The biology of beauty
CAPTION: Composite faces of the 10 women with highest (left) and 10 with lowest (right) levels of oestrogen. CREDIT: www.perceptionlab.com
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The smell of love
CAPTION: Males who preferred female pheremones also preferred feminised faces (image on the right is 25% feminised; image on the left is 25% masculinised). CREDIT: Perception Lab (www.perceptionlab.com)
Rosy love life for red-faced monkeys
CAPTION: A male macaque with a reddened face.
Amorous ostriches
The courtship behaviour of ostriches towards humans is to be explained at a series of public events aimed at promoting science.
Marrying your ‘parents’
Psychologists have found that humans select long-term partners who not only look like themselves, but look like their opposite sex parents.
The perfect man?
CAPTION: The computer-generated image of the 'perfect man'. CREDIT: A.C. Little and D. I. Perrett http://www.perceptionlab.com
Proof of “beer goggles” theory
Scots scientists have established scientific proof of the "beer goggles" effect, the theory that uglier people look more attractive after a few drinks.
How parents affect our choice of partner
University of St Andrews psychologists have revealed that parents can affect our choice of partner in more ways than one .... by how they look.