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#319 - David Buss - The Hidden Psychology Of Sexual Conflict

Modern Wisdom

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The Over Perception and the Under Perception Bias in Relationships

Men tend to over and for sexual interest when it's not there. This is work that I initially developed with Marty Hazleton, whose former graduate student now a professor at UCLA. And what we argue is that it's an adaptive bias. Men have this over perception bias to err on the side of not missing out on anything - even if there are false alarms.

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