Rob Henderson suggests that the attraction some modern women feel towards violent men, such as serial killers or characters like Tony Soprano, may be an "evolutionary misfiring" of primate mating inst...

Rob Henderson posits that an evolutionary explanation for some women's attraction to violent men is rooted in primate behavior where a female primate, after her infant is killed by a male, will often ...

Among the Mehinaku tribe in Brazil, young men who refuse to participate in community-organized wrestling matches are mocked and teased.

Research indicates that people who score highly on the Dark Triad personality traits tend to mate with partners who are also similarly high in those traits.

While the average person may find someone with Dark Triad traits alluring for a short-term interaction, they tend to avoid individuals with these traits for long-term, committed relationships.

According to anthropologist David Gilmore's book 'Manhood in the Making,' the Mehinaku, an indigenous tribe in Brazil, organize wrestling matches for young men to display physical prowess, and young w...

In the study of assortative mating, the correlations between romantic partners for the Big Five personality traits are typically modest or small.

Men who score highly on the personality traits of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, collectively known as the Dark Triad, tend to have above-average success in first impressions and short...

In their book 'The Social Dimension of Sex,' researchers Diane Tice and Roy Baumeister argue that women's general romantic preferences for men who are older, taller, and more professionally successful...