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I f you want to make your man spend a little more money, all you need to do is strut about in a bikini or other sexy stimuli, as such things make men extremely impulsive when it comes to taking decisions either related to money or diet.
Lead researcher Bram Van Den Bergh of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium found that the desire for immediate rewards increased in men who touched bras, looked at pictures of beautiful women, or watched video clips of young women in bikinis running through a park.
Van Den Bergh and colleagues rendered the bikini-effect powerless by satiating the stirred appetite with a different type of reward - financial security. It wasn't that the men were simply distracted by their sexual arousal, which caused them to choose more impulsively. On the other hand, they showed improved cognition and creativity after exposure to sexy stimuli. From the study findings, researchers concluded that there is one common appetite system in the brain monitoring our desire for a host of pleasures from sweets to pretty faces, alcohol to lotto winnings. When it is stimulated by a sexy picture or the smell of baked goods, we experience a general craving for anything pleasant. "Basically, you just want to be rewarded," Live Science quoted Barbara Briers, a researcher at HEC Paris School of Management, as saying. A sense of personal wealth depends largely on what we perceive to be the society standard. |
Actress Liz Hurley showed off her sultry figure in a sizzling photoshoot of her latest beachwear collection in India.
The 43-year-old star showed off her perfectly toned body in the photoshoot featuring the new beachwear collection, despite claiming that she hates to model in bikinis.
In an interview to Hello! magazine, Liz, who’s married to Indian businessman Arun Nayar, also revealed the secret of her svelte figure.
She maintains her body by eating “a lot less” and doing “a great deal more exercise”, reports The Sun.
The mum of one also revealed that she would love another child with hubby Nayar.
Actress Olga Kurylenko is unfazed that topless photos of her during her youth have surfaced – because they were taken “artistically”. A series of halfnaked snaps of the new Bond girl, 28, have emerged since she was cast in Quantum of Solace, but Kurylenko is not bothered by the photos, insisting they are not “unusual”.
She says, “There are no actresses who haven’t appeared naked. These things are not unusual. All the magazine pictures are artistic. I didn’t do any pornography. It was all done in silhouette. It was advertising stuff. It’s something I have done but it’s not what I enjoy doing. It was part of the job. I haven’t been modelling for a few years now. I don’t have to. Movies are my passion. I always have respect towards people and I do everything with love and respect.There are much graver things in the world to worry about.” Like getting married, perhaps? The new Bond girl d o e s n o t ruled out marriage in the future – despite having two divorces behind her at the age of 28. The Ukrainian actress split from photographer Cedric Van Mol in 2003, after four years of marriage. She went on to marry businessman Damian Gabrielle in 2006, but they divorced just one year later.
But Kurylenko insists she is open to getting married once again if she finds the right person. She says, “I have not been scarred by my two divorces. The important thing is that I loved them – and you cannot regret loving. I am glad to have spent a part of my life with my two ex-husbands. If I had to go back I would do it again. My divorces were not a sad experience. It’s just communication. People who surround us in our life exchange more and more experiences with us. I learned I had differences from them and they were different people from me. My ex-husbands were different nationalities but were both very interesting people. I don’t see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story.”