Macken Murphy

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Modern Wisdom · The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtable - #1133 · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

So it was like, yeah, they're more attractive, but now I'm not as impressed by their personality under this condition.

Which is where attractiveness was up, but datability had... Yeah, it was either datability or it may have been overall personality perception, but it was some variable in that mix for sure.

There was a guy, I don't know if it was the same one, but he was presenting a poster at HBAS on the evolutionary psychology of the X. So it's something that people are interested in for sure.

It's up and coming, yeah.

There's been a couple of publications on it already.

Well, what is the evolutionary psychology of the X?

I think that's exactly right.

Yeah, I think that it's a reflection, this sex difference in the ick, which Steve says is now backed by good data and is also something that everyone knows anecdotally.

I think it reflects different risk levels between men and women, where for men, the biggest risk is, and this is something that a lot of evolutionary psychologists talk about,

biggest risk is that you miss a mating opportunity whereas for women the biggest risk is that you mate with the wrong person and so it's more important to have like this visceral response where it's like oh you know that last thing just pushed me over the threshold and you're now selected out like i do not want to more discerning yeah exactly uh what's the speaking of the sort of current world of

The sociosexual few.

The promiscuous 10% is the kind of meme version of it.

Yeah.

But I actually, so I think that tons of people at home and in the YouTube comment section, I 100% think it's interesting and take it for granted that what you're saying is true.

But where do you think the myth actually originates from?

And what do you think explains the, because it's not just necessarily the myth of the chat.

It's also the illusion of the chat where it's like people have this profound felt sense that they're being excluded from the mating market where some other, you know, some gorgeous guys are having tons of fun.

Yeah, I will highlight that this discussion is bordering on a really controversial debate in the evolutionary social sciences, which is whether humans are more like maximally constrained polygynasts, where it's like we're naturally an animal where males mate with multiple females and accumulate blood.

wives, so to say, but cultural practices and cultural evolution has restrained us.

And then the other perspective is that obviously humans have a menu of mating systems, as a lot of evolutionary psychologists like to say, but in as much as we have a default state, it's pretty clearly monogamy.

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