PinnedWilliam Costello·Mar 9, 2022Sex Differences in Human Mate Preferences“How an evolutionary perspective can help us understand cross-cultural consistency and variation in mate preferences, and how these…A response icon1A response icon1
PinnedWilliam Costello·Aug 6, 2020Step Your Dick Up: Why incels deserve better adviceMen who can’t get sex are seen as losersA response icon2A response icon2
William Costello·May 2, 2023Face Value: The importance of feminine mystique in perceived facial trustworthiness.My first ever psychology assignment for my MSc in 2021.
William Costello·May 7, 2022Sexual Conflict“Critically review evolutionary literature which addresses sex differences in both the perpetuation of and defence against antagonistic…
William Costello·Apr 9, 2022Is Evolutionary Psychology Compatible With Cross-Cultural Psychology?“Evolutionary psychology focuses on human universals whereas cultural psychology focuses on cultural differences. Thus, those two fields…
William Costello·Mar 14, 2022Is 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…
William Costello·Aug 20, 2020Facecrime: Smile Like You Mean ItNick Sandmann became the locus for righteous outrage. We form opinions on symbols. A smirk become’s everything that’s wrong with America.
William Costello·Jul 7, 2020Will 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…A response icon1A response icon1
William Costello·Jun 25, 2020We Need to Talk About KarenWhat started off as a harmless internet meme to poke fun at a stereotype that we all recognise has turned into something a lot darker.A response icon1A response icon1
William Costello·Jun 11, 2020Better the Battle of Ideas than the Battle of IdentitiesEssay based on my opening remarks at Battle of Ideas 2019. Individuals Vs Identities: Can we move beyond Tribal Politics?A response icon1A response icon1