Dr. Iñaki Echeverría-Huarte is a professor of applied physics at the University of Navarra in Spain. He asked 573 people assembled in a schoolyard to roam randomly through the space. Within a few seconds, 8...

Ladies' posteriors can be quite interesting to observe. The great Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as evidenced above, made a careful study of them throughout his long artistic career.But, unlike Renoir, we now live in an age of s...

I would guess that my only scholarly journal article has been read by a total of perhaps 10 people, including myself, the reviewers, and members of my family. It's hard to get people to read scholarly articles, even in t...

Men sort themselves within status hierarchies. Some people might assume that men at the top of these hierarchies are more likely to have more sexual partners. Although this assumption might be true for other fields, heav...

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports on a recent scholarly journal article which considereswhat is the aesthetically ideal shape for the male buttocks (content warning: nudity). The authors, who published in...

The Big Five model of human personality scores people along spectra of conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion. Recently, researchers Kätlin Anni, Uku Vainik, and Ren&...

Stockholm Syndrome is the name given to the psychological phenomenon of captives emotionally bonding with their captors. It's named after a particular bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden in 1973. During and after their cap...

In 1992, researcher Sir Mix-a-Lot released the res...  ...written by Barnaby J. Dixson, now a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia, and h...

As a general trend, heterosexual men have an interest in the bodies of attractive women. But to what degree does this interest change seasonally? Polish researchers Boguslaw Pawlowski and Piotr Sorokowski decided to find...

(Jung at Heart t-shirt on sale at the NeatoShop)We all know a**holes. And, at some point, we're the a**hole in someone's story about some a**hole they met.What makes an a**hole? By that I mean the person, not the anatomi...