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George Saunders: what writers really do when they write A series of instincts, thousands of tiny adjustments, hundreds of drafts … What is the mysterious process writers go through to get an idea on to the page?

National Corruption Breeds Personal Dishonesty A shady government influences the moral behavior of its citizens

Someone criticised the Special Olympics and Arnold Schwarzenegger crushed them Arnold Schwarzenegger has been in his home country of Austria lately enjoying the Special Olympic World Games, an international sporting competition for those with intellectual disabilities. Schwarzenegger shared a video of himself with some of the athletes to his 16 million followers on Facebook. 

A great read on our BodyLab study, giving it lots of context.

Who is the fairest of them all? Angelina Jolie or Deepika Padukone? Naomi Campbell or Madhuri Dixit? Or, perhaps, you prefer Sonakshi Sinha? One would expect questions such as these in cine fan clubs - not in laboratories. But the eternal question - what's beauty - is being debated by scientists. Attractiveness, some believe, is n…

If you like the BodyLab page then you rpobably helped us witht he BodyLab project some time ago. As promised, the first results are in.

Our first paper from the BodyLab project is out! In which we use innovative CGI and artificial evolution methods to explore what makes a female body attractive. Results: 1. Slenderness is important. 2. Narrow waists are much more important than waist-hip-ratio or other traits. 3. Theres more than one kind of attractive body. 4. Evolutionary integration favours shapeliness, bucking population-wide trend to slenderness.

http://theconversation.com/there-is-really-a-single-ideal-body-shape-for-women-38432

There is really a single ideal body shape for women? Is there an ideal body shape that is universally attractive? A recent study shows that beauty is more complex, and diverse, than that.

Please help us by completing the attached survey on attitudes to s*x. the info is confidential.

Attitudes to S*x - Please Help Us With Our Research We are finishing an interesting experiment on the way attitudes to s*x are formed, and why we suppress what we tell people about our s*xual histories. Dax Kellie has designed three great studies, and we ask you to do this one - it will take ~10 min.

First announcement - Cooperation and Conflict in the Family Conference First announcementThe Cooperation and Conflict in the Family conference will be held at UNSW in Sydney, Australia from February 2-5 2014. Nearby Coogee Beach is perfect in February.We will bring together leading economic and evolutionary researchers to explore the nature of conflict and co...

I F@#^ing Love ... S*xism martins.nunomiguelWhat do you know? The creative force behind science’s favourite Facebook site is … a woman.Holy mother of Christ.Just over a year ago, English postgraduate student Elise…

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https://www.socialsci.com/s/88ede6f026e2013019a8002590702d06

New Body-Rating Study underway - be a part of it Please visit our latest body-rating study and take 10 minutes to rate some bodies for us!

https://www.socialsci.com/s/108bc65025510130f444002590702d06

Hey BodyLab fans. We have a new study that should only take 10 minutes to complete on the internet. Keen to hear from women and men of all ages and nationalities. Please follow the link to do the survey, and please share with your friends.

http://www.robbrooks.net/research/studysignup

The folks behind BodyLab are looking for participants for a research project on attractiveness judgements. We need couples or single women and men (who are interested in heteros*xual relationships) and who can come in to our lab at UNSW's Kensington campus.

If you can participate, please follow the links and sign up. Participants will go into a draw to win gift vouchers.

Sign up to participate in our research projects Sign up to participate in our research projects We are always looking for subjects to participate in our experiments. Some of our studies require subjects who can come in to our lab at UNSW's Kensington campus (in Sydney, Australia). Others require only a few minutes of your time, answering questio...