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Body language can predict outcomes for recovering alcoholics

Feb. 4, 2013 | Filed under: Arts and Humanities, Media Release, News Feed, Science, Health and Technology | Tags: addiction, alcoholism, arts, Daniel Randles, Dept. of Psychology, emotion, Faculty of Arts, health, Jessica Tracy, medical treatment, medicine, Science, study

To predict whether a problem drinker will hit the bottle again, ignore what they say and watch their body language for displays of shame, a new UBC study finds.

For power and status, dominance and skill trump likability

Dec. 19, 2012 | Filed under: Arts and Humanities, Business, Law and Society, Media Release, News Feed | Tags: Alan Kingstone, business, Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Jessica Tracy, Joey Cheng, Joseph Henrich, leadership, politics, power, Science, social hierarchy

Finding the next Barack Obama or Warren Buffett might be as simple as looking at who attracts the most eyes in a crowd, a new UBC study finds.

Happy guys finish last, says new study on sexual attractiveness

May. 24, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed, Uncategorized | Tags: Alec Beall, bad boys, business, Culture, emotions, evolution, gender, happiness, health, Jessica Tracy, marketing, Marlon Brando, pride, Psychology, relationships, research, Robert Pattinson, Science, sex, sexual attraction, shame, Social Sciences

Women find happy guys significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding men, according to a new University of British Columbia study that helps to explain the enduring allure of “bad boys” and other iconic gender types.

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Body language can predict outcomes for recovering alcoholics

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