Female Choice

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