The emerging therapeutic potential of kisspeptin and neurokinin B

B Patel, K Koysombat, EG Mills, J Tsoutsouki… - Endocrine …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Kisspeptin (KP) and neurokinin B (NKB) are neuropeptides that govern the reproductive
endocrine axis through regulating hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) …

The role of art expertise and symmetry on facial aesthetic preferences

LCP Monteiro, VEF Nascimento, A Carvalho da Silva… - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Humans, like other species, have a preference for symmetrical visual stimuli, a preference
that is influenced by factors such as age, sex, and artistic training. In particular, artistic …

The Geneva faces and voices (GEFAV) database

C Ferdenzi, S Delplanque, I Mehu-Blantar… - Behavior research …, 2015 - Springer
Although many facial and vocal databases are available for research, very few of them have
controlled the range of attractiveness of the stimuli that they offer. To fill this gap, we created …

One's own and similar voices are more attractive than other voices

Z Peng, Y Wang, L Meng, H Liu, Z Hu - Australian Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The aim of the present study was to explore whether people consider their own
voice to be more attractive than others and whether the self‐enhancement bias of one's own …

Preliminary evidence of olfactory signals of women's fertility increasing social avoidance behavior towards women in pair-bonded men

C Oren, SG Shamay-Tsoory - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Previous studies suggest that women's body odor is perceived as more attractive during
ovulation and that exposure to women's chemical signals of high fertility leads to increased …

The factors affecting attractiveness of human voice

Y ZHENG, J SHANG, B LI, Y LIANG, J HE… - Advances in …, 2017 - journal.psych.ac.cn
Voice attractiveness plays an important role in interpersonal communication. Factors
affecting voice attractiveness can be divided into two aspects: related to the speaker or the …

The sense of smell in relation to our affective states and wellbeing

C Licon, C Manesse, C Rouby… - … international handbook of …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter presents the relationships between olfaction, affective states and wellbeing at
both psychological and biological levels. It first presents key aspects of the interrelation …

Mechanism underlying the self‐enhancement effect of voice attractiveness evaluation: self‐positivity bias and familiarity effect

Z Peng, Z Hu, X Wang, H Liu - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of the present study was to determine whether the self‐enhancement effect of voice
attractiveness evaluation is due to general self‐positivity bias and/or the familiarity effect …

Beauty and attractiveness in the human voice

BE Petty, AI Gillespie, S Shelly, AM Klein - Journal of Voice, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective The objective of this study was to investigate the difference between vocal beauty
and vocal attractiveness by determining whether perceptual ratings of vocal beauty and …

Is beauty only skin deep? Exploring the connections between makeup and perception

S Kuehl, S DeWild, J Mai… - Concordia Journal of …, 2018 - digitalcommons.csp.edu
This study explored college students' perceptions of the use of makeup. In order to
determine what effect makeup had on first impressions, an online survey was conducted …