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• Adaptations for the visual assessment of formidability: Part I

  
  Ionian Enchantment — Authority: 122
  In the last couple of years there has been an explosion in research on faces and what can be inferred from them. It turns out, for example, that you can predict electoral outcomes from rapid and unreflective facial judgments, that women can (partially) determine a mans level of interest in infants from his face ...
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• Lazy Gene theory: A whole new take on self-confidence, love, addiction and co-dependence

  
  Ambigamy — Authority: 110
  Evolutionary psychology generally focuses on the ways in which lifes age old pursuit of biological reproductive success shapes our minds activities. Evolution and behavior are related in another way as well.  Evolutionary epistemologists like me are interested in how the minds activities are evolution by other means. ...
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• Why Do People Vote? I

  
  The Scientific Fundamentalist — Authority: 466
  Why millions of people turn out to vote in every national election in the United States and other large democracies is one of the persistent mysteries in the rational choice theory of politics.  Why do people vote? If you think about it, voting in a large national election – such as the US Presidential election ...
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• What Does it Mean to Say "Well Adapt" to Big Cities and to Little Nature?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  A reader posted the following response to an earlier discussion of mine [click here ]. He said, "We cant turn back time, we need to adapt." But adaptation is many things. Sometimes when we adapt its good for us - biologically and psychologically. And sometimes its bad for us. Id like to discuss different types ...
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• The Ft. Hood Killer - Guilty But Not Evil

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Major Nidal Malik Hasan was not a bad person.  He was even possibly a good person.  But he was a very sick person who did a terrible thing. If you are someone who disagrees with that, then I would suggest you stop reading now. If however you do agree with me, in addition to being as upset as I was by the Ft. ...
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• Reconciling Difference

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Her joys, her woes, Her highs, her lows, Are second nature to me now; Like breathing out and breathing in. . . .Ive grown accustomed to the trace, Of something in the air; Accustomed to her face. -My Fair Lady Today, Frederick Loewes My Fair Lady raises more than a few politically correct eyebrows, yet the ...
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• Science of Speed Dating - Part IV

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Ask men and women what they look for in a partner, and they will tell you that they are basically looking for someone who matches well with them in terms of wealth and status, family commitment, attractiveness, health and of course general physical appearance. Take a closer look at who these same men and women end up ...
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• Blending Out

  
  Tinted Lenses — Authority: 98
  Faithful readers will note that I have had occasional skirmishes with some of our resident evolutionary psychologists. Although there is room for disagreement about theoretical specifics, modern psychology can ignore evolutionary theory only at its own peril: human behaviour is clearly a partial product of our ...
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• Sexual Attraction, Health and Evolution: Its a Rocky Road

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Which physical characteristics make for attraction? If you perform a quick search for psychology articles (and blogs) on this topic, you will find innumerable accounts of studies telling you how, for example, people with high facial symmetry and particularly average faces are generally considered more beautiful, that ...
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• Wired - Religion: Biological Accident, Adaptation — or Both

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 440
  My guess is that religious thought is a by-product of our need to understand the world, which begins with our need to understand each other (as this article suggests). Historically, what we cannot explain concretely we tend to create supernatural explanations for - superstitions, rituals, gods. Religion: Biological ...
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• Wrestling with Wild Things, Part 2

  
  Overthinking It — Authority: 426
  In “ Wrestling with Wild Things, Part 1 “, I promised to go through the 2009 movies that made me cry and break down why I broke down. But I first spent some quality time with the most recent of the bunch, Where the Wild Things Are , parsing what it’s about and how it works. I’m glad we’ve got that out of ...
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• Beyond Happiness: Other-Praising Emotions

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Happiness is the most widely studied positive emotion in Psychology (and not quite coincidentally the topic of one of the most read blog post s on psychologytoday.com for October). The benefits of experiencing happiness go far beyond merely "feeling good", and include a range of physiological and behavioral ...
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• Who’s Your Daddy? Global Nonpaternity Rates.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
    The threat of being cuckolded is one of the most evolutionarily important threats faced by men especially in light of the fact that humans are a bi-parental species (i.e., children require great parental care from both parents).  Numerous sex differences in sexual behavior have been linked to paternity ...
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• The Science of Speed Dating - Part III

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Mimicry is pervasive in everyday interactions. We routinely find ourselves converging in speech and mannerisms to our friends and associates, or even the characters of our favorite TV shows. And it is also not unusual that, while engaged in conversation, we subconsciously adjust our posture to be similar to the ...
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• Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do

  
  The Scientific Fundamentalist — Authority: 466
  One of my all-time favorites among all the scientific papers that I have ever read in my life is “Why your friends have more friends than you do,” published in the American Journal of Sociology in 1991 by my old sociology friend Scott L. Feld, who is now Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. The title ...
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• What do halloween, the NY marathon and chocolate have in common?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  The connnection between halloween and chocolate is pretty obvious, but where does a marathon fit in? To understand this connection you may have to have been where I was today, at the race in Central Park, watching runners lurch toward the finish line. "Its the best drug Ive ever had," one runner said to me after the ...
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• The Unromantic Truth About Why We Kiss — To Spread Germs

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 573
  Fiona Macrae writes in the Daily Mail : It is an international symbol of love and romance. But the kiss may have evolved for reasons that are far more practical — and less alluring. British scientists believe it developed to spread germs. They say that the uniquely human habit allows a bug that is dangerous in ...
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• Bad for Teeth, Good for Society

  
  Psychology Today — Authority: 140
  Community building on All Hallows Eve. 
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• Chimps-R-Not-Us

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Many people believe that they have seen evidence that chimpanzees can readily retrieve a banana hanging from a high point when provided with a few boxes which can be stacked to enable the chimp to climb up and reach the reward. Indeed, they may even be able to recall a famous photograph taken by Wolfgang Köhler in ...
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• Can We Adapt to Big Cities and to Little Nature?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Some people say that we dont have to worry that were destroying the natural world, and that we increasingly live in increasingly large, congested, and polluted cities. At the core of their argument usually lies three claims, which sound something like this: (i) "Well adapt." (ii) "Adaption is how we evolved." And ...
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