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Authors: Douglas T. Kenrick,Vladas Griskevicius
Tags: #Business & Economics, #Consumer Behavior, #Economics, #General, #Education, #Decision-Making & Problem Solving, #Psychology, #Cognitive Psychology, #Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, #Social Psychology, #Science, #Life Sciences, #Evolution, #Cognitive Science
The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think (44 page)
Sundie, Jill,
28
,
59
,
154
,
156–157
Supply and demand, sexual,
179–182
Symbiotic mutualism,
187
,
189
,
190
,
194
,
203
Talking versus writing,
99–101
Taylor, Frederick Winslow,
69
Teenagers/young adults
causes of death among,
123
,
173
equality matching and,
62
fast versus slow strategies and,
128–129
mating effort and,
122–123
,
125–128
,
173
rating, as competent,
128
status subself and,
38
Testosterone,
18
,
19
,
123
,
125
,
126
,
127
,
183
Theory of the Leisure Class, The
(Veblen),
143
Theresa, Mother,
38
Three Faces of Eve, The
(movie),
24–25
Tiffany & Co.,
199
Time
(magazine),
192
Tipping
exploiting,
188
sex differences in,
173
,
174
Too Many Women?
(Guttentag and Secord),
179–180
Topline Strategy Group,
147
Toyota Prius, reason for buying, uncovering,
147–149
,
150–151
Trade-offs, making,
19
,
119–120
,
120–121
Trivers, Robert,
60
Trivial altercations,
123–124
Trump, Donald,
168
Trust game,
70–71
Truth-seeking, accuracy and,
77–78
Tversky, Amos,
5
,
97
,
111
,
112
,
113
Ultimate reasons
as commonly overlooked,
12
,
159
described,
11–12
exploring, for conspicuous consumption,
151–157
,
158
links between proximate reasons and, being unaware of,
12–13
,
150–151
,
158–159
and the ovulatory cycle,
14
,
15
and proximate reasons, as complementary,
15
valuable insight provided by,
16
,
20
See also
Evolutionary challenges, the need to solve
Unpredictable environments, influence of, on life history strategy,
134–136
,
137
,
139–140
,
141
Unrestricted strategists,
156
,
157
,
166
US presidents, expectations of,
64
,
65–66
Van den Bergh, Bram,
148
Vigilant subself.
See
Self-protection subself
Violence,
17
,
33
,
57
,
123–124
,
134
,
135
,
138
,
173
,
179
,
180
Virginity,
163
Visaria, Leela,
171–172
von Hippel, William,
17
Vongas, John,
157
Wall Street game.
See
Game theory
Wall Street model.
See
Market economics
Wall Street
(movie),
3
Wall Street traders,
1
,
16
,
45
,
56
,
67
,
126
Walmart,
198
Walt Disney Company,
51–52
,
72–73
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite
(Kurzban),
25
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes
(Belsky and Gilovich),
81
Wiesel, Elie,
186
Wilson, Tim,
147
Winehouse, Amy,
138
Women
bride price paid for,
162–163
,
171
,
182
and conspicuous consumption,
154–155
,
159
,
182
dowry of,
162–163
,
171–172
as escorts, men paying for,
161–162
,
163
,
167
and first professions of love,
165–167
as first-time mothers, age of,
124
,
132
,
134
generous tipping and,
173
,
174
jealousy and,
178
,
179
mate-acquisition game for,
173
,
174–176
mate-retention game for,
176–177
mating effort and,
122
,
123
,
132
and men’s risk taking,
17
,
19–20
and onset of menstruation, age of,
134
,
135
ovulatory cycle of, subconscious influence of,
13–16
,
19
,
89–90
,
93
,
182
parenting stage and,
124
,
125
preference of, for men with financial prospects,
170–171
,
173
pregnant, and the disease-avoidance subself,
36
ratio of men to, and sexual supply and demand,
179–182
risk taking and,
175
sex detectors of, and the mate-acquisition subself,
88–90
,
93
sexual economics and,
153
,
163
,
164
standards of, for partners,
164–165
,
177
testosterone levels of,
123
,
125
and their response to insults,
39
young and beautiful, men’s preference for,
167–169
,
170
,
171
,
173
World According to Garp, The
(Irving),
6
World Health Organization,
35
,
86
World Series of Poker,
125–126
Wozniak, Steve,
61
,
62
,
63–64
,
91
,
93
,
127
Writing, talking versus,
99–101
Young adults.
See
Teenagers/young adults
Young beautiful women, men’s preference for,
167–169
,
170
,
171
,
173
Zambian aid fiasco,
75–76
,
85–86
Zepter Luxury International,
199
Zuckerberg, Mark,
127
Zuckerman, Mort,
186