The Sleeping Beauty problem (Elga, 2000; see also Piccione and Rubinstein, 1997) is a philosophical dilemma related to conditional probability. It may be succinctly described as follows. Sleeping Beauty is put to sleep, and a fair coin (say, a nickel) is tossed. If the nickel shows heads, then Beauty is interviewed on Monday only, while if the nickel shows tails, Beauty is interviewed on both M...

The existence of a beauty premium in the labor market and the male–female wage gap suggests that appearance can matter in the real world. We explore beauty and gender in a public goods experiment and find similar effects. We find a beauty premium, even though beautiful people contribute, on average, no more or less than others. The beauty premium, however, disappears when we provide information...

BACKGROUND Facial massage is an extremely popular form of beauty treatment and is thought to rejuvenate the skin. We decided to study the benefits and untoward effects of this form of facial beauty treatment. METHODS One hundred and forty-two women (aged 17-63 years), who had received facial beauty treatment in three well-established beauty parlours in New Delhi, were entered into the study a...

The concept of facial beauty has been defined in a variety of ways dating back to ancient times, and while the definition continues to develop, it has become clear that beauty crosses ethnic boundaries and has a significant cultural and economic impact. Subconsciously, beauty is perceived by humans as a sign of favorable genes and increased fertility, both of which play a role in mate selection...

The challenges presented by sustainable development are broadly accepted, yet resource use increases unabated. It is increasingly acknowledged that while technical solutions may play a part, a key issue is behaviour change. In response to this, there has been a plethora of studies into how behaviour change can be enabled, predominantly from psychological and sociological perspectives. This has ...

BACKGROUND Occupational skin disease caused by wet work is particularly common in employees in hairdressing salons. The objective of this paper was to determine the frequency of glove use for hair shampooing. METHODS Data on the usage of gloves for hair shampooing were collected by covert observations in four cross-sectional surveys of newly opened hairdressing salons located in Cologne. Meas...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of promoting social interactions to improve the health of older adults is not fully established due to residual confounding and selection bias. METHODS The government of Taketoyo town, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, developed a resident-centred community intervention programme called 'community salons', providing opportunities for social interactions among local older reside...

I report, for the CDF and D0 collaborations, results from the 92-93 Tevatron Collider run concerning charm and beauty quark production and beauty meson decay properties.

This research was motivated by the high interest of trainees in successfully obtaining competency certification at Evi salon training and course institution Pariaman City, their enthusiasm for learning activeness process. Allegedly caused skills resources/instructors, interesting material delivered instructor during type is quantitative descriptive research. The population this study were 40 pe...

This paper contributes to the current debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetics as they apply to interactive products. Current disagreement centres around the question of whether beauty should be viewed as a continuous property of objects or as a rare emotional response to object encounters (Hassenzahl 2004, Frohlich 2004). Here we develop a new perspective of beauty as a complex psychol...