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Our first (ever) documentary film is complete! Our team @ApplyCogSci worked with painters from Jaipur, India & @SuperflyIndia to illustrate the process of mastering this ancient and sacred art form @TempletonRelig liberalarts.utexas.edu/news/… Link to video: youtube.com/watch?v=oxF3Ggnk…

Mate value, mate poaching and hidden predictors of infidelity with @ProfDavidBuss hubermanlab.com/dr-david-bus…

The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating By David M. Buss @ProfDavidBuss "Humans don't seem well designed for dispassionate intellectual discourse about domains that have profound personal relevance." This book was a fascinating romp through the politically charged mine field of mate selection and sex differences. Buss-who has written volumes on this subject-explains the subject in an avuncular way, with very little jargon. Eloquent and yet simple may be the best way to phrase it. People with no knowledge of the field could easily read and enjoy this book. Chapter 2: What Women Want "Undependable people, in contrast, provide erratically and inflict heavy costs on their mates. In a study of newlywed couples, my lab found that emotionally unstable men were especially costly to women." Chapter 4: Casual Sex "A lover my also serve as a potential replacement for a woman's regular mate if he should desert, become ill or injured, prove to be infertile, or die, which were not unusual events in ancestral environments." Chapter 6: Staying Together "Despite these similarities, there are intriguing gender differences in the content and focus of jealously and in the specific events that trigger jealousy."

The conference consisted of 16 talks and 5 discussion sections- see a recording of the whole conference at the link below. Some of the attendees were Cordelia Fine @hoovlet @DaphnaJoel @ginarippon1 @PsychoSchmitt David Geary @ProfDavidBuss @CostelloWilliam @TaniaArline Marco del Guidice @sbkaufman David Puts @Lise_Eliot and Maryanne Fisher 2/20 santafeboys.org/recordings-o…

3 celebrations in 3 days! Congratulations to the brave & brilliant Leda Cosmides on her induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Every relationship has its ups and downs. Most people evaluate a relationship based on the height of the highs, when what matters more is the depth of the lows.

"Mates do not come a la carte but prix fixe: Each potential mate has a set of features that must be accepted or rejected wholesale." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…