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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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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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Advice for Online Daters: If You’re a Guy, Don’t Smile
TIME: Men, if you’re trying to lure the ladies with a photograph, make like James Dean and brood. Women are turned off by guys who smile, according to a new study published in the American
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UBC study finds happy smiling men least sexually attractive to women
The Vancouver Sun: Happy smiling men are consistently rated least attractive by women when compared to proud or brooding men, according to a new study from the University of British Columbia. The finding, published today
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Seeing the Trees and Missing the Forest
The phenomenon known as holistic processing is best known in faces. Most people see faces as a whole, not as two eyes a nose, and a mouth. But holistic processing happens in other cases, too
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Study: Botox Users Have Trouble Reading Emotions in Others
TIME: We all know that Botox injections paralyze facial muscles — which is why it’s used between the brows to iron out frown lines — and can therefore make users appear less emotional. Now a