Do people appear more or less attractive depending on the company they keep? I employed normalization models to predict context dependence of facial attractiveness preferences. Divisive normalization – where representation of stimulus intensity is normalized (divided) by concurrent stimulus intensities – predicts that choice preferences between options increase with the range of option values. ...

More attractive women are more likely to be pursued as mates by men other than their long-term partner and, therefore, to place their partner at greater risk of cuckoldry (investing unwittingly in a child to whom he is genetically unrelated). Men partnered to more attractive women perform more mate retention behaviors – behaviors designed to thwart a woman’s infidelity. With greater risk of fem...

This study investigates perceptions of organizational image and attractiveness among 200 potential applicants for the Belgian Defense and the person (e.g., friend, parent) accompanying them to a job fair. The instrumental-symbolic framework is applied to conceptualize the key dimensions of an organization‟s image as an employer. The results indicate that instrumental image attributes predict pe...

Cultural inheritance and innovation is an important measure to enhance the vitality of traditional culture realize sharing national culture. Mongolian folk music, as part Chinese cultural resources, plays irreplaceable role in inheriting How better inherit music ethnic minorities has been a hot topic education circle recent years. However, when we focus on campus minority have pay attention ori...

Facial attractiveness is closely related to romantic love. To understand if the neural underpinnings of perceived facial attractiveness and facial expression are similar constructs, we recorded neural signals using an event-related potential (ERP) methodology for 20 participants who were viewing faces with varied attractiveness and expressions. We found that attractiveness and expression were r...

The vast majority of women in modern societies use facial cosmetics, which modify facial cues to attractiveness. However, the size of this increase remains unclear--how much more attractive are individuals after an application of cosmetics? Here, we utilised a 'new statistics' approach, calculating the effect size of cosmetics on attractiveness using a within-subjects design, and compared this ...

Article history: Received 5 June 2010 Received in revised form 11 November 2010 Accepted 14 November 2010 Available online 24 December 2010 This brief research note aims to estimate the magnitude of the association between general intelligence and physical attractiveness with large nationally representative samples from two nations. In the United Kingdom, attractive children are more intelligen...