"Relative to women, (a) men tend to be more strongly focused on romantic relationship formation, (b) men tend to benefit more from romantic relationship involvement, (c) men are less likely to initiate breakups, and (d) men tend to suffer more following relationship dissolution."
"The theory of evolution by natural selection provides a well-validated explanation—indeed the only explanation that we have, or need—for the properties of basic, cross-culturally general human motives and emotions" link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
"Many of the findings of evolutionary psychologists are unsurprising, at least in retrospect... Tell me something I did not know! But what would be truly surprising is if the theories and discoveries of evolutionary psychologists were strikingly at odds with intuition."
"People are, after all, experts in human behavior: they have evolved to be observant and accurate in this crucial domain."
Love the affable clarity of this cool new paper by Peter DeScioli...
"Indeed, humans have powerful motives to control the laws, which we have only just begun to uncover. They are probably as strong as our motives for status and alliances." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"Social animals fight not only for food, shelter, and mates but also to control an idea, namely the group's collective idea of ranks in the hierarchy. As a result, many conflicts have no visible resource at stake."
"A law is like a threat from unknown threateners. If a dog could bark a law to their group, each dog would have to heed attacks from every other dog including their own kin."
(1/2) "The frequent 'virtue signaling' of social psychologists in presumptively scientific publications is a key manifestation of our evolved coalitional psychology. We broadcast our commitments to social justice, to opposing discrimination & prejudice, & to eliminating sexism...
(2/2) ...Part of this virtue signaling entails rejecting a caricature of evolutionary psychology that no scientist actually holds."