Decoding Love (33 page)
Authors: Andrew Trees
precious egg-cheap sperm distinction
priming
proceptivity, female
promiscuity
double standards, Madonna-whore dichotomy
of female, testicle size and
genetic component
lies about sexual past
sluts and studs
See also
infidelity
infidelity
Psychology of Human Conflict, The
(Guthrie)
(Guthrie)
reasoning, poor choices and
Red Queen, The
(Ridley)
(Ridley)
Red Queen situations
relationships.
See
love; marriage;
specific issues
See
love; marriage;
specific issues
reluctant males
Rice, William
Ridley, Matt
Rinaldi, Sergio
romance.
See
love
See
love
Rules, The
(Fein and Schneider)
(Fein and Schneider)
runaway sexual selection
Russell, Bertrand
satisficers vs. maximizers
scents.
See
smells
See
smells
Schwartz, Barry
Schwartz, Norbert
Schwartz, Pepper
self-confidence
self-deception
self-perception
semen
sex
benefits
brain responses
brain space devoted to
duration of coitus
emotional attachment after first encounter
fantasies
market value
protection from parasites
reproduction methods
strengthening of pair-bond
variety in
withholding of
See also
infidelity; promiscuity
infidelity; promiscuity
Sex Signals
(Perper)
(Perper)
sexual fantasies
sexual liberation
sexual past
sexual selection
brain size
Darwin’s theory
evolutionary strategies
sexual selection (
cont.
)
cont.
)
female orgasm
high-cost signals
parental investment theory
runaway
in shaping of personality traits
sperm competition
See also
genetic fitness indicators
genetic fitness indicators
“she wants me” bias
Shubik, Martin
signals.
See
body chemistry; body language
See
body chemistry; body language
Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
(Gigerenzer and Todd)
(Gigerenzer and Todd)
skin
sluts
smells
attractiveness and
ovulation and
perception of weight and
perfumes
smelly T-shirt test
smiles
social brain hypothesis
sperm competition
sperm/egg distinction
Strauss, Neil
studs
success, financial
attractiveness of
cheating and
female orgasm and
as health indicator
See also
wealth symmetricality
wealth symmetricality
Symons, Donald
testicle size
testosterone
“Theory of Marriage, The” (Becker)
They Call Me Naughty Lola
(Rose)
(Rose)
threat display
Todd, Peter F.
Too Many Women?
(Guttentag)
(Guttentag)
touch
hugs
initiation of
market value
messages in
positive response to
Trivers, Robert
T-shirt study
twelve-bonk rule (“try a dozen” rule)
unintentional messages.
See
body chemistry; body language
See
body chemistry; body language
vasopressin
voice
appeal of pitch
communication through tone
during peak fertility
status in group and
waist-to-hip ratio
Wansink, Brian
wealth
benefits of marriage
earnings cost of marriage to women
envy
happiness
indirect signaling about
market value
in men’s desirability
of women, men’s avoidance of
Wedekind, Claus
weight
discussions about
market value of
perception of
waist-to-hip ratio
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(Albee)
(Albee)
Wodehouse, P. G.
youth, men’s preference for
Zahavi, Amotz
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