Does women's hair signal reproductive potential?

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This article examines the relationship between hair quality, hair length, and reproductive potential in women. Findings indicate that women's hair can serve as an accurate representation of reproductive potential because older women generally have shorter hair than young women and health status is significantly correlated with hair quality.

Psychological aspects, Statistical Data Included, Women, Surveys, Mate selection, Hair, Genetic psychology, Evolutionary psychology, Interpersonal attraction

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A comparison of human aggression committed by groups and individuals: an interindividual-intergroup discontinuity

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Aggression committed by groups and individuals is compared by investigating interactions among 11 and 12-year-old boys who believed they were attending an ordinary camp. Results reveals that intergroup interactions were significantly more aggressive than interindividual interactions.

Evaluation, Aggressiveness (Psychology), Intergroup relations, Interpersonal relations in children, Child interpersonal relations

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Accentuation of information processes and biases in group judgments integrating base-rate and case-specific information

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Information processing in groups, base-rate neglect, and biases in group judgment and decision making are examined. The findings support a group accentuation tendency towards applying information-processing biases and the strategies used to integrate information.

Analysis, Judgment, Judgment (Psychology), Human information processing, Prejudices, Prejudice, Report

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