A recent article concluded that watching a seven-minute clip from a professor’s lecture on the evolutionary psychology of human mating made participants blame a crime victim. This conclusion is not su...

Sexual intent perceptions refer to instances in which individuals infer sexual interest from other people’s behavior. While past research has explored this in d...

Fausto-Sterling’s treatment of sex differences in throwing reveals how modern Blank Slate thinking survives by acknowledging biology in principle while dismissing it in practice.

How evolutionary theory can help explain sex differences in singlehood experiences

How evolutionary theory can help explain sex differences in singlehood experiences

In A Billion Years of Sex Differences, evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams tackles some of science’s most controversial questions: How do men and women differ? Where do the differences co...

Scientific Reports - The power of many small sex differences in cognition, personality, and interests

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Concerns about declining research quality have increasingly been framed as "junkification", whereby academic output expands in volume while declini...

Cross-sex friendships are often characterized by psychological and behavioral patterns consistent with underlying mating motivations, and many romanti…

Don Symons's book "On the Evolution of Human Sexuality" has had a lasting impact on evolutionary psychology.

A recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior suggests that artificial intelligence could help men facing chronic singlehood. Researchers found that practicing romantic skills with a guided conversational program reduced feelings of loneliness and psychological distress.

Despite their small numbers, incels loom incredibly large in public consciousness. A new study explains why: their stories hit our deepest evolutionary panic buttons regarding sex, status, and societal threat.

Critics have long dismissed evolutionary psychology as “just-so stories.” A new conceptual review challenges this view, arguing the field generates rigorous, falsifiable predictions—some of which have...

– by Nicolas Baumard & Jean-Baptiste André The evolutionary social sciences are grounded in the idea that evolutionary theory provides a unified framework to explain human behavior, including social n...

We’ve long known that scarcity plays an important role in sexual attraction. For example, in a classic study, research assistants approached people at a bar at different points during the night and asked them to rate the attractiveness of other patrons.What they found was that, for men and women alike, perceived attractiveness increased as the night went on and the bar got ready to close. This finding has been replicated a few times and has been dubbed “the closing-time effect.” Basically, it means that as our opportunities for finding a hookup decrease, our standards change.

Four preregistered studies find that perpetrators who commit moral transgressions are judged less harshly when their transgressions impact individuals…

– by James R. Roney A lot of research has investigated shifts in women’s psychology and behavior across different phases of the menstrual cycle. One pattern that has emerged in multiple studies is an…

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