Today’s classroom exercise is to [1] read this snippet from a psychology paper, then [2] identify all the assumptions that the authors make about what people think about, then [3] ask yourself if you believe those assumptions. The paper is “What Men Want: The Role of Reflective Opposite-Sex Normative Preferences in Alcohol Use Among College […]
Tag: Men
Men, Girlfriends Who Sleep With…
Today’s Headline of the Day is from the Science Daily web site: Men More Likely to Stick With Girlfriends Who Sleep With Other Women Than Other Men The press release describes a paper done by a daughter-and-father team [pictured here, at right]: “Sex differences in response to imagining a partner’s heterosexual or homosexual affair,” Jaime […]
Ovulating Women Ogle Forgettable Men
A soon-to-be-published study ogles women who ogle while they ovulate: “I Only Have Eyes for You: Ovulation Redirects Attention (But Not Memory) to Attractive Men,” Uriah S. Anderson, Elaine F. Perea, D. Vaughn Becker, Joshua M. Ackerman, Jenessa R. Shapiro, Steven L. Neuberg and Douglas T. Kenrick, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, article in press […]
%-of-men vs. %-of-women
Further data from our What Percentage of All Statistics Are Pointless? project — a comparison of google search results for the phrase “percentage of men” versus a search for “percentage of women”: