#601 - Dr Andrew Thomas - Evolution's Secrets To Understanding Relationships
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Dr Andrew Thomas is a senior lecturer of psychology at Swansea University whose research focuses on sex differences and relationship preferences from an evolutionary perspective.
Evolution explains a large portion of why we like the things we like. Who we're attracted to, why we fall into and out of love, how our mental state affects our mating strategies. Therefore, if you are a human who ever intends on being in a relationship, this might be useful.
Expect to learn the 5 evolutionary theories which explain much of human mating, whether ChatGPT can correctly predict what traits men and women like most in each other, how many previous sexual partners people say they want their current partner to have had, how open men & women in the West are to polyamorous relationships, how sexual arousal can ruin a faithful relationship and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:03.2 | My guest today is Dr. Andrew Thomas. |
| 0:05.1 | He's a senior lecturer of psychology at Swansea University whose research focuses on sex |
| 0:09.8 | differences and relationship preferences from an evolutionary perspective. |
| 0:14.7 | Evolution explains a large portion of why we like the things we like, who we're attracted |
| 0:19.0 | to, why we fall into and out of love, how our mental state affects our mating strategies. |
| 0:24.4 | Therefore, if you are a human who ever intends on being in a relationship, this might |
| 0:29.0 | be useful. |
| 0:30.0 | Expect to learn the five evolutionary theories which explain much of human mating. |
| 0:34.9 | Whether chat GPT can correctly predict what traits men and women like most in each other, |
| 0:39.7 | how many previous sexual partners people say they want in their current partner, how |
| 0:43.8 | many men and women in the West are open to polyamorous relationships, how sexual arousal |
| 0:49.4 | can ruin a faithful relationship, and much more. |
| 0:54.6 | One really cool cutting edge, evolutionary psychology stuff here, and Andrew is pumping |
| 0:59.9 | out research and papers at a terrifying rate. |
| 1:03.3 | I think you're going to absolutely love him. |
| 1:05.3 | So yeah, get ready for this one. |
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