What if Charles Darwin Went Speed Dating?
• Gender Studies
Evolutionary psychologists continue their quest to understand human dating and mating. Take speed dating:
"HurryDate participants are given three minutes in which to make their judgments," the psychologists wrote in a paper published in the May issue of the science journal Evolution and Human Behavior, "but they mostly could be made in three seconds."
Oh my, just imagine the horror of a woman smarter than you are!
It is also true, Li said, that very smart and successful women will have a harder time finding partners. "It seems that men want somebody intelligent enough so that they can recognize the man's brilliance," he said, "but not necessarily enough to challenge them — or so smart that they find someone else more interesting."
Can evolutionary psychology take the mystery out of how we meet and mate?