In this episode, we look a little deeper into one of our more elusive video topics, namely why it is that male facial and behavioural dominance and masculinity can be predicted from the length of t...
2022-02-20 21:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, we discuss the evolution of various female bodily characteristics, including waist-to-hip ratio, breast size; the 'hourglass figure' and buttock fat, and discuss why preferences fo...
2022-02-10 12:16:49 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, we talk about why men prefer hairless women and what it suggests about the evolution of sexual dimorphism in humans. We then discuss why women prefer hairy men. However, strangely,...
2022-01-29 00:56:47 +0000 UTC View Post
A recent study by Hies and Lewis (2021) has shown that wearing a mask increases perceived physical attractiveness. This stands in contrast to a 2016 study which showed the opposite. Why has this ha...
2022-01-19 22:20:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, we talk about the evolutionary reasons why the most attractive couples have a 26% higher chance of giving birth to a daughter than the average couple. We discuss whether their attr...
2022-01-06 01:46:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest host, Simon Groome, talks about the relative effects and severity of ageing in men as compared with women. With reference to Bovet's paper, this leads us to talk about whether female attracti...
2021-12-12 00:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Men and women value attractiveness differently with contemporary research showing a asymmetric distribution of the halo effect and the benefits it provides to one's desirability. The Halo effect ha...
2021-11-27 04:52:56 +0000 UTC View Post
For decades, the consensus on male facial robusticity has been that it evolved due to the dietary needs of our early hominin ancestors (see a picture below of what we believe the Australopithicus A...
2021-11-06 06:05:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, I interview JCTheCatalyst, known on Tiktok (170K) for his facial aesthetics videos and we discuss some of the lesser known things people can do to improve the way they look, as wel...
2021-10-31 04:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Is there such thing as being too attractive? Apparently so, as we look at a thesis by Mehng on a unique case of Debrahlee Lorenzana who was fired for distracting workers by being 'too attractive.' ...
2021-10-22 03:23:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we look at the opposite of Ep.12 which suggests that averageing faces results in more attractive looking composites. Much of the benefits of averaged faces are that they have unusually h...
2021-10-09 09:33:56 +0000 UTC View Post
When it comes to assessing facial attractiveness, 'Facial Attractiveness: Evolutionary Based Research ' by AC Little has proposed three tenants: Symmetry, Dimorphism and Averageness; it is the last...
2021-09-30 09:49:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Being unattractive is a disadvantage in many social interactions if you do the wrong thing or act out of line. These unusual behaviours are called 'norm violations' and as it turns out, there is a ...
2021-09-20 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It's undeniable that intelligence is attractive, but the question still remains whether it is attractive enough to outweigh physical beauty. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the importance...
2021-09-10 10:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Body proportions matter a surprising amount in the context of dating but much of it is only able to be understood in a realistic field study. In today's episode, we go over a unique speed-dating st...
2021-08-31 10:33:36 +0000 UTC View Post
"Attraction cannot be negotiated"
You may have heard of the phrase that attraction cannot be negotiated and in this episode it couldn't be truer. A...
2021-08-24 10:49:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Tattoos have gone from a social taboo to the upper echelons of high fashion with Jean Paul Gaultier experimenting with tattoo designs in much of his work in the early 90s. In this episode we discus...
2021-08-15 09:58:38 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we go over a relatively new concept called 'the fear of being single' (FOBS) which suggests that individuals with higher amounts of this trait, i.e. afraid of being single, anxiety,...
2021-08-05 02:15:52 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, we start at the Tokyo Olympics and end at a deep dive into why fringe internet communities such as 'incels' and 'femcels' are dissatisfied with their looks and dating by considerin...
2021-07-25 13:17:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we cover the negative sterotyping of unattractive individuals. You may have heard of the 'halo effect' where attractive individuals have positive attributes and traits granted to th...
2021-07-02 11:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we look at a paper by Groyecka Et al 2017 on how attractiveness is somewhat determined by non-physical cues of voice and smell among other factors such as personality, status ...
2021-06-10 08:54:53 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we dissect Cunningham et al's 1990 paper on female facial preferences in men and why more 'babyish' (neotenous) features are actually preferred over hyper-masculine ones. This podca...
2021-05-20 08:17:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Quite often, we see far too many people who become hyper fixated on one particular facial feature that leads to their insecurities. For many, it is often the lips or the nose which leads to a downh...
2021-05-04 09:38:57 +0000 UTC View Post