Andrzej Szmajke's research while affiliated with Opole University and other places

... Moreover, across all the nations, male and female silhouettes with short and long legs were perceived and likely less appealing. Hence too long legs were more appealing compared to too short legs (Sorokowski, et al., 2011). Furthermore, physical appearance specifically hips have affects to men and women which can influence to social relations. ...

... Furthermore, the present study showed that prior claims of the enhancement effect of red on simple cognitive performance could also extend to children (Kwallek and Lewis 1990;Mehta and Zhu 2009;Sorokowski and Szmajke 2011;Xia et al. 2016). Red enhanced the performance of congruent targets in color-unattended task. ...

... Narcissists exhibit multiple behavioral similarities with high T individuals as is evident in their resource allocation behaviors. Research relying on economic games shows that high narcissists, similarly to high T individuals, engage in lower investments for real monetary stakes with an anonymous partner (Böckler et al., 2017), make disproportionate claims to shared resources (Campbell et al., 2005), punish others more harshly-especially for low offers-both when assuming the role of the receiver and observer (Böckler et al., 2017), and endorse a pro-self (i.e., competitive or individualistic) as opposed to prosocial (i.e., cooperative) social value orientation (Czarna et al., 2014(Czarna et al., , 2016. Furthermore, there are multiple parallels between other status-pursuing behaviors of narcissists and high basal T individuals. ...

... In humans, a red face in an opponent signals anger, dominance, aggressiveness, and serves as a testosterone-based indicator of dominance, whereas pallor signals fear (Archer, 2006;Changizi et al., 2006;Drummond, 1997;Hackney, 2006;Hill & Barton, 2005;Montoya et al., 2005;Young et al., 2013). Furthermore, in humans, visual cues of red, such as red clothing or a red background, are perceived as more dominant, dangerous, anger, aggressive, attractive, and more likely to win a competition (Attrill et al., 2008;Dreiskaemper et al., 2013;Elliot et al., 2010;Fetterman et al., 2011Fetterman et al., , 2012Hill & Barton, 2005;Hagemann et al., 2008;Peromaa & Olkkonen, 2019;Piatti et al., 2012;Re et al., 2011;Sorokowski et al., 2014;Wiedemann et al., 2015;Young et al. 2013). For instance, Hill and Barton (2005) found that athletes randomly assigned red sportswear (rather than blue) were more likely to win in combat sports at the 2004 Olympic Games. ...

... Relative leg length is usually specified as a leg-to-torso ratio (LTR): when the leg length is measured from the perineum to the ankle, then the average LTR for both males and females is about 1.00 (Greil, 2006;Martin & Nguyen, 2004;Smith et al., 2007;Sorokowski & Pawlowski, 2008). Studies show that the most attractive female figures have an average leg length (Frederick et al., 2010;Kiire, 2016; see also an extensive cross cultural study Sorokowski et al., 2011) or legs longer than the average (Marković et al., 2016;Bertamini & Bennett, 2009;Brooks et al., 2015;Fan et al., 2005;Rilling et al., 2009;Sorokowski & Pawlowski, 2008;Swami et al., 2006). A similar preference for longer legs has also been identified for male figures (Authors, 2016;Versluys & Skylark, 2017). ...

... Many other examples of effects of not consciously perceived odors have been described on memory, emotion and as a driver of consumer behavior (Chen and Havilland-Jones, 2000;Havlicek et al., 2005;Gelstein et al., 2011;Sorokowska et al., 2012;Sorokowska, 2013;De Groot et al., 2014, 2017Iversen et al., 2015;De Luca and Botelho, 2019). ...