Social Psychology

Guys who drive expensive cars have small dicks

I had always noticed this phenomeno… How its people who can barely afford middle-class, who inssisted on spending like they’re super-high class. Most people throwing money around I had noticed were pretty insecure people trying to look rich. I did doubt my observation (as I always think you should when you don’t have evidence past [...]

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Male and female brains are different

Men and Women Really Do Think Differently | LiveScience
Psychology professor Richard Haier of the University of California, Irvine led the research along with colleagues from the University of New Mexico. Their findings show that in general, men have nearly 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence compared with women, whereas women [...]

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Women are picky plus women can tell how sexy a man is by the way he dances

Apparently women are pickier when it comes to choosing men… than men when choosing women, lol. Well we always knew this, but this is just another nail in the coffin for the deniers who’d rather not admit any difference:
Symmetrical People Make Better Dancers | LiveScience
Women are pickier
Interestingly, the male preference for symmetric females was not [...]

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Women fear rejection and disapproval more than men do

I’ve no doubtely noticed this quite a few times – women do seem to fear rejection more. I especially have noticed how they rationalize away males-being-rejected… I always wondered why those feminists will try to trivialize male-rejection… and then go into a diatribe on “passive rejection”, saying stuff like “women often are rejected by seeing [...]

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Are Humans Meant to be Monogamous?

A nice overview on humans and their monogamy, also introducing this interesting thing called social monogamy.
LiveScience.com: Life’s Little Mysteries – Are Humans Meant to be Monogamous?
Some scientists view both social and sexual monogamy in humans as a societal structure rather than a natural state.
“I don’t think we are a monogamous animal,” said Pepper Schwartz, a [...]

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Smelly women are sexy

No, not really, but apparently how women smell changes depending on the part of the month they’re in, and men detect this change subconciously (obviously resulting in appropriate horniness).
When a Woman Smells Best | LiveScience
The scent of a woman is more attractive at certain times of the month, suggests a new study that had men [...]

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The fallacies that create left-wingers and right-wingers

An amazing find. One of my favorite authors ever, Satoshi Kanazawa has this piece explaining the morallistic and naturalistic fallacies. They explain the irrational behaviour of both extreme leftists (marxists, feminists, political correctness crowd) and extreme rightists (super conservative religious nuts, people who like to go back to the 18th century rules)…
In short, here’s [...]

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Status seeking individuals – sorry losers

Brains Hard-Wired to Hate Losing | LiveScience
Competitive types who get a buzz from climbing the social ladder also feel more pain when they plummet to a lesser rung. That’s according to new research suggesting our brains are hard-wired for hierarchy.
Brains Hard-Wired to Hate Losing | LiveScience
Turns out, the “high” that a person feels at [...]

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Why Dating Is Difficult in New York (or London)

A piece on why dating is harder in new-york than in a smaller town. Now… there’s a ton of leaps in logic in this piece, and I’m not sure I agree with it, I’m just putting it out there.
Why Dating Is Difficult in New York (or London) | Psychology Today
While it is often difficult to [...]

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The paradox of the bad boy

Why Are We Surprised? | Psychology Today
And Elin Nordegren and other “wronged wives” cannot really complain about their husbands’ affairs. As I explain in an earlier post, it’s not like women want their husbands to cheat on them, but then it’s not like they don’t want them to cheat on them either. They [...]

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