5 things you didn’t know about prostitution:
x workers interviewed for a study reported enjoying sex with their clients. On the other hand, being a prostitute makes a woman 100x more likely to be murdered. The Democratic National Convention or Republican National Convention coming to a city causes a 29-77% increase in the number of local internet classified ads offering sex for sale. 41% of surveyed online sex workers are college graduates. The "best" prostitutes actually make less money than average ones. Street prostitutes earn $25-30 an…
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How much money does a 5’6″ man need to make to be as attractive as a guy who is 6 feet tall?
bsp; Via The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement: Men who are deficient in one status category can compensate if they are high in another. Several studies of online dating have shown that short men can be as successful in the dating market if they earn more than taller men. Hitsch, Ali Hortacsu, and Dan Ariely calculate that a man who is five foot six can do as well as a six-footer if he earns $175,000…
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What makes you eat twice as much at restaurants?
ning with friends. Via The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement: At restaurants, people eat more depending on how many people they are dining with. People eating alone eat least. People eating with one other person eat 35 percent more than they do at home. People dining in a party of four eat 75 percent more, and people dining with seven or more eat 96 percent more. Join over 135,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.…
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Can happiness make you more perceptive?
a The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement: Research by Taylor Schmitz of the University of Toronto suggests that when people are in a good mood, they have better peripheral vision. In another experiment a group of doctors was given a small bag of candy and another group was given nothing. Then they were all asked to look at a patient’s history and make a diagnosis. The doctors who got the candy were quicker to detect…
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Who has the best sex and what can we learn from them?
bsp; Gay and lesbian couples. The primary reason is because they take their time. Via Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex: The best sex going on in Masters and Johnson’s lab was the sex being had by the committed gay and lesbian couples. Not because they were practicing special secret homosexual sex techniques, but because they “took their time.” They lost themselves—in each other, and in sex. They “tended to move slowly…and to linger at…[each] stage of stimulative…
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3 reasons why stuffed animals might not just be for kids:
uffed animals are great for children but do they have any real effects for adults? Yes. Studies show stuffed animals can: Make you more ethical. Help you cope with rejection. Stop you from getting sick. Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.
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What’s the connection between grocery stores and politics?
a county has a Whole Foods, there's an 89% chance it voted for Obama. Via The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion: If you find yourself in a Whole Foods store, there’s an 89 percent chance that the county surrounding you voted for Barack Obama. If you want to find Republicans, go to a county that contains a Cracker Barrel restaurant (62 percent of these counties went for McCain). Join 25K+ readers. Get a free…
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What’s an easy way to make sure you don’t overeat?
riety may be the spice of life, but it's not the spice of staying in shape. The wider a variety of foods at a meal, the more we eat: The number of foods available at a meal has been suggested as a major determinant of the amount consumed. Two studies conducted in humans test this idea by altering the number of foods available at a meal where participants eat the available foods ad libitum. In Study 1, dinner intake of…
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