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Why Movies Like Oscar-Winning ‘Undefeated’ Make Grown Men (and Women) Cry

Why Movies Like Oscar-Winning ‘Undefeated’ Make Grown Men (and Women) Cry | Science News | Scoop.it

The newly minted Oscar winner for best documentary, Undefeated, has left many critics gushing—with praise, but also tears. The true-life sports tale follows a struggling high school football team in a poor area of Memphis, Tennessee, whose fortunes begin to turn under the guidance of a devoted and determined coach. The emotional story has reduced folks at Forbes, Esquire, and other media outlets to sniffles and sobs. It made us wonder: What actually causes people to cry at movies?

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CHOOSERS CAN’T BE BEGGARS: WHAT DO ONLINE DATING CONSUMERS REALLY LOOK FOR? | Marriage 3.0 | Big Think

CHOOSERS CAN’T BE BEGGARS:  WHAT DO ONLINE DATING CONSUMERS REALLY LOOK FOR? | Marriage 3.0 | Big Think | Science News | Scoop.it

AnswerLab took their eye-tracking devices to a San Francisco café and had participants view different profiles from Match.com and eHarmony. Their technology allowed them to measure gaze patterns precisely, and to determine how much time each subject-consumer spent viewing different elements of each profile.

AnswerLab discovered that women are more “careful consumers” of, well, other humans—as potential mates. Women spent nearly 50% more time than men to assess whether someone’s profile might be a match.

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The growing science of sex difference

The headline at the online magazine Miller-McCune.com just about says it all: "Sex on the Brain Proves Costly for Men." In an intriguing set of empirical studies just published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, a team of social scientists led by professor Sanne Nauts shows that the mere prospect of speaking with an unknown woman reduces men's (but not women's) performance on cognitive tasks.

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Girls Gone Boys Gone Wild: Altering mouse’s smell can seriously mess with gender idenity

Girls Gone Boys Gone Wild: Altering mouse’s smell can seriously mess with gender idenity | Science News | Scoop.it

A new study from Nature, claims that the brain pathway for sexual behavior in male mice are also present in the female mice. That suggests that their is potential for a female mouse to exhibit sexual male behavior. What makes it even more interesting is that these behaviors can be triggered by different smells. Like many other animals, mice uses pheromones to signal sexual behaviors, but what happens when you disables the part of the nose that receive these signals?

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Sex-specific behaviors traced to hormone-controlled genes in the brain

The new evidence shows that the sex hormones – testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone – act in a key region of the brain, switching certain genes on and others off.
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Is the female brain innately inferior?

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Gender Brain Myths

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