The intensity of the neutral environment impact on humans may be determined by specific features space, including dead wood occurrence. Dead is claimed to disliked public because it reduces scenic beauty and recreational values forest. attractiveness a forest with its variants. Much known about preference for landscape wood, but there little information available how such affects person’s menta...

BACKGROUND Vitality at work is an important factor for optimal functioning and sustainable employability. To date, knowledge on how to promote vitality at work is fragmented. OBJECTIVE Contribute to knowledge on how to promote vitality at work. METHODS Determinants of vitality at work are identified from three scientific fields, and used in a comprehensive model. Regression analyses on cros...

introduction: to evaluate the quick cryopreservation technique on parameters of motility, morphology, and vitality of spermatozoa from normozoospermic ejaculates. materials and methods: in this prospective study, a total of 37 normal ejaculates were evaluated according to who criteria, then each sample was divided into two aliquets and sample was cryopreserved with quick freezing method. sperm ...

Waitresses completed an on-line survey about their physical characteristics, self-perceived attractiveness and sexiness, and average tips. The waitresses’ self-rated physical attractiveness increased with their breast sizes and decreased with their ages, waist-to-hip ratios, and body sizes. Similar effects were observed on self-rated sexiness, with the exception of age, which varied with self-r...

Mate-choice copying is shown when women imitate the mate-choice preferences of other women. We propose that the preferences of women with a pleasant character should be more influential than those of women with an unpleasant character and further suggest that this should apply only when the female demonstrates active interest in the male, rather than disinterest. Here, we presented women as hav...

MITJA D. BACK*, LARS PENKE, STEFAN C. SCHMUKLE, KAROLINE SACHSE, PETER BORKENAU and JENS B. ASENDORPF Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, UK Department of Psychology, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany Department of Psychology, Martin-Lu...

We conduct a repeated VCM (voluntary contribution mechanism) experiment using the strategy method. We compare a partner and a stranger design and find that participants in the partner treatment provide (i) higher initial contributions, (ii) higher contributions on average over all periods, and (iii) contributions that do not vary more strongly with past contributions than participants in the st...

Attractiveness plays a central role in human non-verbal communication and has been broadly examined in diverse subfields of contemporary psychology. Researchers have garnered compelling evidence in support of the evolutionary functions of physical attractiveness and its role in our daily lives, while at the same time, having largely ignored the significant contribution of non-visual modalities ...