Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire–Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do (34 page)

BOOK: Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire–Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do
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Monroe, Marilyn

Moore, Edward George

Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary

Psychology, The
(Wright)

moralistic fallacy

Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty (Emperor of Morocco)

movies, sex and mating

Muslim suicide bombers

 

Native American Environmentalism (hoax)

naturalistic fallacy

natural selection, stability for

neurosurgeons (male)

Newman, Paul

Nicholson, Jack

nonfraternal polyandry

norms against crime and violence

nuptial gifts

Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the

Way They Do, The
(Harris)

 

obesity and maladaptive adaptations

occupational segregation by sex

older man and younger woman

one human culture

ornamentation, social and cultural

“ought,” no place in science

 

Palestinian suicide bombings

parental investment in children

parental socialization and children,

parenthood competition, cost of

productivity and

See also
family; marriage; sex and mating Pascal, Blaise

“Pascal's wager,”

paternal

resemblance

paternity certainty

pathogens, parasites resistance and attractive faces

penis (shape), female

promiscuity

perceptions (he said, she said)

Perry, Ted

personal networks

pheromones from

unrelated men and pubertal timing of girls

physical attractiveness and sex ratio at birth

Pierce, Franklin

Pinker, Steven

Pleistocene epoch (“the Ice Age”)

political and economic inequalities

affairs by politicians

(male)

brain types and

earnings, differences in

empathizers (female brain)

employer discrimination (“glass ceiling”)

“extreme male brain,” autism

feminists and

human capital

macro vs. micro

issues

neurosurgeons (male), kindergarten teachers (female)

“reasonable person,” US courts

reproductive success and

risk-aversiveness of women

sacrifices of success

sex discrimination

sexual harassment

short-term casual

sex

Standard Social Science Model and

systemizers (male brain)

temperaments

“token resistance,”

See also
evolutionary psychology; sex and mating polyandry

polygamy

polygyny

crime and violence

decision, monogamy or polygyny

defined

divorce and

fitness variance

nature of humans

pubertal timing of

girls

resource inequality and

sexual dimorphism and

polygyny (
continued
) simultaneous or serial

sororal polygyny

suicide bombing and

wealthy, powerful men and

Westerners and

women benefiting from

pornography and men

post-industrial society and

natural selection

Poumele, Fofoa

productivity and marriage

promiscuity (female) and male's

genitals

property crimes

prostitution and men

psychological adaptations (evolved psychological

mechanisms)

pubertal timing of girls

pupil dilation, attraction

 

quid pro quo sexual harassment

 

racism innate, race is not

rape

rational choice theory

“reasonable person,” US

courts

Redford, Robert

red hair, aversion to

relationships, women vs. men

religion and group conflict

adaptation, religion as

“animistic bias” (“the agency-detector mechanism”)

byproduct of adaptations

cognitive biases and

cross-cultural agreement

cultural universal, religion as

Error Management Theory

ethnic and nationalist conflict

ethnocentrism

intermarriage for reducing

lekking

marriage as cross-cultural

ornamentation

Muslim suicide bombers

origins of religious beliefs

ornamentation, social and

cultural

“Pascal's wager,”

polygyny, suicide bombing

racism innate, race is not

rational choice theory

religiosity

risk management and religiosity

sex (absence of) and suicide

bombing

social and cultural ornamentation

Standard Social Science Model and

suicide bombers and Islam

terrorist groups (traditional)

traveling

“War on Terror,”

xenophobic attitudes

See also
evolutionary psychology; sex and mating remarriage after divorce

remote control, channel surfing

reproductive success crime and violence

evolutionary psychology and

men and women, differences

political and economic inequalities

reproductive value of blonde bombshells

Reskin, Barbara F.

resource inequality, monogamy or polygyny

reverse naturalistic fallacy

Rice, William R.

Ridley, Matt

risk-aversiveness of women

risk management and religiosity

Robertson, Ian

Russo, Rene

 

sacrifices for success

Safeway

Salinger, J. D.

Samoa (hoax)

Savanna Principle

Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the

Biology of Behavior,
The
(Hamer)

scientists and marriage

secondary sexual characteristics of attractive faces

“semen displacement device,”

serial polygyny

17th Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society

sex (absence of) and suicide bombing

sex and mating

advertisements, ideal female beauty

age differences (large) between men and their mates

beauty, not in the eye of beholder or skin-deep

bilateral symmetry of faces

blonde bombshells (Barbie)

blue eyes

breasts (large)

children's preference for attractive faces

choice by female

cooperation, calculations behind, and cognitive biases

cross-cultural agreement of beauty

divorce rate and

dumb, blondes as

dying hair blond

Error Management Theory

facial attractiveness

facial averageness

fantasies

fertility of blonde bombshells

hair and ideal female beauty

health, assessing

ideal mate

literary themes, similar in all cultures

midriffs, teenage girls baring of

miscommunication (he said, she said)

modern men, fooling

movie portrayal of

older man and younger woman

pathogens, parasites resistance and attractive faces

pornography and men

prostitution and men

pupil dilation, attraction

religion and cognitive biases

reproductive value of blonde bombshells

Savanna Principle

secondary sexual characteristics of attractive faces

sexual interest, overestimating

sexual variety desired by men

skin color and fertility

Standard Social Science Model and

“superior customer service policy,”

teenage boys and older women

waist (small)

youth

See also
crime and violence; evolutionary psychology; marriage; political and economic inequalities; religion and group conflict

sex discrimination

sex ratio at birth

sexual dimorphism and polygyny

sexual harassment

sexual jealousy, male

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