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precious egg-cheap sperm distinction
 
priming
 
proceptivity, female
 
promiscuity
 
double standards, Madonna-whore dichotomy
 
of female, testicle size and
 
genetic component
 
lies about sexual past
 
sluts and studs
 
See also
infidelity
 
Psychology of Human Conflict, The
(Guthrie)
 
reasoning, poor choices and
 
Red Queen, The
(Ridley)
 
Red Queen situations
 
relationships.
See
love; marriage;
specific issues
 
reluctant males
 
Rice, William
 
Ridley, Matt
 
Rinaldi, Sergio
 
romance.
See
love
 
Rules, The
(Fein and Schneider)
 
runaway sexual selection
 
Russell, Bertrand
 
 
 
satisficers vs. maximizers
 
scents.
See
smells
 
Schwartz, Barry
 
Schwartz, Norbert
 
Schwartz, Pepper
 
self-confidence
 
self-deception
 
self-perception
 
semen
 
sex
 
benefits
 
brain responses
 
brain space devoted to
 
duration of coitus
 
emotional attachment after first encounter
 
fantasies
 
market value
 
protection from parasites
 
reproduction methods
 
strengthening of pair-bond
 
variety in
 
withholding of
 
See also
infidelity; promiscuity
 
Sex Signals
(Perper)
 
sexual fantasies
 
sexual liberation
 
sexual past
 
sexual selection
 
brain size
 
Darwin’s theory
 
evolutionary strategies
 
sexual selection (
cont.
)
 
female orgasm
 
high-cost signals
 
parental investment theory
 
runaway
 
in shaping of personality traits
 
sperm competition
 
See also
genetic fitness indicators
 
“she wants me” bias
 
Shubik, Martin
 
signals.
See
body chemistry; body language
 
Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
(Gigerenzer and Todd)
 
 
skin
 
sluts
 
smells
 
attractiveness and
 
ovulation and
 
perception of weight and
 
perfumes
 
smelly T-shirt test
 
smiles
 
social brain hypothesis
 
sperm competition
 
sperm/egg distinction
 
Strauss, Neil
 
studs
 
success, financial
 
attractiveness of
 
cheating and
 
female orgasm and
 
as health indicator
 
See also
wealth symmetricality
 
Symons, Donald
 
 
 
testicle size
 
testosterone
 
“Theory of Marriage, The” (Becker)
 
They Call Me Naughty Lola
(Rose)
 
threat display
 
Todd, Peter F.
 
Too Many Women?
(Guttentag)
 
touch
 
hugs
 
initiation of
 
market value
 
messages in
 
positive response to
 
Trivers, Robert
 
 
T-shirt study
 
twelve-bonk rule (“try a dozen” rule)
 
 
 
unintentional messages.
See
body chemistry; body language
 
 
 
vasopressin
 
voice
 
appeal of pitch
 
communication through tone
 
during peak fertility
 
status in group and
 
 
 
waist-to-hip ratio
 
Wansink, Brian
 
wealth
 
benefits of marriage
 
earnings cost of marriage to women
 
envy
 
happiness
 
indirect signaling about
 
market value
 
in men’s desirability
 
of women, men’s avoidance of
 
Wedekind, Claus
 
weight
 
discussions about
 
market value of
 
perception of
 
waist-to-hip ratio
 
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(Albee)
 
Wodehouse, P. G.
 
 
 
youth, men’s preference for
 
 
 
Zahavi, Amotz
 

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