The article reports on a study linking perceived unattractiveness during adolescence to higher mortality risk by young adulthood, with the effect evident for females but not for males. It discusses possible evolutionary and social mechanisms, including health signaling and social treatment differences, and notes limitations and the need for caution in interpretation.

The topic is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it highlights how social perceptions of appearance can intersect with health outcomes, stress, and gender differences, illustrating the complex ways social cognition influences real-life trajectories.

Article Title: Being seen as unattractive as a teen is linked to an earlier death for women, but not for men

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/being-seen-as-unattractive-as-a-teen-is-linked-to-an-earlier-death-for-women-but-not-for-men/

#appearance #adolescence #mortality #genderdifferences #haloeffect #socialstress #healthpsychology #evolutionarypsychology #lookism #socialdeterminants

After peeling away the superficial veneer of civilizational and cultural factors, we are left with the only driving force that runs the human world: survival.
The fear-driven urge to survive, by any means necessary, is the hidden motivational force behind all human activity.

#ZarionZoryStory 
#Existentialism #EvolutionaryPsychology #HumanNature #SurvivalInstinct

How Neanderthal Genes Influence Today’s Sensitivity

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The article examines how virtual girlfriend experiences, including online platforms and AI companions, simulate romantic relationships and connect to underlying motivations for connection, attraction, and control. It traces the evolution from in-person services to digital and AI formats, highlighting access, customization, and the balance between intimacy and effort. It also discusses potential impacts on mate selection, expectations, and the appeal of low-effort interactions.

The topic is of interest to psychology readers because it explores how digital technologies shape intimate motivation, relationship dynamics, and well being, shedding light on human needs for connection, novelty, and control in a rapidly changing landscape.

Article Title: Study explores how virtual “girlfriend experiences” tap evolved relationship motivations in the digital age

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/study-explores-how-virtual-girlfriend-experiences-tap-evolved-relationship-m Motivations-in-the-digital-age/

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#digitalintimacy #virtualgfe #relationshippsychology #evolutionarypsychology #technologyandromance #AIcompanions #onlinesexuality #matechoice #lonelinessresearch #digitalagerelationships

Therapist shares 3 life-changing quotes she uses ‘almost daily’ with her patients

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Left-Handed People Are More Competitive, Says Science

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The article examines why society pays disproportionate attention to incels, analyzing how cultural attraction theory and evolutionary psychology help explain the prominence of incel narratives in media and public discourse.

The piece highlights how certain psychological themes—sex, status, moral outrage, and group dynamics—make incel stories highly memorable and shareable, shedding light on why they attract widespread attention despite the relatively small size of the community.

Article Title: The psychology behind society’s fixation on incels

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www dot psypost.org/the-psychology-behind-societys-fixation-on-incels/

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#psychology #mediastudies #culturalattraction #incels #evolutionarypsychology

"Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability"

#epstein #highereducation #evolutionarypsychology

https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman

The article presents a cross-cultural analysis linking the size of a country’s cosmetics market to paternal investment in childcare and to economic inequality. Using a revised sexual selection framework, it suggests that when men contribute more to parenting and when inequality is higher, women may invest in appearance to attract high-investment partners. The study finds that per hour increases in paternal investment relative to maternal investment correspond to about a $2.17 rise in per-capita cosmetics spending.

This work is of interest to psychology because it connects parental effort, mate choice, and social context to consumer behavior, highlighting how cultural and economic factors shape psychological strategies around attractiveness and partnership.

Article Title: New research connects the size of the beauty market to male parenting effort

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#psychology #evolutionarypsychology #matechoice #paternalinvestment #cosmeticsindustry

I recently finished reading Richard Wollheim's "Painting As An Art".

I found much of it stimulating in the close attention paid to particular pictures and thought provoking with regard to his theory of "seeing in" as the way to understand our perception of paintings.

On the other hand, his use of psychoanalytic theory left me with questions.

Surprisingly, his use of this theory reminded of some recent reading of mine in evolutionary psychology. Both Wollheim and the evolutionary psychologists stress the significance of a common human nature and are inclined to downplay the importance of systems of symbols or culture in general.

I do think that a substantive concept of human nature makes sense, and I am open to the possibility of evolutionary psychology and psychoanalytical theory contributing to an understanding of of human nature.

Altogether less agreeable to me is the tendency of these theories to smuggle in a social ontology in which culture is merely the creation of atomized individuals. One can believe in the evolved nature of the mind and allow for the possibility of certain kinds of psychic forces at work in the individual without denying the importance, still less the existence, of social facts. Thinking about languages as at once learned and used by individuals but also existing as entities external to those individuals is helpful here.

Image: The Construction of the Tower of Babel -- Folio xvii, The Bedford Book of Hours -- 1423 - 30 - The British Library.

#Wollheim #RichardWollheim #PaintingAsAnArt #EvolutionaryPsychology #Psychoanalysis #SocialOntology #Art #Philosophy #IlluminatedManuscript #BookOfHours #BedfordBBookOfHours #15thCenturyArt #TowerOfBabel