At what ages are men and women most likely to have affairs?
men are much more likely to have affairs when they're young. For men the likelihood increases with age. Also interesting is the proportion of men and women who have affairs, by age: Men are more likely to cheat with younger women: Women are more likely to have affairs with men who are more educated than their spouse: Source: "THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND INFIDELITY" by Donald Cox, Department of Economics, Boston College, 2008 Join 25K+ readers. Get…
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Are better looking attorneys more successful?
ems like it: Attorneys in the private sector (where jobs are far more lucrative) are better looking. Male attorneys who are more handsome are more likely to make partner. More attractive attorneys graduating in the 1970's earned more 5 and 15 years into their practice. However, there was no impact for beauty for attorneys who graduated in the 1980's. Here's the abstract: We propose several models in which an ascriptive characteristic generates earnings differentials and is sorted across sectors. The…
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My latest column in Wired Magazine – 5 ways to increase intelligence:
latest column in Wired magazine quickly reviews easy ways we can boost smarts. You should check it out here. You can read my other Wired articles (including pieces on how to be happier, how to have a long marriage and how to be more creative) here. Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: What 10 things should you do every day to improve your life? What do people regret the most before they die? What five things can make…
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Does Jane Austen’s vision of women line up with what science knows?
s: Empirical Literary Darwinists investigate how themes and patterns predicted by human evolutionary theory are evident in fictive works. The current study fills an important gap in this emerging literature, and provides additional information in an area currently underrepresented in human evolutionary research in general. Previous research demonstrated how proper and dark male heroes in British Romantic literature represent high paternal investment and high mating effort strategies, respectively. This past work showed that people infer reproductively relevant behaviors from brief…
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Is there a science to sexiness?
bsp; As a general rule, the things we find sexy are indicators of health and fertility: Growing evidence shows that features we find attractive in members of the opposite sex signal important underlying dimensions of health and reproductive viability. It has been discovered that men with attractive faces have higher quality sperm, women with attractive bodies are more fertile, men and women with attractive voices lose their virginity sooner, men who spend more money than they earn have more sex…
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What’s the best way to network?
bsp; There's an interesting article in Harvard Business Review called "How to Build Your Network" by Brian Uzzi and Sharon Dunlap. They explain one of the reasons Paul Revere was so successful in his fateful ride was because he was a "superconnector": someone who bridged different cliques in a larger social network. One of the problems most of us have is that our networks are too inbred - we only know people who are very similar to us and we…
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Is “grit” the most important quality to possess?
telligence and creativity are great but you can't quit when the going gets tough if you ever really want to accomplish anything big. That's grit. Perseverance. Researchers have found that it exists apart from IQ and is more predictive of success than IQ in a variety of challenging environments from Ivy League schools to military academies to the National Spelling Bee: The importance of intellectual talent to achievement in all professional domains is well established, but less is known about…
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5 things you didn’t know about your voice:
n prefer women with feminine voices. Women don't. Speaking with a more animated voice can make you more charismatic. Your voice says a lot about you sexually. In fact, you can predict infidelity by listening to people's voices. Here are tips for speaking more persuasively. Join 25K+ readers. Get a free weekly update via email here.
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