News tagged with facial

Researchers discover new 'golden ratios' for female facial beauty

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (24) | 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but also in the relationship of the eyes and mouth of the beholden. The distance between a woman's eyes and the distance between her eyes and ...

Nonverbal communication of race bias on TV influences viewers' own bias

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 17, 2009 | 3.2 / 5 (9) | 2

Subtle patterns of nonverbal behavior that appear on popular television programs influence racial bias among viewers, according to research from Tufts University to appear in the December 18, 2009, issue of the journal Science.

Are angry women more like men?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 04, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (13) | 4

"Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?" wrote author Lynn Hecht Schafran. The answer, according to an article in the Journal of Vision, may lie in our interpretation of facial expressions.

Tactile input affects what we hear: study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Humans use their whole bodies, not just their ears, to understand speech, according to University of British Columbia linguistics research.

How could Santa know if you've been good or bad?

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By using technology to detect guilty expressions, of course. CSIRO is using automated expression recognition technology to tell whether someone is in pain and, according to computer scientist, ...

Marketing a 'spoonful of sugar'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Dec 15, 2009 | 3 / 5 (3) | 0

Your kids won't wear their seatbelts, take their vitamins or brush their teeth? A new study by Tel Aviv University offers a simple formula that will get better compliance in the kid department -- and has implications for ...