Useful Science

Male faces, sex frequency, and organic beef

Episode Summary

This week we learn about attractive male faces, sex frequency, and organic, grass fed, hormone free, non-gmo beef.

Episode Notes

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This week we learn about attractive male faces, sex frequency, and organic, grass fed, hormone free, non-gmo beef.

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Show Notes

• Listener feedback on Episode 8 math anxiety study:
  • Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI study of social exclusion, Eisenberger et al.
  • Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain, Kross et al.
• The happiest couples have sex about once per week, and having sex more frequently is not associated with greater happiness.
• Women are not attracted to male faces morphed to increase their Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy characteristics (which correlate to how masculine a face looks).
  • PDF with morphed photos
• Facing a psychopath: Detecting the dark triad from emotionally-neutral faces, using prototypes from the Personality Faceaurus
• Machiavelli (Google Image Search)
• Machiavelli statue
• Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)