Heterosexual and bisexual women, how attractive do you find strong looking hands on a man?

Heterosexual/bisexual women. What makes a man’s hands attractive? Reply with images if possible.

Using rap music as a tool to teach evolutionary psychology.

New paper with our graduate, Simran Dehal, on the role of altruistic costs in human mate choice. Out now in Evolutionary Psychological Science.

Why is "race" so important? The "Santa Barbara" school of evolutionary psychology proposes 2 complementary reasons: 1. Race is a cue of coalition membership, and coalitions trump race 2. Race is a cue of the local ecology, and local ecology trumps race👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

4/4 According this specific data (& if the first screenshot is re: year ending 2023) violence against women increased by 16%. Violence against men increased by 21%

Signaling altruism in dating profiles made targets more desirable as potential long-term mates. In online dating message scenarios, signaling altruism made targets more desirable for both as potential short and long term partners.

Pornography consumption associated with more unfaithful flirtation and less relationship commitment.

"Evolution has furnished us with an exquisite set of mental mechanisms that are designed to solve adaptive problems...fear mechanisms that make us flee danger...attraction and arousal mechanisms that make us choose mates..cooperation mechanisms, and so on" a.co/d/7p9WLyZ

Anxiety once served as a survival mechanism for our ancestors, but today it frequently causes harm in safe environments. Evolutionary psychiatry helps contextualize these reactions, offering a destigmatizing and informative perspective.

Men spend more time than women looking at faces when evaluating dating profiles. Women spend more time looking at income and occupation, especially if the man is less attractive. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

More women than men go to university in almost all countries. reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

It's weird how little people care about fertility rates. Our countries will wither away. We could at the very least study the question. Scientifically evaluating the impact of different initiatives. (And no, it has not been shown to all be zero.)

Super cool from PNASNews: It took nearly a century to discover a total of 430 figurative Nazca geoglyphs, but an AI system discovered 303 new figurative geoglyphs within only 6 months. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Does it bug you thinking about your partner moving on with someone else if you passed?

The research shows that women who report sexism by female supervisors face greater skepticism and are seen as complainers, with their claims viewed as less legitimate compared to when the perpetrator is male, due to biases in discrimination prototypes. dlvr.it/TDll22

"In this paper, we provide the most stringent tests to date of whether priors and preferences contribute to partisan bias." tinyurl.com/3ywvymf9

Final call: looking for #incels to fill out a short survey on porn and well-being. Thanks to those who have already taken part. Link: kingstonpcs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b7… Please share William Costello Alexander Involuntary Celibate (Incels.is) et al.

Question for men: How long does it take to know if you want to marry the girl you’re dating? Feel free to comment if outside of options.

A 2019 survey found only around a third of participants considered choking to be rough sexual behaviour. Most considered hair pulling, being pinned down, biting, being tied up and slapping as rough sexual behaviour. theconversation.com/sexual-strangu…