Question for women-what behaviors have made you not want to go on a second date with a man? Also, what behaviors have made you decide to go on a second date?

So anyway, team Jacob or team Edward?

“People who score higher in extraversion, several facets of psychopathy, grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, and antagonistic Machiavellianism, by contrast, are more likely to report engagement in online political incivility.

In general, the personality traits that predict…

Breakthrough AI model distinguishes male and female brains with over 90% accuracy via @psypost psypost.org/breakthrough-a…

No gym for his face

Men are six times more likely to be open to a polygynous relationship than women, according to our recent research stevestewartwilliams.com/p/polygamous-d… HT Andrew G. Thomas

Imagine you are a member of a pre-historic hunter gatherer group. Which would you rather be?

One of the big things the red pill gets wrong is framing long-term mating strategies (and men who pursue those) as “beta” and short-term strategies (and men who pursue those) as “alpha.”

It’s pretty rare that evolutionary psychologists use the terms “alpha” and “beta” this way,…

A few people asked how men who look like this can have high reproductive success. In the comments people also said low risk aversion, high social dominance, etc. - lots of individual traits and that is all true as well.

A big part of the picture however is that they are simply…

'individuals whose negative affect leans more toward psychopathology (i.e., depression and anxiety) than other types of neuroticism (like anger, jealousy, hostility) have lowered amounts of relationship quality.'

“A man’s desirability as a long term mate was enhanced if he wished to become a father, and/or if he had a previous relationship experience, indicating he had been formerly chosen or preferred”.

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Meta-analysis: Neuroticism dims the quality of relationships, especially for the neurotics themselves. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-80… This meta-analysis was able to thoroughly assess the relationship between neuroticism and relationship quality and examine potential moderators. The…

Every time you see someone cite a paper on how antisocial behavioral traits are associated with higher reproductive success, please do keep in mind this is largely unrelated to physical attractiveness:

Whose fault is it?

New video up - reviewing Chapter 5 in the Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships.

This chapter is on Hormones and Relationship Formation:

youtu.be/K_gQN8O-HZQ

What are your thoughts on this ladies? It's your birthday and your man does absolutely nothing, how do you feel?

I don’t post about politics much so I am curious - do you think I am more left leaning or right leaning?

I saw a description of someone’s graduate thesis posted on X yesterday that was something like “cross-Atlantic imaginary energy disruptions in the humanities.”

When people read these wacky and frankly make-believe things that academia occasionally produces, I think a lot of…