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  1. Small World Research Project ( http://smallworld.columbia.edu/ ) - Remember Stanley Milgram's study to see how many "links" connect us? Well, these researchers are trying to test the notion of "six degrees of separation," or as they ask it "Can anyone in the world reach anyone else through a chain of only 6 friends?" You, your students, or anyone can become a participant, a "sender," at this site.
  2. Small World update ( http://smallworld.columbia.edu/images/dodds2003pa.pdf ) - A replication coming out of the above project was recently published in Science ; click the link here to read the article.
  3. Sexual attractiveness ( http://www.rz.unibw-muenchen.de/~p41bsmk/qmethod/webq/sexatt/attmpwq.htm ) – What do you find most sexually attractive in a male? Read the instructions and then take this online questionnaire to choose.
  4. The science of love http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/love/ http://health.discovery.com/convergence/scienceoflove/scienceoflove.html http://www.pbs.org/kqed/springboard/segments/59/ Three different sites explore the science of love.
  5. "Fertile women rate other women as uglier" ( http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994691 ) - Read an interesting article describing research about possible hormonal influences on attractiveness ratings.
  6. The Human Face with John Cleese ( http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/humanface/humanface.html ) - This TLC website accompanies its excellent video on the human face.  The site includes interactive opportunities to explore beauty and the human face as well as good descriptions of how humans seek to become more beautiful, what we consider beautiful and how we react to it.







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