Summary: <p>Is justice really blind? Also, what damage to the brain teaches us about the perception of attractiveness, and why men fall in love more easily than women. </p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/PsychologyOfAttractiveness201006/PAP-2010-06.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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iVSl5xUAS9w/TetuGymtXSI/AAAAAAAAAXI/7UDgWq9Dtfk/s320/blind-justice-movie-poster-2005-1020297435.jpg" border="0"><br> <p><i>"Blinded in the line of duty. His partners don't respect him. His wife lacks faith. Nobody believes in Jim Dunbar except himself." And now, perhaps, Ahola and colleagues. </i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show: </b></p><p>Ahola, A. S., Hellström, Å., & Christianson, S. Å. (2010). Is justice really blind? Effects of crime descriptions, defendant gender and appearance, and legal practitioner gender on sentences and defendant evaluations in a mock trial. <span style="font-style: italic;">Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 17</span>(2), 304-324. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218710903566896">Read summary</a></p><p>Carbon, C. C., Gruter, T., Grüter, M., Weber, J. E., & Lueschow, A. (2010). Dissociation of facial attractiveness and distinctiveness processing in congenital prosopagnosia. <span style="font-style: italic;">Visual Cognition, 18</span>(5), 641-654. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506280903462471">Read summary</a></p><p>Galperin, A., & Haselton, M. G. (2010). Predictors of how often and when people fall in love. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolutionary Psychology, 8</span>(1), 5-28. <a href="http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep080528.pdf/">Read paper</a></p>
