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Sex Differences in Human Mate Preferences

“How an evolutionary perspective can help us understand cross-cultural consistency and variation in mate preferences, and how these…

Mar 9, 2022

Sex Differences in Human Mate Preferences

Mar 9, 2022

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Step Your Dick Up: Why incels deserve better advice

Men who can’t get sex are seen as losers

Aug 6, 2020

Step Your Dick Up: Why incels deserve better advice

Aug 6, 2020

Face Value: The importance of feminine mystique in perceived facial trustworthiness.

My first ever psychology assignment for my MSc in 2021.

May 2, 2023

Face Value: The importance of feminine mystique in perceived facial trustworthiness.

May 2, 2023

Sexual Conflict

“Critically review evolutionary literature which addresses sex differences in both the perpetuation of and defence against antagonistic…

May 7, 2022

Sexual Conflict

May 7, 2022

Is Evolutionary Psychology Compatible With Cross-Cultural Psychology?

“Evolutionary psychology focuses on human universals whereas cultural psychology focuses on cultural differences. Thus, those two fields…

Apr 9, 2022

Is Evolutionary Psychology Compatible With Cross-Cultural Psychology?

Apr 9, 2022

Is the Human Mind Massively Modular?

The modularity of mind debate centers around whether human minds consist of discrete neural units with distinct functions. A central arena…

Mar 14, 2022

Is the Human Mind Massively Modular?

Mar 14, 2022

Facecrime: Smile Like You Mean It

Nick Sandmann became the locus for righteous outrage. We form opinions on symbols. A smirk become’s everything that’s wrong with America.

Aug 20, 2020

Facecrime: Smile Like You Mean It

Aug 20, 2020

Will and Jada: The Poster Couple that Polyamory Needs?

It wasn’t until I moved from Ireland to England at the age of 22 that I realised that not all gay men were stereotypically camp…

Jul 7, 2020

Will and Jada: The Poster Couple that Polyamory Needs?

Jul 7, 2020

We Need to Talk About Karen

What started off as a harmless internet meme to poke fun at a stereotype that we all recognise has turned into something a lot darker.

Jun 25, 2020

We Need to Talk About Karen

Jun 25, 2020

Better the Battle of Ideas than the Battle of Identities

Essay based on my opening remarks at Battle of Ideas 2019. Individuals Vs Identities: Can we move beyond Tribal Politics?

Jun 11, 2020

Better the Battle of Ideas than the Battle of Identities

Jun 11, 2020

William Costello

William Costello

Psychology PhD Student University of Texas at Austin. MSc Psychology, Culture and Evolution from Brunel University London 2020/21. Bylines: Areo and Quillette.

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