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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…

14 min readMar 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

13 min readAug 6, 2020

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

My first ever psychology assignment for my MSc in 2021.

9 min readMay 2, 2023

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

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William Costello

Sexual Conflict

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

8 min readMay 7, 2022

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Sexual Conflict

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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…

11 min readApr 9, 2022

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Is Evolutionary Psychology Compatible With Cross-Cultural Psychology?

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William Costello

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…

12 min readMar 14, 2022

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Is the Human Mind Massively Modular?

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William Costello

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.

7 min readAug 20, 2020

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Facecrime: Smile Like You Mean It

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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…

9 min readJul 7, 2020

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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.

12 min readJun 25, 2020

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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?

15 min readJun 11, 2020

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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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