Reading other people's eyes is a valuable skill during interpersonal interaction. Although a number of studies have investigated visual patterns in relation to the perceiver's interest, intentions, and goals, little is known about eye gaze when it comes to differentiating intentions to love from intentions to lust (sexual desire). To address this question, we conducted two experiments: one test...

My research involves a critical analysis of the sexual cultures of young heterosexual Australian men. This research is driven by the need to understand and prevent the heterosexual sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS. I focus on young heterosexual men’s understandings and experiences of condom use and non-use, given that condoms are a key means of preventing the sexual transmission of HIV. I conduc...

Neuroimaging studies have found a correlation between activation in the anterior insula and love, and a correlation between activation in the posterior insula and lust. The present control-case study describes a neurological male patient, with a rare, circumscribed lesion in the anterior insula, whom we tested using a decision task that required he judge whether each of a series of attractive i...

from the anterior spinneret of a Spiny back spider (Castercantha sp.). The spider has been stimulated to secrete silk from its piriform gland spigots (orange and yellow). In the Spiny back spider, the orientation of the spigots is critical to the organization of the narrow-gauge secreted strands that are fused together to form the final silk strand. The scanning electron micrograph has been col...

The United States is distinctive among advanced econoS mies in that its employment laws and practices are governed by Employment at Will (EAW). Most other nations have variations on lust Cause dismissal rules. I argue that the U.S. preference for EAW is unS supported by concerns about net social or economic consequences. More centrally, I argue that the basic moral commitments that underH lie t...