The Psychology Blog Of Bridgwater College; a link-dump of vaguely Psychology related pictures, queries, weblinks, comments, thoughts and theories...

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Dating Ad sites

Just to get you started... remember, you should have a pre-identified sample and (probably) a predetermined amount of Ms and Fs to study... I'd say about 30 of each is about right...

Here's some links:

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Here

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Waist To Hip Ratio Reconsidered



Here's an article that might be useful for some evaluation points when talking about the evolutionary theory and the WHR...

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The Matching Hypothesis and Celebrity



There's a page here about this... Look at it!

Can we think of any couples that aren't matched?

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Monday, November 09, 2009

Evidence That You DO Marry Your Father...



Research here seems to indicate that Freud and Bowlby etc might be right; we do end up marrying people like our parents and maybe this is due to a template for attraction / relationships developed at an early age?

Go find and then take a good look at your parents

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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Gay Men's Faces



Gay Men prefer Masculine faces

c/o of Ben W-B

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

More On Sexual Selection


Little article on Human Reproductive Behaviour

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Relationships


Lots of studies and theories here - could be useful!

Bits and bobs related to understudied relationships.

Some very surprising experiments on relationships.

A summary of the formation of relationships.

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Facial Symmetry


Remember what I said about symmetry and attractiveness? Here's the test.

Get a good picture of yourself and see what happens. Print out the results and let us all see...

Here's me as I am in all my asymmetrical splendour:



And here's the mirror combinations:





Mmmm....

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Ugliness and Aggression?



Is there really a link between how you look and how aggressive you are?

And while you're on the BPS Digest page, subscribe to it; lots of good stuff appearing all the time...

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