Looking for advice on your investment portfolio? If so, you might be able to gain an advantage by making sure that your financial advisor is (generally considered to be) physically ‘attractive’. According to a new study published in the journal Management Science, they tend to give better advice than their less alluring colleagues. “In this […]
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Prestige-car ownership and sex attractiveness ratings [research study]
Those who wish to appear irresistible to others can always try sitting in a prestige car, say a Bentley Continental GT, in an attempt to boost their attractiveness. But, according to a 2010 research project conducted at the School of Health Sciences, Centre for Psychology, University of Wales Institute, UK, this strategy might work considerably […]
Does leg length play a determinative role for success in ballet? [research study]
A unique 2009 research project quantified (for the first time) the changes in elevation angles of ballet dancers’ legs between 1946 and 2004. Now a new study has examined (again for the first time) leg-length in relation to selected ballet performance indicators. “The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between leg […]
Why women wear high heels (new study)
“Despite the widespread use of high-heeled footwear in both developing and modernized societies, we lack an understanding of this behavioral phenomenon at both proximate and distal levels of explanation.” Prompting the development a new (experimentally-tested) hypothesis by David M. G. Lewis, Eric M. Russell, Laith Al-Shawaf, Vivian Ta, Zeynep Senveli, William Ickes and David M. […]
Rob Lowe’s Research on Men’s Ratings of Sexual Attractiveness of Adolescent Girls in Bulgaria
Rob Lowe and two colleagues write about their research on men’s ratings of the sexual attractiveness of adolescent girls in Bulgaria. Their study is: “Heterosexual Men’s Ratings of Sexual Attractiveness of Adolescent Girls: A Cross-Cultural Analysis,” Paul Bennett , Rob Lowe, and Hristina Petrova, Archives of Sexual Behavior, November 2015, Volume 44, Issue 8, pp. 2201-2206. The […]
Partially drunk people can appear more attractive
There’s yet another twist in research news about drunkenness and the perception of beauty. The 2013 Ig Nobel psychology prize was awarded to Laurent Bègue [FRANCE], Brad Bushman [USA, UK, the NETHERLANDS, POLAND], Oulmann Zerhouni [FRANCE], Baptiste Subra [FRANCE], and Medhi Ourabah [FRANCE], for confirming, by experiment, that people who think they are drunk also think they […]
Miss Poland’s Attractiveness: What, oh, what is enough?
Leszek Pokrywka, co-author of the seminal study “The Second to Fourth Digit Ratio and Age at First Marriage in Semi-Nomadic People from Namibia” [featured here a while ago], also played a leading role in analyzing what makes and what does not make Miss Poland attractive: “Body mass index and waist: hip ratio are not enough to […]
Attractions of the hip wiggle / Moves like Jagger in Finland
Consider the video below, with particular focus on any anteroposterior axial gyrations of Mick Jagger’s pelvis. Many believe, presumably not least Mick himself, that hip-wiggling manoeuvres are attractive. But how much, exactly? For the first time, results of a study which empirically investigates (and bears Mick’s name) has been published by a team from the […]
Male Avatars’ Dances – How attractive?
Does this ‘Male Avatar’ look attractive to you? What if he were to dance? Maybe you might form an opinion if you saw a video? In any event, you can participate in anonymous web-based research project now underway at the Universität Göttingen, in Germany, where Dr. Fink is a senior researcher. He heads the Evolutionary […]
Attractivenesses of Professor Buunk
Academy Professor of Evolutionary Social Psychology at the University of Groningen, Professor Buunk, has participated in more than 500 scientific publications. As an example, see ‘Does the face reveal athletic flair? Positions in team sports and facial attractiveness’ (Personality and Individual Differences,Volume 43, Issue 7, November 2007, Pages 1960-1965.) ( Co-written with Justin H. Park […]