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Trusting Tiger Woods: How do facial cues affect preference and trust?

People respond to facial cues and this affects their level of trust, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research that looks at the way consumers react to morphed photo images.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

On Facebook, beauty is more than screen deep

Having attractive friends will make you more popular on Facebook, especially if you are a woman, according to a new study that takes Charles Darwin into the domain of cyber networking.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Catching vine weevils with odors

Catching the vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) is now possible with the identification of odours these weevils find attractive. Scientists of Plant Research International, part of Wageningen UR, discovered ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research shows that red is not a proxy signal for female genitalia in humans

New research from anthropologists at the University of Kent may have important ramifications for the future study of the role of colour signals in human social and sexual interactions.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

When ions get closer: New physical attraction between ions in quantum plasmas

Nowadays, ever smaller and more powerful computer chips are in demand. German physicists have discovered a new physical attraction that accelerates this progress.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

You need to be a healthy to be a heart-throb: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Men with strong immune systems are most attractive to members of the opposite sex according to a new study from the University of Abertay Dundee and partners.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When are consumers loyal to brands? New model helps explain

What makes consumers choose certain products over others? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research helps explain why consumers change their minds or switch their loyalties.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The survivors of a 13 billion year old massacre

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Milky Way galaxy is surrounded by some 200 compact groups of stars, containing up to a million stars each. At 13 billion years of age, these globular clusters are almost as old as the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Online dating research shows cupid's arrow is turning digital

Online dating has not only shed its stigma, it has surpassed all forms of matchmaking in the United States other than meeting through friends, according to a new analysis of research on the burgeoning relationship ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cosmology in a Petri dish

Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Mock atoms prove attractive: Researchers added first pseudo atoms to electronegativity scale

(PhysOrg.com) -- When studying an atom's ability to attract nearby electrons, scientists rely on electronegativity scales, which describe each atom's ability to pull in these negatively charged particles. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

What we want to see on TV: Handsome politicians

The better the looks of United States Congresspersons, the more television coverage they receive, shows a new study from the University of Haifa recently published in the journal Political Communication. The reason behind ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Preferences shaped by evolution draw voters to candidates with lower-pitched voices

Voters prefer to choose candidates with lower-pitched voices, according to new findings by researchers at McMaster University.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Dating drought or purple patch? How males choose mates

(PhysOrg.com) -- Males decide how much effort they put into courtship and which females to court based on how many others they have recently encountered and how attractive they were, according to a new study into the mating ...

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A new way to go from nanoparticles to supraparticles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling the behavior of nanoparticles can be just as difficult trying to wrangle a group of teenagers. However, a new study involving the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0