People judge others they consider attractive to be high in positive personality traits and low in potentially negative personality traits.
Researchers found more attractive people are more likely to be givers, and givers are generally rated as being more attractive.
Study tests the good genes ovulation shift hypothesis, which states women's preferences for certain male behaviors differ throughout their ovulation cycle. Researchers found no evidence that a woman's preference changes across the ovulation cycle. However, women tend to perceive men as slightly more attractive when fertile than during other cycle phases.
A new study reports people find puppies cutest just before they reach ten weeks of age. Researchers say this is around the same time at which they wean from their mothers and start to fend for themselves.
A new eye tracking study reveals intoxicated men spend less time examining women's faces compared to their sober counterparts, and spend more time looking at 'sexual' body parts.
A new study in Body Image reports women who evaluated as less attractive were more motivated to diet and be thin if they had a husband considered more attractive. The additional motivation to be thin was not apparent in women considered to be more attractive that their partner. In men, the motivation to diet was low, regardless of their own, or their wives' level of attractiveness.
According to researchers, children believe the less attractive you are, the less trustworthy you are.
A new study reports personal experience is key to our opinions of attractiveness.
A new study casts light on the neurobiological mechanisms which support people's voting choices.
Researchers discover the attractiveness of others can impact how much we lie and the extent to which others believe those misrepresentations of the truth.
