Bit of a milestone - my Darwin Does Dating blog has over 600,000 reads on Psychology Today! For those not in the loop: it's my monthly blog about evolutionary perspectives on mating behaviour and sex differences. Here's 5 recent posts that you should check out!

In my view, one of the most important theories of sex and relationships is the Sexual Strategies Theory. It has a simple premise: Humans have two different “styles” of mating and have evolved a mating psychology that enables them." psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/darwin…

This month's blog post just dropped. I discuss the findings from our latest study on self-enhancing behaviours among singles. Remarkable similarities across 14 countries! @mapostolou4 Psychology Today @SwanseaPsych psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/darwin…

Not everyone is equally desirable as a prospective romantic partner. Luckily, there are ways to maximize one’s attractiveness. Here are some of the most common across different countries, explains Darwin Does Dating psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwin…

“16 percent of professors said they have either been disciplined or threatened with discipline for their speech, teaching, or academic research… And a whopping 29 percent said they’ve been pressured by administrators to avoid controversial research. thefp.com/p/american-col…

"There is a Chinese term that roughly means ‘Revenge bedtime procrastination’ — when 'people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours.'” — Lu-Hai Liang

Groundbreaking study reveals the dating psychology of incels swansea.ac.uk/press-office/n… @SwanseaPsych Swansea University

"While it can be tempting to dismiss someone's feelings of loneliness, they should not be taken lightly..." "Loneliness weaves a complex web that influences physiological processes, epigenetic changes, health-related behaviours, and even genetic factors." My newest blog post

Not Just a Feeling: The Physical Consequences of Loneliness psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/darwin… This month's Darwin Does Dating post is now live!

Here are at least 6 ways loneliness can get “under our skin” and affect our mind and body negatively, by Darwin Does Dating psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwin…

As a professor who favors free speech on campus, I can sympathize with the "nuanced" answers given by U. presidents yesterday, about whether calls to attack or wipe out Israel violate campus speech policies. What offends me is that since 2015, universities have been so quick to

Let's get back to basics. How consistent are long-term mate preferences? Is it just "different strokes for different folks?" I take a look at the variation in a classic study in my latest Darwin Does Dating blog post. Just in time for 🎄 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwin…

The Physical Consequences of Loneliness | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwin… via Psychology Today Darwin Does Dating #Loneliness

Grade inflation makes it harder for the best students to distinguish themselves. And it disincentives deep learning. So it bums me out that departments that have meaningful grades (say, Econ) lose majors to departments where 70% of students get As (I won't name names), the

Melissa S. Kearney When I taught in a Chinese university, grade inflation was solved by prohibiting professors in any department from giving more than 20% A grades. Maybe we should do the same.

Again, if you had to figure out someone's intelligence in very little time (say seconds), using physical attractiveness would improve your estimate over a random guess. Thus, filtering hard on physical attractiveness doesn't necessarily mean that the one cares only about

New blog post just dropped. Most (99%) of my followers think attachment is more important than pseudoscience like♉Zodiac signs... yet one in five know more about their Zodiac sign than their attachment style! Tragic. Let's change that. In this new post, I talk about the

Important to know right now, since in the UK it looks like we might be thinking of introducing mindfulness in schools - it doesn't help, folks. Let's not fall for the politician's fallacy: "Something must be done; this is something; therefore this must be done."

What we look for in a partner is, to some degree, unique to ourselves. Yet, on the whole, most of us actually seek pretty similar things in an "ideal" mate. Why? It likely comes down to this, writes Darwin Does Dating psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwin…

Is the modern obsession with "body count" a shallow cultural artefact that will fizzle out? Or does it serve some kind of function—a way of helping us reduce risk when making important relationship choices? An evolutionary perspective on the importance of sexual history in my