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Why do we kiss? What type of kissing do men and women like best?
om an interview with William Cane, author of "The Art of Kissing": You list statistics—for example, 67% of men don’t mind a woman’s wearing lipstick when kissing, 53% of women prefer a clean-shaven man, and 33% of people open their eyes while kissing. Do you have favorite statistics? Women’s favorite spot to be kissed, other than the mouth, is the neck. Ninety-six percent of women reported that they like neck kisses, while only about 10% of men do, so a…
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Are Conan, Letterman and SNL educational?:
nda. If you don't follow the news and only want to learn the most obvious political stories, yeah, they can be educational: The debate on late night comedy has been inconclusive, with some scholars arguing that this genre increases political knowledge, and others seeing late night comedy as harmful to effective citizenry. We add to the debate and to the research on media effects more generally, by proposing a model that measures political knowledge. The model utilizes item response theory…
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Have nightmares where you’re attacked by a tiger? You should become an animal rights activist:
ey have more friendly animal dreams than the general public: This study examined the nighttime dream experiences of animal rights activists. The sample consisted of 284 activists who attended the Animal Rights 2004 conference. Participants completed the C. S. Hall and R. Van de Castle (1966) Most Recent Dream Survey (as cited in Domhoff, 1996). The data on dreams were compared with statistical norms on dream content developed by C. S. Hall and R. Van de Castle (as cited in…
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How to gauge if someone is in love with you:
ople who feel a connection naturally mimic each other. People who felt strongly about a romantic relationship they were in did not mimic an attractive, opposite-sex third party nearly as much: Based on the recent literature indicating that nonconscious behavioral mimicry is partly goal directed, three studies examined, and supported, the hypothesis that people who are involved in a romantic relationship nonconsciously mimic an attractive opposite-sex other to a lesser extent than people not involved in a relationship. Moreover, Studies…
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How frequently do online dating photos not look like the person?
3 were judged not accurate, with women's being less accurate than men's: This study examines the accuracy of 54 online dating photographs posted by heterosexual daters. We report data on (a1) online daters' self-reported accuracy, (b) independent judges' perceptions of accuracy, and (c) inconsistencies in the profile photograph identified by trained coders. While online daters rated their photos as relatively accurate, independent judges rated approximately 1/3 of the photographs as not accurate. Female photographs were judged as less accurate than…
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How well do prescription drugs work?:
t nearly as well as you might have been led to believe: Even the best drugs have imperfect chances of working for any one person. Asthma drugs work in about 60 percent of patients. Migraine drugs are effective in only about half of cases. Drugs for Alzheimer’s disease work in about 30 percent of patients. And those are exceptional results compared to cancer drugs, which at best work about 25 percent of the time. And: It’s been said, though, that…
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Can economics students be trusted?
sure doesn't seem like it. Tim Harford presents the evidence here: A recent survey by Yoram Bauman and Elaina Rose, two economists from the University of Washington, explains that in experiments, economics students are less generous, more likely to choose an unco-operative approach and more likely to accept bribes. And: Bauman and Rose, and also Bruno Frey and Stephan Meier, have shown that students of economics are less likely to contribute to university-nominated charities when invited to do so…
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Does the male/female wage gap extend to crime?:
oks like it. The Crime Economist has a new blog post that makes the case: Even in a setting where the tasks are relatively low skill and the work is independent of employer or customer discrimination, women still appear to earn less than men. If we compare not total amount stolen per crime, but amount stolen per offender the earnings gap between men and women grows even wider since women are more likely to commit crimes with others. Why might…
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