Men who can’t get sex are seen as losers We hear a lot about double standards between female and male sexual behaviour. Women who have a lot of sex are often slut shamed, while men who have lots of sex are seen as ‘studs.’ What is often ignored however, is how true the exact inverse of this is. Men…

Abstract People have used physiognomy to infer personality from faces for centuries, including the godfather of criminal anthropology, Cesare Lombroso. Trait evaluations from facial perception predict important outcomes, including sentencing decisions, despite having low predictive power for real world behaviour. Our study hypothesised that feminised female faces would be perceived…

“Critically review evolutionary literature which addresses sex differences in both the perpetuation of and defence against antagonistic mating strategies. First, describe what sex differences (if any) exist, and then critique the representation of women in this body of literature.” This essay critically reviews evolutionary literature around sex differences in the…

“Evolutionary psychology focuses on human universals whereas cultural psychology focuses on cultural differences. Thus, those two fields are incompatible with one another.” Critically discuss this statement. “The tabula of human nature was never rasa, and it is now being read” (Hamilton, 1997, as cited in Buss, 2001). This essay critically…

The modularity of mind debate centers around whether human minds consist of discrete neural units with distinct functions. A central arena for the debate is evolutionary psychology and “massive modularity”. …

You see the image and you already know what this is about. You may be suffering from a certain level of fatigue with this story but don’t worry this is not another “what really happened?” piece. …

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. Regretfully, I had an erroneous vision of gay men as effeminate, flamboyant, limp wristed and somewhat…silly. …

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. I now simply must take it upon myself to mansplain the Karen phenomenon to you all. This essay aims to explore the following, Who is…

The following is an essay based on an updated transcript of my opening remarks at the Battle of Ideas 2019 where I spoke on a panel on the topic of, “Individuals Vs Identities: Can we move beyond Tribal Politics?” I feel the sentiment is more relevant now than ever. Identity over Individuality & Suffering over Achievements How…