Primates & Facial Expression Complexity

Primates have been relying on facial expressions to delineate friends from predators for thousands of years and new research purports that increasing group size puts more pressure on the evolution of coloration across different sub-regions of primates’ faces. International Business Times reports on these new findings from biologists from the University of California Los Angeles.…

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Baby Emotions

Have you seen the viral video below? It’s already gotten over 21 million views and is rapidly spreading through the internet. The baby is 10 month-old Mary Lynne Leroux, who cries as her mother Amanda sings ‘My Heart Can’t Tell You No’, a song most recently popularized by Sara Evans. A recent Psychology Today article by…

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A Lying Politician: Rob Ford

Some dub him as the “Lance Armstrong of Toronto Politics” while others bluntly call him a “bully” and a “liar”. No matter what you label him, one thing’s for sure: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is under major scrutiny since he admitted on Tuesday, November 5th that he smoked crack cocaine, an allegation that he has…

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Beauty and the Face

Why is physical beauty so important in today’s society, especially in consumer marketing? Psychology Today reports on the unethical aspects of beauty as it is represented in main stream media.  They report that facial symmetry has been shown to be the key determinant in our estimating of what is seen as beautiful and what’s not.…

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