Disgust sensitivity and attraction. April 2012




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Summary: <p>Why men are attracted to women who’ve necked a few too many Bacardi Breezers, how your reaction to dog poo is related to how you judge beauty, and why women’s sexual fantasies get kinkier towards the middle of the month.</p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/PsychologyOfAttractiveness201204/PAP-2012-04.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&amp;refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Pix7mV0LY_k/Uau5orxkURI/AAAAAAAABew/pCgmsznxCvI/s720-Ic42/Disgust.jpg"><br> <p><i>Bieber thinks you're ugly. New research out this month suggests that unattractive people appear especially unappealing to people who are sensitive to disgust in their everyday lives.</i><br> </p><p><b>The articles covered in the show: </b></p><p>Goetz, C. D., Easton, J. A., Lewis, D. M. G., &amp; Buss, D. M. (in press). Sexual exploitability: observable cues and their link to sexual attraction. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior.</span> <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.12.004">Read summary</a></p><p>Dawson, S. J., Suschinsky, K. D., &amp; Lalumière, M. L. (2012). Sexual fantasies and viewing times across the menstrual cycle: a diary study. <span style="font-style: italic;">Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41</span>(1), 173-183. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-012-9939-1">Read summary</a></p><p>Park, J. H., van Leeuwen, F., &amp; Stephen, I. D. (in press). Homeliness is in the disgust sensitivity of the beholder: relatively unattractive faces appear especially unattractive to individuals higher in pathogen disgust <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior.</span> <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.02.005">Read summary</a></p>