The Scientific Fundamentalist - Psychology Today Blogs:
The guest blogger and PT intern Jen Kim complains about the difficulties of dating in New York. No wonder she finds it difficult. Since 1966, it’s been mathematically proven that dating in New York is difficult.... In their (Read More)
The Scientific Fundamentalist - Psychology Today Blogs:
In my last post, I review and highly recommend my fellow PT blogger Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational. The book is full of fascinating examples of how actual human behavior – the choices and decisions people make ever (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
The nature of truthiness is that, as Stephen Colbert says, you don't need to know any facts-- gut feelings are enough. If it feels true it must be true. In her award-nominated book, Jane Mayer (2008) describes how newly-minte (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
Women today behave very much more like men than their grandmothers. After all, they attend college to compete in careers (rather than to find a husband). They are interested in sex. They drink alcohol and do drugs. They are a (Read More)
The Scientific Fundamentalist - Psychology Today Blogs:
In my previous post, I discuss Finkel and Eastwick's forthcoming article in Psychological Science, which demonstrates that the typical and universal sex difference in mate selectivity, where men are much less selective than w (Read More)
The Scientific Fundamentalist - Psychology Today Blogs:
One of the most fundamental principles of evolutionary psychology is that women are much more selective than men in their mate choice. Because women pay far greater reproductive costs by making the wrong choice, women have b (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
In my last post, I pointed out that testosterone fuels the reckless sexual and aggressive behavior of young men and other male vertebrates. Recent research is closing in on sex hormones (androgens as well as estrogens) playin (Read More)
The Scientific Fundamentalist - Psychology Today Blogs:
I like the Back to the Future trilogy for many reasons. Along with Jaws II and Die Hard II, Back to the Future II and III are among the very few sequels that are as good as or even better than the original. And unlike Juras (Read More)
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RT @englishcomp: fascinating new report out about evolutionary psychology as it relates to learning and teaching. http://tr.im/pZ4v. (Read More)
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@brainpicker: The Adaptive Function of Literature & Other Arts – creativity beyond evolutionary psychology http://bit.ly/11MUyv. (Read More)
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RT @dahifi: The Red Queen is a mind-changing book on the evolutionary psychology of sexual selection. http://bit.ly/18nILt A good read. (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
Apart from "gay genes" in humans, the main evidence that homosexuality is naturally selected is the fact that gay animals are so common. Pairs of male penguins court each other, build a nest, and huddle over a round stone in (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
Scientific discovery has a way of shattering our preconceptions whether we are scientists or not. That is certainly true of homosexuality. Biologists, who long ago concluded that homosexuality could not have been favored by n (Read More)