I’ve never been surprised by studies showing women receive higher attractiveness ratings than men.

Women spend more time on their looks.
What other result would you expect?

Romantic partners are overrated (literally).

One of my fav posters from this year's EHBEA.

Men compensate for mate-value imbalances with oral sex. (The more a woman dates down, the more her partner goes down.)

Contextualizing women’s body size preferences.

New article up - big review on the attractiveness of the Dark Triad.

A couple of tables summarizing research using DT vignettes and facial morphs.

Is the DT attractive - or do high DT individuals simply engage in more short-term mating effort?

datepsychology.com/is-the-dark-tr…

Unattractive men tend to adopt hostile sexist beliefs, but not benevolently sexist beliefs, which in turn makes them even more unattractive to women.

Good explanation of this and some research:

Ambivalent, curvilinear sexism.

New paper! Ovulatory decreases in food intake and increases in sexual desire, and initiation of dyadic sexual behaviour in a N=390 online menstrual diary study.

“The current study's findings show a significant relationship between variables such as narcissism was positively correlated with loneliness and selfie posting behaviour, whereas it was negatively correlated with social support. Regression analysis revealed narcissism…

Anecdotally, I've heard this exact story (LTR w/ the first person he met on the apps) a few times.

I wonder if some of the 'problems' with the apps come from guys who are adept at forming LTRs getting off them quite quickly.

(Creating a pool of the less-adept.)

Grateful for the funding and excited to run the experiment. Thank you EHBEA for the opportunity, see you in Montpellier! 🥳

Male foraging among Hadza follows does not appear to support provisioning: paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/…