Episode 18: "Boy If Life Were Only Like This" (With Joe Henrich)
Very Bad Wizards
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Asata: I think that marriage practices of a society actually have a big effect on male psychology in terms of testosterone. In polygynous societies, and most 85% of human societies have been polygynous, you're still on the mating market after you get married. We test married men's testosterone levels to see if they're actually still considering themselves on the market. Now you can get a bit more creative about how you might expect this mechanism to work across societies where you have a completely different environment culture. But it's that first part of establishing a psychological phenomenon that we can start there, and then build the case. It's just so it progresses a bit more slowly than we might
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