say a girl can’t live without her girlfriends, with whom she shares everything from her deepest thoughts to the regular shopping sprees. At least, that’s what we’re occasionally told on TV, in books and many movies. As it turns out, a woman’s most prized possession is not a friend but her...

29 December 2009
17:01 GMT

Why Women Have a Better Sense of Touch

Men apparently can sense less than women, when it comes to touch acuity. One of the main reasons for this, scientists believe, could be the fact that women have, on average, smaller fingertips than men do. In a series of experiments conducted on college students, it was revealed that those with smaller fingers tended...

28 December 2009
05:57 GMT

Men Don’t Find Long Legs Attractive

The latest study by Dr. Viren Swami of the University of Westminster in London and published in the journal Body Image marks a victory for Miss Average, the Daily Mail says, in that it shows men don’t find long legs on a woman attractive. Wary of extremes, men would rather go for women who are proportionate in ...

9 December 2009
13:31 GMT

Why Angry Women Resemble Men

In a new series of experiments, scientists asked a number of volunteers to look at photos of androgynous faces, and determine which was male and which was female. The participants were very likely to say that people with lower eyebrows and tight lips – signs of anger – were men, while the characters with ...

7 December 2009
06:09 GMT

Women Can’t Sleep Through the Cries of a Baby, Men Can

Some young mothers often accuse their partner of pretending to be asleep when, in the dead of night, the baby starts crying and needs immediate attention. A new study cited by the Daily Mail comes now to show that this is actually true, since men are able to sleep through the noise made by a crying baby, while women ...

30 November 2009
14:21 GMT


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