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Watching curvaceous women feels like drugs to men: study
Posted by wideant in Psychology & Psychiatry on February 25, 2010
It has long been known that men find an “hourglass” figure the most attractive shape for the female body, and now scientists have found out why.
Research across a variety of cultures has demonstrated that men typically find the curvaceous female form sexually attractive. Other studies have shown that wide hips in women are associated with health and reproductive potential, so the attraction makes evolutionary sense.
Scientists from Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia, studied the responses of 14 men with an average age of 25 to nude photographs of women before and after undergoing cosmetic surgery that redistributed fat from their waists to the buttocks to give them more of an hourglass figure. The operations did not reduce the weight of the women, but gave them an “optimal” Waist to Hip Ratio (WHR) of about 0.7. Read the rest of this entry »
Believers’ Inferences about God’s Beliefs are Uniquely Egocentric
Posted by wideant in Psychology & Psychiatry on December 13, 2009
Nicholas Epley, professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, led the research to examine the extent to which people’s own beliefs guide their predictions about God’s beliefs. The research showing that people are often egocentric when they infer other people’s beliefs. Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people’s beliefs.
This article said that The PNAS paper reports the results of seven separate studies. Read the rest of this entry »