Psychology of Attraction
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The Cognitive Cost of Good Banter
In 2017, a team of researchers in New Zealand discovered that kea parrots have a specific call reserved entirely for play. Not for food. Not for danger. Not for mating.…
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Nobody Wants Scott: The Actual Architecture of Male Attractiveness
In October of 1911, two men raced for the same frozen finish line, for reasons that had nothing to do with women and everything to do with what women, a…
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The Confidence Con: What Actually Makes a Man Magnetic
In 2016, the psychologist who helped launch one of the most-watched TED Talks in history stood up and quietly demolished her own life’s work. Dana Carney had co-authored the original…