A growing literature claims beautiful workers receive higher wages. Using five nationallevel surveys, we find that in multivariate regression models there is no beauty premium. Most beauty coefficients are statistically insignificant, even in replications of published work. Simple model alterations, such as clustering on the primary sampling unit or redefining other covariates, eliminate much o...

INTRODUCTION Recently, McCall and Meston presented an assessment tool for empirically categorizing stimuli associated with sexual desire in women. Significant differences in cues resulting in sexual desire were found between women with and without hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD). AIM The present study examined differences in cues resulting in sexual desire between pre- and postmenopa...

INTRODUCTION Studies of ethnic differences in self-report measures of sexuality have shown East Asian women to be more sexually conservative and less sexually experienced than Caucasian women. There is also strong evidence supporting the notion of ethnic group differences in general measures of nonsexual psychophysiological arousal; however, there have been no previous studies exploring ethnici...

the special workshop of research on tehran was held in the second conference of the phenomenology of the urban landscape as “public space aesthetic “at the museum of contemporary art in tehran. visit of dr. “martine bouchier” from tehran and her interpretations on some parts of the city can be considered a chance for evaluating the approaches and intervening methods of beautification in tehran....

This paper explores the specific criticism of directed altruistic living organ donation that it creates a 'beauty contest' between potential recipients of organs. The notion of the beauty contest in transplantation was recently used by Neidich et al who stated that '[a]ltruism should be the guiding motivation for all donations, and when it [is], there is no place for a beauty contest'. I examin...