Macken Murphy
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Macken Murphy is an evolutionary biologist, writer, and podcaster. He is known for hosting the Species podcast and discussing evolutionary behavior, dating dynamics, and human relationships on platforms like Modern Wisdom.
What Macken Murphy has said on podcasts
12 statements
Disclosing appearance-enhancement efforts probably does not improve a person’s life.
“being transparent about the things that you're doing to look good probably won't improve your life”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 5:49
Makeup and plastic surgery increase women’s perceived attractiveness.
“these methods worked to make them more attractive”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 9:07
Awareness of plastic surgery reduces its positive effect on women’s dateability.
“when men were informed, meaning once men knew like, oh, this woman looks better, but she's had plastic surgery, they had a reduced datability effect”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 9:10
Sex differences in the ick reflect different mating risks for men and women.
“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”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 16:26
The evidence for humans having a default monogamous mating system is stronger.
“I personally think that the monogamy case is stronger”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 30:12
People increase preferences for resourceful partners when economically disadvantaged.
“when people are poor, as in as individuals, they're poor, or as in the opposite sex is rich and their sex is disenfranchised, they upregulate their mate preferences for resources”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 39:11
Experimental changes in income and gender inequality did not change beauty preferences.
“we didn't find beauty preferences moved”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 39:52
Male hunger increases preference for larger female bodies.
“when men are hungrier, they have a preference for larger women”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 48:36
Higher-income women show less interest in economically hypergamous mating.
“higher income women in. So in our experiment there was a broad, like they, they were less interested in mating up economically”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 57:42
In a gamified dating-app study, facial appearance mattered far more than height or biography.
“they found that essentially face was everything and anything else was. You could put anything in your bio, you could have any height and it wouldn't really make that much of a difference”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 1:18:00
Men’s parenting effort has tripled since the 1970s.
“men have tripled their parenting effort since the 1970s”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 1:23:33
Male beautification is primarily intended to attract women.
“in the male beautification, I would really put my foot down and say, no, that is to attract women”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 1:25:03
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