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Surprisingly, Female Models Have Negative Effect on Men

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (46) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many studies have shown that media images of female models have had a negative impact on how woman view their own bodies, but does this same effect hold true when men view male models? A leading researcher ...





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Importance of sex-specific testing shown in anxiety study

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An Australian study has flagged an important truth for the medical research community. Like their human counterparts, male and female mice are not only different, their respective genetic responses can often be the reverse ...


What you eat depends on with whom you eat

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If you are a woman who dines with a man, chances are you choose food with fewer calories than if you dine with a woman. That is one of the findings in a study conducted by researchers at McMaster University.


Race and gender determine how politicians speak

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Race and gender influence the way politicians speak, which is not always to their advantage. Camelia Suleiman from Florida International University and Daniel O'Connell from Georgetown University in the US have come to this ...


Why Female Water Buffalo Have Horns but Impala Do Not?

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The reason some female hoofed animals have horns while others do not has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, even the great Charles Darwin. But now a survey of 117 bovid species led by Ted Stankowich, professor ...


Researchers Test Canine Tooth Strength for Clues to Behavior of Early Human Ancestors

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Measuring and testing the teeth of living primates could provide a window into the behavior of the earliest human ancestors, based on their fossilized remains. Research funded by the National Science Foundation and led by ...


Study shows male homosexuality can be explained through a specific model of Darwinian evolution

Biology /

created Jun 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 11

Reporting in this week's PLoS ONE, an Italian research team, consisting of Andrea Camperio Ciani and Giovanni Zanzotto at the University of Padova and Paolo Cermelli at the University of Torino, found that the evolutionary origin ...


Female supervisors more susceptible to workplace sexual harassment

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women who hold supervisory positions are more likely to be sexually harassed at work, according to the first-ever, large-scale longitudinal study to examine workplace power, gender and sexual harassment.


Tan is 'In': Study Finds Light Brown More Attractive than Pale or Dark Skin

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 28, 2006 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Some African-American stars have been ridiculed for trying to lighten their skin color, but many Caucasians go to tanning salons to darken their skin. A new study by University of Missouri-Columbia researcher Cynthia Frisby ...


When the magazine girl begs 'come hither,' the (female) reader yawns

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 05, 2006 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (13) | comments 0

For female magazine readers, sex doesn’t sell so much as it — bores. So conclude three University of Florida advertising professors in a new study that gauged young women’s emotional responses to ads featuring beautiful women ...


Changing fashions govern mating success in lark buntings, study finds

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created Jan 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study of how female lark buntings choose their mates, published this week in Science, adds a surprising new twist to the evolutionary theory of sexual selection. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...



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