Social Sciences

Women prefer men with deep voices, research from Northumbria University has discovered.

Sarah Evans, a part-time psychology lecturer and PhD student, found that women consider deep voices more attractive, dominant, masculine, sexy, assertive, confident and friendly.

Male listeners also rated deep male voices higher than high-pitched voices for attributes such as dominance, masculinity and confidence.

Men’s voices are significantly deeper than women’s due to the

People’s perceptions of their own life expectancy can be linked to their decision on whether or not to invest in a pension, a study led by Nottingham University Business School has revealed.

Nottingham University Business School’s Centre for Risk & Insurance Studies commissioned MORI to conduct a wide ranging public opinion survey of 3,966 adults aged over 16 years across Great Britain covering various aspects of public perceptions of mortality such as general level of health, s

The University of Manchester’s School of Environment and Development will host the second of its annual lectures on 9 March.

Renowned academic Professor Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, will present ‘Immigrants and Citizens – A new architecture for political membership’. The lecture will take place in Crawford House lecture theatre 1 at 3.30. Professor Sassen is a wo

A concentration of senior citizens in a community can be a financial boon to a school district, rather than an adversary, unless the group includes a high percentage of newcomers with few, if any, emotional ties with the area, according to two Penn State experts.

“The ’aging of America’ will not automatically exacerbate fiscal strains on public school systems and their community residents,” says Dr. Michael B. Berkman, associate professor of political science. “A large in

Findings are bad news for women battling gender wage gap

Single men and women with college degrees are generally more likely to move to a big city to pursue job opportunities. Whether a married woman makes this potentially career-enhancing relocation depends largely on if her husband holds a college degree, suggests a study by economists at Washington University in St. Louis. “We are becoming more used to the idea of husbands as trailing spouses from newspaper and magazine artic

At his inaugural lecture Professor Nicholas Emler, the University of Surrey’s newly appointed Head of School of Human Sciences, addresses just what separates us humans from all other species.

Humans are not unique in being social animals as many other species are also undeniably social in one way or another. Many live in groups, communicate, co-operate, make sacrifices for one another, and share resources. However, what sets us apart from the likes of ants, termites and bees is t