Smoke Detectors With Benefits
I hate my smoke detector. Right now it’s laying disassembled on the table in my living room because it apparently thought my chicken was a fire hazard. That I’m talking about my smoke detector as...
View ArticleWhy Are Plumbers So Sexist?
By now, most people have surely heard of the dreaded wage gap between men and women. If I am to believe what I have heard around the internet, women in the US earn about 77 cents for every dollar a man...
View ArticleThe Science Of White Knighting
As a male, it’s my birthright to be a chauvinistic sexist, sort of like original sin. I still remember the day, though I was still very young, that some representatives from the Patriarchy approached...
View ArticleThe Myths That Never Were
I recently came across a post over at Psychology Today entitled, “Six Myths About Female Sexuality and Why They’re Myths” by one Susan Whitbourne. I feel the need to discuss it here for two reasons:...
View ArticleSocial Banking
“Bankers have a limited amount of money, and must choose who to invest it in. Each choice is a gamble: taken together, they must ultimately yield a net profit, or the banker will go out of business....
View ArticleJust A Little Off The Top
In my last post I suggested that humans likely possess a series of modules designed to assess victim characteristics when it comes to assessing their associated victimhood claims. Simply put, there are...
View ArticleThe Fight Over Mankind’s Essence
All traits of biological organisms require some combination and interaction of genetic and non-genetic factors to develop. As Tooby and Cosmides put it in their primer: Evolutionary psychology is not...
View Article“Nice Guys”, The Friend Zone, And Social Semantics
A little over a year ago, a video entitled, “Why men and women can’t be friends” was uploaded to YouTube. In the video, a man approaches various men and women and presents them with the question, “can...
View ArticleTropes Against Video Games
Back in mid-May of last year, Anita Sarkeesian launched a Kickstarter project to help fund her video series on portrayals of women in video games called “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games”. Her initial...
View ArticleWhy Would You Ever Save A Stranger Over A Pet?
The relationship between myself and my cat has been described by many as a rather close one. After I leave my house for almost any amount of a time, I’m greeted by what appears to be a rather excited...
View ArticleSound The Alarm: Sexist Citations
First things first: I would like to wish Popsych.org a happy two-year anniversary. Here’s looking at many more. That’s enough celebration for now; back to the regularly scheduled events. When it comes...
View ArticleBegging Questions About Sexualization
There’s an old joke that goes something like this: If a man wants to make a woman happy, it’s really quite simple. All he has to do is be a chef, a carpenter, brave, a friend, a good listener,...
View ArticleWhat Does Online Dating Tell Us About Racial Views?
Preferences can be funny things, or at least our judgments of them. If I were to state that, “I have no interest in hiring a black person to do this job”, I would receive more than a little...
View ArticleGender Gaps Vs. Gender Facts
In a now-classic 1994 paper, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides discussed an idea they labeled “instinct blindness”. One of the basic ideas of this paper is that our minds have evolved to become really good...
View ArticleThe Best Mate Money Can Buy
There’s a proud tradition in psychological research that involves asking people about how much they value this thing or that one, be it in a supermarket or, for our present purposes, in a sexual...
View ArticleIn The World Of The Blind, The Woman With A Low WHR Is Queen
If you happen to have memories of watching TV in the 90s, chances are you might remember the old advertisements they used to run for the Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. The general premise of the ads...
View ArticleSome Free Consulting Advice For Improving Online Dating
I find many aspects of life today to be pretty neat, owing largely to the wide array of fun and functional gadgets we have at our disposal. While easy to lose sight of and take for granted, the radical...
View Article“There Are No Girls On The Internet”
“I’ve discovered through the internet you can do anything you want so long as no one sees your face; it’s like the wild west over here” -Carl Today is another leisurely day for me, so I’ll be writing...
View ArticleUnderstanding Male Investment In Children
As a rather social species, humans seem to have a fairly advanced theory of mind. By that, I mean we attribute things like beliefs, intentions, desires, and so on to other people in efforts to...
View ArticleHe’s Got Your Eyes…Right?
Last post, I was discussing paternal investment in children. The point of that post was to draw attention to the fact there are often rather good biological reasons for why we might expect men and...
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