Summary: <p>Being watched by someone who’s attractive can make you more trustworthy. We also find out how the type of relationship you’re looking for might be related to your ability to read faces, and discover whether it’s the face or the body that contributes most to a person’s physical attractiveness. </p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p>If you'd like to see the Sociosexual Orientation Inventory used by Sacco, you can <a href="http://www.larspenke.eu/soi-r/index.html">find it here</a>. </p><p><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/PsychologyOfAttractiveness200909/PAP-2009-09.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/-wNksd7_vuHo/U2DoF8R_3gI/AAAAAAAAA_M/bZrqwjVBcZE/s1600/OldFaceOrYoungBody.Gif"><br> <p><i>Face or body? Tom Currie and Tony Little have published new research showing whether the body or the face is more important to attractiveness.</i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show: </b></p><p>Smith, F. G., DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., Krupp, D. B., Welling, L. L. M., & Conway, C. A. (In Press). Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior.</span> <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.06.003">Read summary</a></p><p>Sacco, D. F., Hugenberg, K., & Sefcek, J. A. (2009). Sociosexuality and face perception: unrestricted sexual orientation facilitates sensitivity to female facial cues. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Individual Differences, 47</span>, 777-782. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.06.021">Read summary</a></p><p>Currie, T. E., & Little, A. C. (In Press). The relative importance of the face and body in judgments of human physical attractiveness. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior.</span> <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.06.005">Read summary</a></p>
