#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with David Buss about the differential mating strategies of men and women. They discuss the controversy that surrounds evolutionary psychology, the denial of sex differences, cross-cultural findings in social science, the replication crisis in psychology, the biological definition of sex, why men and women have affairs, ovulatory shifts in mate preference, sex differences in jealousy and infidelity, the sources of unhappiness in marriage, mate-value discrepancies, what we can learn from dating apps, polyamory and polygamy, the plight of stepchildren, the “Dark Triad” personality type, the MeToo movement, and other topics.

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0:46.7	Today I'm speaking with David Bus. David is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas
0:53.2	at Austin, and he's the author of many books, most recently when men behave badly.
1:00.8	The hidden roots of sexual deception, harassment, and assault. And David and I get into many
1:07.1	interesting topics around the differential mating strategies of men and women. We discuss the
1:14.5	controversy that surrounds evolutionary psychology. The denial of sex differences that one
1:21.3	increasingly encounters on the left, cross-cultural findings in human psychology,
1:27.3	the replication crisis in psychology, and then we get into the differences between
1:34.3	men and women with respect to the relevant attitudes toward sex and
1:41.9	mate preferences, sex differences in jealousy and infidelity, the sources of unhappiness and
1:48.7	marriage, mate value discrepancies, what we can learn from dating apps, polyamory and polygamy,
1:57.6	the plight of stepchildren, and the so-called dark triad personality type that causes so much
2:05.7	mayhem, the Me Too movement, and related topics. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this conversation as much
2:13.6	as I did, all very useful stuff to understand, and now I bring you David Bus.
2:26.1	I am here with David Bus. David, thanks for joining me. Glad to be talking to you, Sam.
2:31.7	So you have written a very interesting book, you've written several books, but the current one is
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