Cause of Silence
29 12 2006Those of you who regularly visit my blog must have noticed that I’ve been “silent” for quite a while. “Why?,” you may wonder (or not, but you’ll learn about it anyway…). Well, the last month of the year got quite busy for me.
First, there was this conference on psychoanalysis and film at the beginning of December in Pécs, Hungary. Then I finished work on the upcoming website of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English (to be launched in a couple of days), and started to develop my brand new site which is designed to concentrate my “web presence” into one sole location. I’ll come back with the updates on this, but at the moment I’m not planning to close down this blog either (it will be my English language site, while the new one will be in Hungarian). I am also working on a CD-ROM for Hungarian Studies, and have joined the Hungarian WordPress team as well. And all these are only the “sideblog,” as I also need to evaluate essays, tests, etc. during the exam period… So, simply, I couldn’t come back to this blog as frequently as I planned at the beginning.
That’s all for now, and come back for the updates on my future website!
Two new studies show why some people are more attractive for members of the opposite sex than others.
The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.
The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.
The results were startling: women are part of this repugnant odor, and the other part is very attractive, resembling the smell of vanilla, and the third group have not felt any smell. The authors argue that the reason is that the differences in the receptor responsible for the olfactory system, from different people are different.
It has long been proven that mammals (including human) odor is one way of attracting the attention of representatives of the opposite sex. A detailed article about the journal Nature will publish.