123: David Buss | Troubleshooting Strategies from the Evolution of Desire
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
David Buss (@ProfDavidBuss) is considered the world's leading scientific expert on the evolutionary psychology of human mating strategies. He is the author of several books on the subject, most recently The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating.
What We Discuss with David Buss:- How dating apps work and what they're doing to our brains.
- Mate-switching strategies: why affairs happen and the mechanisms at play.
- How we can track our own mate value to keep our relationships strong and secure.
- Why mating strategies tend to be universal even if their cultural variations seem to suggest otherwise.
- Why a vacation with your partner is a good stress-test for seeing what might be in store for your future together.
- And much more...
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:32.0 | As always, I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:35.0 | Today, I'm talking with Dr. David Bus. |
| 0:38.0 | He's a regular here on the show, and he's a professor of psychology at the University of Texas in Austin. |
| 0:43.0 | But he's an ordinary professor. |
| 0:45.0 | He's the guy when it comes to evolutionary psychology and mating. |
| 0:49.0 | He's authored a grip of books about why we feel desire. |
| 0:52.0 | What it means, how jealousy works, as we've discussed in previous episodes with Dwayne Awelch. |
| 0:57.0 | And he's got just a fascinating insight into the mind of us humans and how and why we mate. |
| 1:04.0 | Today, we'll discover what dating apps are doing to our brain. |
| 1:07.0 | And a little useful insight about how they work. |
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