The Hipsters Guide to Scientifically Heaping Righteous Scorn upon Sports Fans
Stock up on light beer and dip, let the drawstring on your sweat pants fly, and let that gut pour into your favorite recliner! Joke with your bros about your wife not getting you and your need to...
View ArticleWhy Your Girlfriend Wants to Cheat On You
(and Why She’ll Never Admit It) *Note: This post is a carryover from an old blog. It’s the post that played a large part in the impetus for this site, but looking back now, parts of the theory and...
View ArticleBig Butts and Breasts: What Sir-Mix-A-Lot Got Wrong About Beauty and Attraction
Ladies, gentlemen, and miscreants… You know that conversation that starts off something like, “what physical feature of mine do you most like”? I’ve been on the receiving end of that question from...
View ArticleSexual Selection Reversal: The Rise of Male Choosiness
A standard principle in evolutionary biology is that the sex that invests the most in reproduction is the most choosy when it comes to picking suitable mates. In most mammals, this means females...
View ArticleMale Physical Attractiveness Part I or: You Shallow, Shallow Ladies
Note: this contains a review, click here if you’re looking for the official site of The Hollywood Physique. Applied Evolutionary Psychology: Male Attractiveness Over the course of running a few blogs,...
View ArticleDissecting Hidden Objections to Human Nature: Assortative Mating
Beautiful people don’t mind being judged beautiful any more than smart people mind being judged smart. Yes, some will object to that statement — most likely those will be ugly people and dumb people....
View ArticleMale Physical Attractiveness Part II: Chicks Dig Scars
(Continued from: Male Physical Attractiveness Part I or: You Shallow, Shallow Ladies) The attractiveness of facial symmetry seems to have woven itself thoroughly into the nerdier shallower echelons of...
View ArticlePredictors of Being Cheated On: For Men
I always perk up at data drawing correlations to the Big Five personality traits. If you’re familiar with the Myers-Briggs style tests, you’ll have some idea of what this test evaluates. Unlike the...
View ArticleThe Pick-Up Artists' Alpha-Male Narrative Myth
Yup, another “Geico commercials aren’t historically accurate representations of human evolution” post. First, a disclaimer: I have no moral qualms with with sex. My current interpretation is that, in...
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