You may find it hard to argue against, or even to begin arguing for, the line of reasoning in this study. It shows how a people’s capacity to make moral judgments is related to the relative lengths of two of their fingers: “Testosterone administration modulates moral judgments depending on second-to-fourth digit ratio,” Estrella R. Montoya, […]
Scary coffee headline of the week: Two cups to incontinence
This new article adds fuel of some sort to the ever-brewing debates as to whether coffee has tremendously good effects on people, or tremendously bad effects, or tremendously few effects, or all of the aforementioned, or none: “Urinary incontinence: Could two cups of coffee a day cause urinary incontinence in men?” Melanie Clyne, Nature Reviews […]
Confronting the question “Do Hens Have Friends?”
Do hens have friends? The question finally got a good, hard academic look-see, resulting in this study: “Do Hens Have Friends?” Siobhan M. Abeyesinghe [pictured here], Julian A. Drewe, Lucy Asher, Christopher M. Wathes, Lisa M. Collins, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol. 143, no. 1, January 15, 2013, pp. 61-66. The authors, at the Royal Veterinary […]
Virtual Muscularity
Nicole Martins who is Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Telecommunications,Indiana University, US, has undertaken (along with colleagues from the University of Southern California, and the University of Illinois) a unique investigation into ‘Virtual muscularity’. The study sought to quantify the body sizes of male video-game characters to determine whether such images reflect actual bodies […]