new scientist är som bekant en kär källa med trivsamt laboratoriemys. man kan bland annat få en snabbkurs i de senaste studierna om:
- att förälskelser inte är mer än en bit choklad eller ett släng av good old OCD / tvångssyndrom:
- varför killars aktier hos andra tjejer går upp när de är ihop med en ball tjej (aka cant buy me love-lagen):
"Such “mate choice copying” can pay off. If it is difficult to choose the best mating material, or takes a lot of time and energy, it makes sense to go with what works for the other girls.(...) Ben Jones at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and colleagues, showed 28 men and 28 women pairs of male faces and asked them to rate their attractiveness. The photos had been already been rated by 40 women as of about equal attractiveness.(...) Women found the men who were being smiled at suddenly more attractive, while men who apparently elicited no such smiling approval were pronounced less attractive."