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Beauty and the Beasts: The Sight of a Pretty Woman Can Make Men Crave War
Scientific American: Show a man a picture of an attractive woman, and he might play riskier blackjack. With a real-life pretty woman watching, he might cross traffic against a red light. Such exhibitions of agility
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Fertile women are more prejudiced against strange men, U.S. study says
The Vancouver Sun: Women are more prejudiced toward male strangers when they are fertile, says a new U.S. study, which suggests bias is partly ingrained in human DNA. Researchers at Michigan State University asked 252
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Será que ele é gay? Mulheres que estão ovulando sabem melhor, diz estudo
Marie Claire Brazil: O período fértil muda muita coisa na vida de uma mulher – humor, desejo e, em última instância, maternidade. Mas uma recente descoberta de cientistas canadenses diz que ele transforma também o
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How Do We Recognize Faces?
How do we recognize a face? Do we pick out “local” features— an eye or a mouth— and extrapolate from there? Or do we take in the “global” configuration—facial structure, distance between the features—at once?
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Both mind and body play key role in problem solving
Yahoo India: A new study has confirmed that not only the brain, but other body parts also play a significant role in problem solving. “Being able to use your body in problem solving alters the
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News in Brief: Association for Psychological Science meeting
ScienceNews: Familiarity breeds congeniality Snap judgments about others sometimes depend not on what the person looks like but on whom they look like. Women tend to preferentially like male strangers who facially resemble the woman’s
