Macken
@MackenMurphy
Oxford grad studying mating. "Macken Murphy is able to condense vast chunks of information into engaging and digestible episodes." - @NYTimes
People who cheat are generally more physically attracted to their affair partners—but see their primary partners as better parents—suggesting infidelity serves a dual-mating strategy. No evidence for the mate-switching hypothesis. New from the Evolution Lab. (1/13)
Interesting that among the bottom 1% of male earners who are currently married, 15% are partnered with women with graduate degrees. Most likely these men are stay at home husbands or graduate students.
One of the most straightforward, no-brainer pieces of dating advice you can give to a young woman is “focus on your education.” Ironic, given the hallucinations you read on here.
This has 5 million views on TikTok so far. (About another million if you count other platforms.) I’m fairly sure this is the most-viewed evo psych content ever. For better or worse.
In the abstract, it's bizarre that men are so concerned with women's butts. What a strange thing to focus on! However, it makes adaptive sense for three reasons: 1. Butts signal athleticism. 2. Butts advertise stored calories. 3. Butts store LCPUFA for fetal brain development.
3. Then, @lymanstoneky also shows high-status men are most likely to have Stay-at-Home-Wives. This suggests that both they & their wives are more likely to choose this option when they have 💵 to do so. (Ofc. such men tend to have jobs that require long hrs, a constraint.)
1. High-status men tend to marry well-educ women who are close in age to them. So much for Alt Right conceit 🤵🏽♂️marry "down" High-status men also the men most likely to have Stay-at-Home Wives. So much for Prog conceit elite👫🏽s embrace 50-50👫🏽 Lyman's latest @FamStudies:
It's often taken as a no-brainer by the general public that fighting and winning as a male animal is sexy for female animals. But it's not a no-brainer. E.g., males in this species actually dial down the violence when females are watching!
I'm reminded of a great joke: An economist is at a man's funeral, and says, "Well, his revealed preference was to die." 😂 Not all revealed preference studies have this shortcoming, though. For instance, the cited Eastwick preference-matching study doesn't have this problem, as…
Most men would rather date an attractive woman than an unattractive woman, even if they perceive the attractive woman as more promiscuous. Beauty may function like a shield that allows attractive women to exercise their preferred sexual strategy without penalty.
