Intergender Dynamics

It’s better to have peer pressure than to not have peers. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction: Critical periods for healthy development 1:53 Arrested development 3:13 Relationships provide a secure base to explore from 4:27 Adolescence is a critical period for mating intelligence 6:14 Sociometer theory of self-esteem and mate value 7:18 Different developmental histories for boys and girls 8:32 Conclusion: Teenage love is a rite of passage References: - Meg Jay: The Defining Decade - Brian Gilmartin: Shyness and Love: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment - John L. Locke and Barry Bogin: Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Lee Kirkpatrick and Bruce Ellis: What is the Evolutionary Significance of Self-Esteem? The Adaptive Functions of Self-Evaluative Psychological Mechanisms - Lars Penke et al: How Self-Assessments Can Guide Human Mating Decisions Image: Summer Evening by Edward Hopper

"Autistic-like creatures, capable only of the most simple behaviors compatible with physiological survival… Their spirit has died." —John B. Calhoun Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction: Women most affected? 0:57 The demographic transition 2:00 An evolutionary mismatch? 3:03 Supernormal stimuli 4:13 A male autism epidemic? 5:33 A female narcissism epidemic? 6:44 Overpopulation in Utopia 8:44 The behavioral SINK 10:42 Conclusion: Death of the spirit References: - David Buss: The Mating Crisis Among Educated Women - Satoshi Kanazawa: Bowling with our imaginary friends - Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying: A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life - Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell: The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement - John B. Calhoun: Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population Image: The Lovers II by René Magritte

"Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." —Nineteen Eighty-Four Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction: Social groups 0:51 Abusive men 1:55 Abusive women 4:12 Force vs power 5:17 Hard totalitarianism 7:20 Soft totalitarianism 9:54 Conclusion: Room 101 References: - David Buss: When Men Behave Badly - Esther Vilar: The Polygamous Sex - Diana Fleischman: How to Train Your Boyfriend - Samuel T. Francis: Leviathan and Its Enemies - George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four - Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Image: Cost of Freedom by Mark Henson

"Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you." —Genesis 3:16 Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction: Socio-erotic exchange 2:01 The sex contract 3:37 Marrying for love 5:31 Normative monogamy 7:09 Government as substitute husband 8:41 Conclusion: The breakdown of monogamy References: - Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality - Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: Raising Darwin's Consciousness: Female Sexuality and the Prehominid Origins of Patriarchy - Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson: The puzzle of monogamous marriage Image: Unequal Marriage by Vasili Pukirev

Males compete, females choose. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction: The oldest form of discrimination? 1:37 Affective primacy 3:43 Emotion systems for mating 5:17 Error management theory 7:22 Hybristophilia 9:06 Assortative mating References: - Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow - Helen Fisher: Lust, attraction, and attachment in mammalian reproduction - Martie Haselton and David Buss: Error management theory: a new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading - Satoshi Kanazawa: Battered women, happy genes Image: God Speed by Edmund Leighton

"I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men." —Nikola Tesla Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction: Dysgenic fertility? 3:23 Mental traits are fitness indicators 5:13 The mind’s reproductive system 6:48 Failures of Mating Intelligence 9:28 Adaptive Mating Intelligence References: - Satoshi Kanazawa: General Intelligence as a Domain-Specific Adaptation - Geoffrey Miller: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature - Andrew Shaner, Geoffrey Miller, Jim Mintz: Mental Disorders as Catastrophic Failures of Mating Intelligence Image: A Tale from the Decameron by John William Waterhouse

Are modern women dating down? Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction: Paradigm shifts 1:33 LMS (female hypergamy) 3:41 Alpha f**ks, beta bucks (dual-mating hypothesis) 5:52 Sneaky f**kers (kleptogamy) 8:19 Spiteful mutants (Social Epistasis Amplification Model) References: - Steven Gangestad and Jeffry A. Simpson: The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism - Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Sam Vaknin: The Psychopathology of the Manosphere - Michael A. Woodley et al: Social Epistasis Amplifies the Fitness Costs of Deleterious Mutations, Engendering Rapid Fitness Decline Among Modernized Populations Image: Tristan and Isolde by Edmund Leighton