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Body Shape & Gender: Differences in Desirability

Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyse the differences between male and female current body shapes and their ideal body shape, as well as examine the overestimations of each sex in regards to what they believe to be the most attractive figure. As a side hypothesis the difference between thinnest and heaviest acceptable figures was studied. One hundred participants completed the self report survey containing twelve questions in relation to body shape desires and preferences, with significant supportive results found for a number of our hypotheses though some others were not supported. The main conclusions drawn from this research are that females tend to desire a thinner body shape and are more dissatisfied with their current body shape than men, with both parties overestimating the extent to which the opposite sex finds a certain figure attractive. More research needs to be conducted to examine the source of these beliefs.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 19, 2009

Anxiety & Panic – Causes & Descriptions

Anxiety disorders are by and large easier to treat than some personality disorders but their affects are no less incapacitating than any other psychological disorder. In this article one will cover off what exactly is an anxiety disorder, the different anxiety disorders that there are including giving a brief description of each, as well as touching on the general causes of such disorders.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 14, 2009

Teleportation Achieved!?!?

This has absolutely nothing to do with the purpose of this website but is absolutely amazing – i heard about these experiments a few years ago in one of my university subjects, but to hear they actually achieve it is something entirely different.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart – a significant milestone in the global quest for practical quantum information processing.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 13, 2009

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Introduction
The paranoid personality disorder is not only sometimes difficult to diagnose but treatment can be even more troublesome. The main features of this disorder entail the sufferer to be excessively distrustful and suspicious of any and all people with no real justification for why.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 12, 2009

Personality Disorder Clusters

According to the DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition, Text Revision) personality disorders are described as “enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts” and “are inflexible and maladaptive, and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress”. In this article we will discuss the different personality disorders and the clusters in which they fall.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 8, 2009

Website Expansion

For those of you that frequent our site, it will come as no surprise to you that we have expanded the articles we were/are planning to write. We had always planned on running two individual websites – one dedicated to case files and forensics (lifetakers.com) and one dedicated to the psychology of killers and general abnormal psychological disorders (bloodsoaked-memories.com). This has proved harder to do than expected; in saying that, we have decided to merge both websites as we hadn’t even begun adding content to the second, and given the amount of time, effort, money and coding/design involved in ‘re-inventing the wheel’ we have decided to simply alter this website slightly and start adding the content here instead.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 6, 2009

Crime Scene Basics – First Responder & Forensics

The various forensic disciplines may run a vast number of tests once evidence has been collected from a crime scene but there is an immense amount of work that needs to be conducted before they get to this stage. This article will focus on those procedures and the job of first responders, whether they are police, paramedics or other emergency services, as well as the roles of crime scene investigators once they are called out.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 4, 2009

The Lockerbie Tragedy – Flight 103

In 1988 many horrific events occurred but our focus in this article will be on just one of these – a Pan American airlines flight en route from London to New York suddenly broke up in the air at just after 7pm on December 21st while at an altitude of 31,000 feet above Western Scotland. While the vast majority of you may not remember the actual event, one tends to believe that the second the name ‘Lockerbie’ is thrown into the mix the severity and heinous nature of the event may jog a few memories.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 1, 2009

Identification Through Forensic Testing

In the world of forensics there are an amazingly vast number of tests that can be conducted on a material in order to establish various things that may be useful in a trial. Listed below are just a few of the more commonly used techniques:

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