The devastation caused by a broken heart has been a dominant theme throughout the ages of great literature and pop culture alike.

But a new Northwestern University study shows that lovers, especially those madly in love, do much better — almost immediately — following a breakup than they imagined they would. [continue reading…]

According to new research from the Universities of St Andrews and Durham.  Women see ‘masculine’ men as unsuitable long-term partners.

Conversely, the psychologists found that men with feminine facial features are seen as more committed and less likely to cheat on their partners.

The study, which is published in the current edition of Personality and Individual Differences, asked over 400 British men and women to judge digitally altered pictures of male faces made to look more masculine or feminine.  The participants were asked to predict personality traits including sexual behaviour and parenting skills based on what they saw.  [continue reading…]

Women who enjoy good childhood relationships with their fathers are more likely to select partners who resemble their dads research suggests. In contrast, the team of psychologists from Durham University and two Polish institutions revealed that women who have negative or less positive relationships were not attracted to men who looked like their male parents.

Due to be published in the July issue of Evolution and Human Behaviour, the study investigated evidence of parental sexual imprinting, the sexual preference for individuals possessing parental characteristics, in women. The team used facial measurements to give a clear view of how fathers’ facial features relate directly to the features of faces their daughters find attractive. [continue reading…]