Summary: <p>Is blonde and red hair attractive because of how it looks, or because it’s rare? Also, “my genes made me do it”: can men (or women) blame their cheating ways on their genetic inheritance? And we also continue last month’s foray into the murky world of mate-poaching, and discover the differences between the sexes when it comes to detecting potential partner pilferers.</p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/PsychologyOfAttractiveness201410/PAP-2014-10.mp3">Download the MP3</a></p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q_6jmISvWto/Vj-VIOP58eI/AAAAAAAABhs/ZEtf4zTW3kA/s1600/6117414032_675cfc8f22_b.jpg"><br> <p><i>Some have theorised that red and blonde hair is attractive because it is rare. New research by <a href="http://www.xynnia.com/">Zinnia Janif</a> tests this idea. Image credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/qsimple/6117414032/">qsimple on flickr.com</a></i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b></p><p>Janif, Z. J., Brooks, R. C., & Dixson, B. J. (in press). Are preferences for women's hair color frequency-dependent? <span style="font-style: italic;">Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-014-0008-y">Read summary</a></p><p>Ein-Dor, T., Perry, A., Hirschberger, G., Birnbaum, G. E., & Deutsch, D. (in press). Coping with mate poaching: gender differences in detection of infidelity-related threats. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.08.002">Read summary</a></p><p>Zietsch, B. P., Westberg, L., Santtila, P., & Jern, P. (in press). Genetic analysis of human extrapair mating: Heritability, between-sex correlation, and receptor genes for vasopressin and oxytocin. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.10.001">Read summary</a></p>
