David Buss is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology, currently at the University of Texas at Austin.
His primary research focus is on strategies of human mating, and he is most well-known for his studies on mate selection, tactics of mate attraction, infidelity, tactics of mate retention, tactics of mate poaching, and the mating emotions of jealousy, lust, and love.
David has also authored several books for wide audiences, such as “The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating,” and most recently “When Men Behave Badly” and also textbooks such as “Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind.”
This episode covers topics like freedom of sexual choice, error management in the sexual domain, jealousy, polyamory and online dating.
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Buss' work is a tour de force!
Thanks, another great interview–just found you.
"Reasonable but need to be tested " that was a bar
It's always great to listen to David Buss ❤
Within seconds they conflate the manosphere with incels and go straight to talking about an incel mass murderer.
This is the exact kind of nonsense that leads to the manosphere existing.
Love Dr. Buss
I've listened to many many podcast from David Buss, and read his books and.. would be nice to know what to do in some of the situations described.
what solutions do we have ? as men, how should we react to back-up mates and mate value discrepancy ?
It would be great to pinpoint how to manage those situations
Will women cultivate backup mates on average ? how to act when it happens, as you wouldn't want to cut off your mate social environment and isolate her,
but you would still want for this back-up phenomenon to stop,
Knowing about behaviors to adopt in order to manage those situation would reduce the amount of conflicts, understanding the problem isn't enough, we need solutions haha
The "HuSECA theory" (The Human Superorganism's Evolutionary Chief Administrator): "Female hardwired hypergamy" servs as a cardinal instrument to ensure the greater good of human evolution (thus hardwiring females to propergate with top quality males), i.e. first line of direct regulation. Furthermore, attempting the elimination of perceived low quality males from the evolutionary pool, thus boosting the evolutionary momentum, HuSECA has HARDWIRED PERCEIVED "LOW QUALITY" MALES WITH A PROPENSITY FOR SELF DESTRUCTION (suicide) i.e second line of indirect regulation. HuSECA uses a sexual starvation strategy, to agrivate the initiation of the potentially deadly male self destruction sequense. (The HuSECA theory by Lukas Lukason).
Enjoyed the podcast but man was it getting even more interesting from 1:02:09 onwards.
Thanks for the podcast Greg and David! <3
This was gold
Great interview! I wanted to explore some of the author's ideas before reading his book
Why women look through the lens of potential sexual predatorial behaviour – Because women are raped, abused molested more commonly when they are children, along with boys, the statistics are severely high. If only this book was matured through the trauma lens – the inevitable experience of the human condition, and, societal sexist conditioning lens. Men and women have their own experiences when it comes to victimisation from predators. When the energy of unprocessed trauma is swirled together with primal needs or trauma washes out primal needs, you have hyper vigilance. The question we need to ask is this: Why are men more predisposed to search for it where women are to hide from it…. did nature make men the initiator ?