Summary: <p>Is beauty contagious? How the average attractiveness of a group of people is influenced by its members. Also, how the ratio of men to women in our social group meddles with our mating psychology.</p><audio><br> </audio><br> <a href="http://archive.org/download/pap-2015-05-05/pap-2015-05-05.mp3">Download the MP3</a><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><p><b>Read the transcript!</b><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/why-a-skewed-chinese-sex-ratio-doesn-t-spell-disaster-421fb866c7c4">Why a Skewed Chinese Sex Ratio Doesn't Spell Disaster</a><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/attractive-friends-make-you-look-more-attractive-d3be3317f36e">Attractive Friends Make You Look More Attractive</a><br> </p><p><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lllC0rMAiJk/VPg_VXokM9I/AAAAAAAABew/jVUCK3nT36I/s2048-Ic42/onemanfourwomen.jpg"><br> </p><p><i> One man and four women: new research shows how our 'mating strategies' (how we seek partners and what we find attractive) are influenced by the relative numbers of men and women we encounter.</i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b></p><p>Schacht, R., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2015). Sex ratio effects on reproductive strategies in humans. <span style="font-style: italic;">Royal Society Open Science, 2</span>, 140402. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140402">Read summary</a></p><p>van Osch, Y., Blanken, I., Meijs, M. H. J., & van Wolferen, J. (in press). A group’s physical attractiveness is greater than the average attractiveness of its members: The group attractiveness effect. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167215572799">Read summary</a></p>
