"Ten politically incorrect truths about human nature"

[XanBcoo]

Odd that the parenthetical comment under #6 was not posted in bold caps at the top of the article:

(The biological mechanism by which [any of this] occurs is not yet understood.)

However, this was a good read overall. Some of the correlations seem pretty interesting and sound (especially the male to female size ratio in polygynous societies. That's something you can stand behind), but the rest of it sounds like they just made a bunch of it up on the spot, despite having "references". Clearly, like many of you have said, these are just very interesting observations, some based on common sense, and some unsuccessfully backed by science. I largely disagree with Evolutionary Psychology in the end, so I'm not surprised most of this stuff made me just laugh out loud.

#1 almost made me stop reading the article. Yeah, guys love blue eyes because they watch girls' pupils dilating.

[el_boss]

Yeah, guys love blue eyes because they watch girls' pupils dilating.

That's was pretty stupid actually. I mean it's nearly impossible to see the subtle changes even if a person has blue eyes. It is true though, I have seen it myself. That womens pupils dilate when they really like you.

A more believable explanation would be that it's easier to fool yourself that the person likes you if they have blue eyes.

[rockmanj]

Once i read that the article was by evolutionary psychologists, i became a bit skeptical, as Evolutionary Psych tends to claim it has "scientific evidence" for behaviors, when all they really have is speculation. Ive been studying this subject for the past few months, and their methodology is a bit...flawed, to put it lightly. Therefore, i dont really take too many of those "truths" too seriously, since for one, there is no practical way to establish that our ancestors were thinking in their develpmental phases (50,000 years or so ago), and also its absurd to generalize all human behavior, especially since another major claim of Evolutionary Psych is that all people have the same general psychology, regardless of location, ethnicity, etc., and that it has not changed in 50,000 years which of course couldnt really be true. The truth is that there is so much variance (6 billion different brains), that there's no way to make truisms about behaviour.