Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire–Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do (35 page)

Shaw, George Bernard

short-term casual sex

siblings, differences among

Simpson, Jeffry A.

Simpson, Jessica

Sinatra, Frank

Singh, Devendra

Six Days Seven Nights
(film)

size of parents

skin color and fertility

Smith-Lovin, Lynn

social control theorists

socialization, human behavior as product

social ornamentation

Sociology
(Robertson)

soldiers, dying for their country

sons and likelihood of divorce

sororal polygyny

Spears, Britney

spousal abuse

stability for natural selection

Standard Social Science Model

biology, humans exempt

blank slate (tabula rasa), human nature as

brain, exception to evolution

environment, human behavior as product of

evolution stops at the neck

family

gender socialization

human exceptionalism

marriage

media impact on sex and mating

men and women, differences

political and economic inequalities

religion and group conflict

sex and mating

socialization, human behavior as product of

See also
evolutionary psychology “staying alive” theory of female criminality

stepparents, dangers

stereotypes

Stone Age body and brain

suicide

suicide bombers and Islam

Sulloway, Frank J.

“superior customer service policy,”

sweets preference

Syrian women and crime

systemizers (male brain)

 

tan, attractiveness of

Tasaday (hoax)

teenage boys and older women

temperaments

terrorist groups (traditional)

testes (size), female promiscuity

theft vs. robbery

Thomas, Kristin Scott

“token resistance,”

Tooby, John

Trivers, Robert L.

Trivers-Willard hypothesis

trivial altercations, homicides

truth as guiding principle in science

Turney, Lee Anne

TV and friendships

 

uxoricide (killing of one's wife)

 

Vassilyev, Mrs. Feodor

violence

sex ratio at birth and

See also
crime and violence virgins, suicide bombing

 

waist (small)

“War on Terror,”

Washington Post

wealth personal network and kin

polygyny and

sex ratio at birth

Welles, Orson

Whitmeyer, Joseph M.

Willard, Dan E.

willingness to invest in woman

Wilson, Margo

worshiping of animate objects

Wright, Robert

 

xenophobic attitudes

 

Yamagishi, Toshio

Yanomamö: The Fierce People
(Chagnon)

youth (age) and ideal female beauty

 

Zeta-Jones, Catherine

Alan S. Miller
Until his very untimely death in January 2003 at the age of 44, Alan S. Miller was Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hokkaido University, Japan. He was also Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He received his BA from UCLA and his PhD from the University of Washington, and had served on the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Florida State University. His last home institution, Hokkaido University, is one of Japan's elite national universities, and Professor Miller was the first non-Japanese academic to be given a permanent, tenured position there. The Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hokkaido University is the leading department in Japan in the area of evolutionary psychology.

Professor Miller was the author of more than twenty-five articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, writing in the areas of crime and deviant behavior, religion, and cross-cultural social psychology. He has written an academic book (with Satoshi Kanazawa) that explores the origin and nature of social order in contemporary Japanese society,
Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan
(Westview, 2000).

 

Satoshi Kanazawa
Satoshi Kanazawa is Reader in Management and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University College London, and in the Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London. He received his MA from the University of Washington and his PhD from the University of Arizona, both in sociology. He was the first sociologist to introduce modern evolutionary psychology into sociology. His evolutionary psychological work has appeared in peer-reviewed scientific journals in all the major social sciences (sociology, psychology, political science, economics, and anthropology), as well as biology, and he has published more than sixty articles and chapters. He currently serves on the editorial boards of
Evolutionary Psychology
and
Managerial and Decision Economics.
His work has been widely featured in the mass media in several continents, including the
New York Times
, the
Washington Post
, the
Los Angeles Times
, the
Boston Globe
, the
Times
(London),
Time
,
Psychology Today
, the
Times Higher Education Supplement
, and the
Times Education Supplement
, and he has been interviewed on the BBC World Ser vice, BBC Radio 4, and National Public Radio's
All Things Considered
, among other TV and radio shows. With Alan S. Miller, he is coauthor of
Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan
(Westview, 2000).