Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-19-2010

[andrewducker]

• Pretty women anger more easily
  Attractive women also had higher expectations of what they deserved.
  (tags: women power science psychology)
• Aerobic exercise triggers new cell growth in the region of the brain linked to recollection
  (tags: depression exercise memory neuroscience)
• US waves white flag in disastrous war on drugs
  Well, not completely. but it's a damn good start.
  (tags: war drugs mexico politics usa)
• Buckfast in 5,000 crime reports - I hadn't realised it was full of caffeine
  (tags: crime alcohol caffeine)
• LG's flexible e-paper - I WANT IT NOW!!!
  (tags: technology TheFuture e-ink)
• Edinburgh well-placed to recover from recession. Stoke-On-Trent fucked.
  (tags: cities economy edinburgh recession uk)

Comments

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

retty women anger more easily
Attractive women also had higher expectations of what they deserved.

This makes sense to me. As an ugly duckling myself I marvel at how people bend over backwards for my very pretty friends.

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

more later on that first bullet. I'm really bothered by that. I need to look at the study to define what "deserved" means before I go off on it

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

Ok. I was right. I can off on it now. It was a sample of 156 UCA female students. They rated themselves on an attractive scale and had others rate them as well. They then rated how they handled conflict on an anger to passive scale. Then they rated themselves on some scale (they didn't go into detail here on an entitlement scale (what they deserved in life) Seems the the blue eyed blondes had the highest degree of attraction on the self rate scale and it coorelated to the group rate scale. So every agreed that the blondes were more attractive. And then blue-eye blonds told the researches they handled conflict usually with getting "mad". Ergo, blondes get angry, therefore Attractive girls are more likely to get angry. The blonds also told the researchers they felt they were entitled to more stuff. Therefore, blonds are more likely have high expections of what they deserve, so if blonds have those expectations and blondes are more attractive that the others (them ugly ones), then attractive women are more likely to get angy and have higher expections of what they deserve.

I consider myself a fairly attractive red head and I have a very high expectation of what I deserve. It it simply because I have a high IQ and a high work ethic. I earn what I get and I don't expect anything to be handed to me. I certainly am not going to let 156 female students and a poorly designed study and a bad decision to publish in a BBC News page go unnoted even if no one reads this. I'm republishing in my journal.

Thank you Andy for bringing the link. It's news reporting like this that we see all the time and taints the minds of people because they belief the soundbites and they don't questions what they read. It is infurating.