Way back in 1992, David Buss and his colleagues at the University of Michigan published results of a three studies showing that men and women responded differently to sexual and emotional infidelity. They argued that the different reactions stemmed from sex differences in challenges to successful reproduction. Men, they said, Read more…
It has been a longstanding truism in evolutionary psychology that because of the different investments men and women have in reproduction that the best strategy for men is to be relatively promiscuous and the best strategy for women is to be choosy. That still may be the case, but Eli Read more…
Continuing our Father’s Day discussion of the importance of involved dads, I read with interest that in a study of families in Senegal, mothers’ ratings of how invested fathers were in their children were highly correlated with observer ratings of how much a child resembled his or her father. These data are consistent Read more…
A recent study by Marianne Taylor of Pacific Lutheran University and her colleagues has been getting a lot of press [1]. In a nutshell, Taylor and colleagues found that children until the age of 10 or so view the behavioral differences between boys and girls, such as their different preferences Read more…
One of our favorite classic movies chez Freberg is Bell, Book, and Candle, a 1958 film starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, who allegedly was the actress after whom the Disney animators fashioned Tinkerbell. In the movie, Novak plays a witch who uses her magic to make Stewart fall in Read more…