Eyebrows play a surprisingly big part in helping people identify each other, and any change in their appearance – or even their removal – can cause identity confusion.
The lesson: eyebrows are crucial to your identity – they’re at least as important as your eyes, if not more so. If you put colored contacts in your [...]
Much of your identity is in your eyebrows
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 28 September, 2009 to the comment subset
Hair blindness: an excuse not to notice your wife’s new hair do
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 12 March, 2009 to the comment subset
It’s official, some people are just not capable of recognising a partner’s new hairstyle.
New research hints that human brains process hairstyles distinctly from other facial features. And just as a small proportion of people have trouble recognising faces yet otherwise see normally, others probably experience hair blindness.
Web altruism: in it for the hits not the giving of gifts
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 7 October, 2008 to the comment subset
Not to sound too mercenary, or put down those who are genuinely interested in helping others, but it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that people contributing to websites other than their own, are hoping their efforts will in-fact win them some recognition or profile as a result:
The success of “crowdsourced” websites like YouTube and [...]
