From the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, T. Joel Wade, Gretchen Auer, and Tanya M. Roth (Bucknell): What is Love: Further Investigation of Love Acts; Daniel Kruger (Michigan): When Men are Scarce, Good Men Are Even Harder to Find: Life History, the Sex Ratio, and the Proportion of Men Married; James F. Doyle on A Woman’s Walk: Attractiveness in Motion; Anthony Cox (CPC) and Sarah Shaw and Maryanne Fisher (St. Mary’s): The Texas Billionaire’s Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles and Working Towards a Model of Normative Behavior for Long-term Committed Relationships; Anthony A. Volk (Brock): Human Breastfeeding is not Automatic: Why That Is So and What It Means for Human Evolution; and a review of Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller. Do you know, offhand, anyone who knows shorthand? As a skill fades, translators are in demand. High-profile suicides of public intellectuals have contributed to the stereotype of “tormented genius”, but are smarter people really more likely to take their own lives? From TED, Michael Shermer on the pattern behind self-deception. From Forward, an article on Israel’s Freedom Fries moment. Terrorists versus Soccer: Repressive governments and extremist insurgent groups have attempted to tamp down soccer obsession without success. Bruno Maddox on the allure of restaurant menus: Menus make us hungry, but they also have a deeper, existential power. Shadia Drury suggests that the lies on the state of the Gulf Oil Spill might be academically inspired by Straussianism. Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency Operations: An excerpt from The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Do Americans really want to cut the deficit? John Sides investigates.
