News tagged with ambiguous faces
Does it matter if black plus white equals black or multiracial?
Oct 10, 2008 |
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"Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?" a recent CNN.com headline asks. The question of whether Obama should be considered black or multiracial has been a concern of the media throughout the campaign.
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Believing is seeing, when it comes to emotions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Folk wisdom usually has it that "seeing is believing," but new research suggests that "believing is seeing," too - at least when it comes to perceiving other people's emotions.
Psychologist explores perception of fear in human sweat
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 06, 2009 |
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When threatened, many animals release chemicals as a warning signal to members of their own species, who in turn react to the signals and take action. Research by Rice University psychologist Denise Chen suggests a similar ...
Men are red, women are green, researcher finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Michael J. Tarr, a Brown University scientist, and graduate student Adrian Nestor have discovered this color difference in an analysis of dozens of faces. They determined that men tend to have more reddish ...
Chimps, like humans, focus on faces
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A chimp's attention is captured by faces more effectively than by bananas. A series of experiments described in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology suggests that the apes are wired to res ...
For gay and straight men, gauging facial attraction appears to operate similarly
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women.
Face processing slows with age
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Identifying a face can be difficult when that face is shown for only a fraction of a second. However, young adults have a marked advantage over elderly people in these conditions. Researchers writing in the open access journal ...
Like mother, like daughter, at least around the eyes
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research suggests the old saying commonly told to husbands-to-be is true, that if you want to know what your wife will look like, look at her mother.
Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey calls
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue ...
Under pressure: The impact of stress on decision making
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Sep 15, 2009 |
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We are faced with making decisions all the time. Often, we carefully deliberate the pros and cons of our choices, taking into consideration past experiences in similar situations before making a final decision. However, a ...
Under Pressure: The Impact of Stress on Decision Making
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Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- We are faced with making decisions all the time. Often, we will carefully deliberate the pros and cons of each item, taking into consideration past experiences with similar situations before making our ultimate ...
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