Daily Archives: April 22, 2021

Want to Hookup?: Sex Differences in Short‑term Mate Attraction Tactics (4-22-21)

00:00 Media rush to judgment on police shooting teen knife girl 04:00 Dennis Prager calls LeBron James a moron 06:40 Heather MacDonald talks to Dennis 12:00 USC’s Song Girls project a glamorous ideal; 10 women describe a different, toxic reality, … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Autobiography from an Abandoned Autobiography

Janet Malcolm writes: Another obstacle in the way of the journalist turned autobiographer is the pose of objectivity into which journalists habitually, almost mechanically, fall when they write. The “I” of journalism is a kind of ultra-reliable narrator and impossibly … Continue reading

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Dreams and Anna Karenina

Janet Malcolm writes: * Tolstoy was obviously well acquainted with the guard who stops us at the border of sleep and awakening and confiscates the brilliant, dangerous spoils of our nighttime creations. The capacity to recreate these fictions in the … Continue reading

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Want to Hookup?: Sex Differences in Short‑term Mate Attraction Tactics

From Evolutionary Science: * While a great deal of psychological research has been conducted on sex-specific mate choice preferences, relatively little attention has been directed toward how heterosexual men and women solicit short-term sexual partners, and which acts are perceived … Continue reading

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Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side

Here are some highlights from this 2021 book: * What exactly is spite? According to the American psychologist David Marcus, a spiteful act is one where you harm another person and harm yourself in the process. 2 This is a … Continue reading

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