Archive for September, 2008
Secrets of flirting revealed
Telling a prospective partner “I really like you” is likely to encourage the chosen target to reciprocate the feelings.
Research revealed that if a person shows someone their feelings, through eye contact, smiling - or simply telling them - they are more likely to return the sentiment.
Previous research has emphasised natural beauty and physical features such as facial symmetry or voice pitch.
But the University of Aberdeen study shows the science of attraction to be more complex.
It found “social cues” - someone’s efforts to show how much they like a person - are of great importance in the blossoming of mutual attraction.
Psychologist Dr Ben Jones, one of the authors of the study, said: “Our latest research highlights how social cues, which signal the extent to which others are attracted to you, also play a crucial role in attraction.”
The study, Integrating Facial Attractiveness And Cues Of Social Attractiveness, was published in the journal Psychological Science.
Scientists showed volunteers four flash cards, picturing a face with different expressions.
The face is shown making eye contact and not smiling; not making eye contact and not smiling; making eye contact and not smiling: and making eye contact and smiling.
A total of 230 men and women took part in the study at the university’s Face Research Laboratory.
Dr Jones said: “What we found was that the preference for the attractive face was much stronger when people were judging those faces that were looking at them and smiling.”
Attractiveness, according to the study, was how someone combined natural beauty and these “social cues”.
Dr Jones carried out his research with Dr Lisa DeBruine, also of the University of Aberdeen.
The pair will present their research at the BA Festival of Science in Liverpool.
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Walk may be associated with orgasmic ability
A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman’s history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.
Led by Stuart Brody of the University of the West of Scotland in collaboration with colleagues in Belgium, the study involved 16 female Belgian university students. Subjects completed a questionnaire on their sexual behavior and were then videotaped from a distance while walking in a public place. The videotapes were rated by two professors of sexology and two research assistants trained in the functional-sexological approach to sexology, who were not aware of the women’s orgasmic history.
The results showed that the appropriately trained sexologists were able to correctly infer vaginal orgasm through watching the way the women walked over 80 percent of the time. Further analysis revealed that the sum of stride length and vertebral rotation was greater for the vaginally orgasmic women. “This could reflect the free, unblocked energetic flow from the legs through the pelvis to the spine,” the authors note.
There are several plausible explanations for the results shown by this study. One possibility is that a woman’s anatomical features may predispose her to greater or lesser tendency to experience vaginal orgasm. According to Brody, “Blocked pelvic muscles, which might be associated with psychosexual impairments, could both impair vaginal orgasmic response and gait.” In addition, vaginally orgasmic women may feel more confident about their sexuality, which might be reflected in their gait. “Such confidence might also be related to the relationship(s) that a woman has had, given the finding that specifically penile-vaginal orgasm is associated with indices of better relationship quality,” the authors state. Research has linked vaginal orgasm to better mental health.
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