Non-Fiction Notes
Non-Fiction Notes
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Attracting a Partner “KNOWING WHAT WE desire in a mate provides no guarantee that we will succeed in getting what we want. Success hinges on providing signals that we will deliver what the partner we desire is seeking. Because ancestral women valued high status in men, for example, men have evolved motivation for acquiring and…
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Casual Sex Some individuals are more open to affairs or short-term liaisons than others: “Although women and men alike have the whole repertoire of mating strategies—long-term mating, short-term mating, mate poaching, infidelity, and so on—there do exist somewhat stable individual differences, sometimes called sociosexual orientation. Some people are strongly inclined to long-term, high-investment mating. They…
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What Men Want The Puzzle of Why Men Commit: “WHY MEN WOULD ever commit to just one woman poses a puzzle. Since all an ancestral man needed to do to reproduce was to impregnate a woman, casual sex without commitment would have achieved this goal. For evolution to produce men who desire commitment or marriage…
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What Women Want – Desired Traits Size and Strength “When the great basketball player Magic Johnson revealed that he had slept with thousands of women, he inadvertently revealed women’s preference for mates who display physical and athletic prowess. The numbers may be shocking, but the preference is not. Physical characteristics, such as athleticism, size, and…
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What Women Want – Desired Traits “Among humans, the evolution of women’s preference for a permanent mate with resources would have required [some] preconditions. … men would have had to differ from each other in their holdings and their willingness to invest those holdings in a woman and her children – if all men possessed…
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What Women Want “It is not androcentric to propose that women’s preferences in a partner are more complex and enigmatic than the mate preferences of either sex of any other species.” Taken broadly, human females appear to exhibit the most complex mate preferences observed across species. “The great initial parental investment of women makes them…
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I am currently reading The Evolution of Desire by David Buss. I don’t really know why I hadn’t read this book earlier. Perhaps the omnipresence of screen media explains it. “Pain, betrayal, and loss contrast sharply with the usual romantic notions of love.” Good Reasons for Bad Feelings by Randolph Nesse comes to mind here.…
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Do women like or even love men who read? There’s a real science of human mating out there. I’ve never read a David Buss book thoroughly from cover to cover, but to form a deep and well-founded opinion on the topic, one should probably read The Evolution of Desire or another one of his works.…
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My first book review will be on Forecasting: An Essential Introduction by Jennifer Castle, Michael Clements, and David Hendry (2019)
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I’ll review articles and books here about once a week.
Non-Fiction Notes 