Evolutionary Entertainment

Given women’s flexible sexual responsiveness to both sexes, a growing notion among relationship researchers is that women’s sexuality is fluid. But why would sexual selection have fashioned motivational mechanisms to engage in sexual behaviors with members of the same sex? Read More

"In Rwanda they referred to Tutsis as cockroaches. They were not human beings…[They said,] 'Don’t worry, you’re not killing humans like you. You are killing some vermin that belongs under your shoe. You’re killing cockroaches.'" Read More

Many students enter the introductory psychology course assuming that they’re destined to excel in it because they’re knowledgeable about their own and others’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Little do they know that much of what they “know” about psychology is not worth knowing. Read More

Telltale signs of mental illness are evident among prominent Republican politicians including denial, delusion, hallucination, disordered thinking, anger, anti-social behavior, sexual preoccupation, grandiosity, general oddness, and paranoia. Read More

While evolutionary psychology has blossomed because of its unique ability to explore human nature, Chris Rock’s stand-up routines have vaulted him into the pantheon of comedic talents because they reflect human nature. Rock's riffs are funny because they're true (because they evoke our evolved psychology). Read More

Do you consider yourself to be a feminist? If you're like the overwhelming majority of American men and women, you do not. And gender feminists are partly to blame. Read More

Polls with genitalia-laden names seem fixated on gonads. Read More