Chickens appreciate human beauty and rhinotillexomania

How do humans learn what’s beautiful in a face? Can chickens be trained to find beauty in human faces the way humans do?

Do teenage boys pick their nose? How often? Why do they do it? How do they feel about it? Is it pathological?

In this episode, Lu and Tirth discuss how to train chickens to become attracted to human faces and the prevalence of nose picking in teenagers.

Timestamps:

• 0:00 Intro
• 2:18 Chappell Roan; check yourself before you wreck yourself
• 9:56 Chicken preference study
• 22:50 Nose picking study
• 33:00 What did you learn today, outro

Article links:

• Ghirlanda et al., 2002. Chickens prefer beautiful humans. Human Nature. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-002-1021-6

• Andrade & Srihari, 2001. A preliminary survey of rhinotillexomania in an adolescent sample. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11465519/

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