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36: Hidden Persuaders

Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind

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The Influence of Book Covers and Dilated Pupils

An experiment on book covers reveals that men are more likely to pick up and buy a book with a woman on the cover whose pupils are slightly larger, due to an unconscious preference for dilated pupils being associated with attractiveness.

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