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The Science Behind The Mean Girl Phenomenon
Allure Magazine: We’ve all seen mean girls (and no, I’m not just referring to the movie). The backhanded compliments, the whispering, even the Twitter death threats (poor Selena Gomez!)—chances are, if you’ve experienced junior high
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Online dating secrets, as revealed by math majors
Los Angeles Times: The reasoning: Compared with women looking away from the camera, those who smiled or made what OkCupid analysts called a “flirty-face” tended to get about 1.5 additional new messages a month. But
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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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Power, sex and conventional wisdom
GULF TIMES: Would there be fewer sex scandals if the world were run by women? The question comes to mind in the wake of scandals that involve two powerful men, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The Language of Love: Word Usage Predicts Romantic Attraction
Scientific American: What distinguishes a fling that ends in tears from long-term love? Past research suggests that the most successful couples share common interests, values and personality traits. Now new research published in Psychological Science
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Gefährliche Seitensprünge
Kurier: Erst Schwarzenegger, dann Strauss-Kahn, jetzt eine Sex-Party bei einer deutschen Versicherung. Ist Treue nicht mehr zeitgemäß? Ganz im Gegenteil: “In unserer Zivilisationsgeschichte waren außereheliche Beziehungen Standard. Erzählungen über Harems, Konkubinen und Mätressen kann man