Summary: <p>Does being attractive always help? We discover the social advantages that come with being slightly less than supermodel material. Also, do attractive people have attractive brothers and sisters, and where are all the female comedians? Do women prefer hearing jokes to telling them? </p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/PsychologyOfAttractiveness201106/PAP-2011-06.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 width="400" src="http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2009/stylewatch/blog/091026/kardashian-500x375.jpg" border="0"><br> <p><i>Same-sex siblings, like the Kardashian sisters, tend to be similar in attractiveness. But what about opposite-sex siblings? </i></p><p>If you find the section on humour interesting, you might like <a href="http://psychologyofattractivenesspodcast.blogspot.com/2009/07/pap-august-2009.html">this episode in which I interview Norm Li about his humour research</a>. </p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b> </p><p>Agthe, M., Spörrle, M., & Maner, J. K. (2011). Does being attractive always help? Positive and negative effects of attractiveness on social decision making. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37</span>(8), 1042-1054. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167211410355">Read summary</a></p><p>Garver-Apgar, C. E., Eaton, M. A., Tybur, J. M., & Emery Thompson, M. (in press). Evidence of intralocus sexual conflict: physically and hormonally masculine individuals have more attractive brothers relative to sisters. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior.</span> <a href="http://dx.doi.org/">Read summary</a></p><p>Wilbur, C. J., & Campbell, L. (2011). Humor in romantic contexts: Do men participate and women evaluate? <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37</span>(7), 918-929. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167211405343">Read summary</a></p>
