Why single, sex-hungry men crave an iPhone. Sept 2014




The Psychology of Attractiveness Podcast show

Summary: <p>This month we discover which personality traits make a person lucky in love. Also, how men and women respond differently when their partner is complimented, and why single men crave iPhones. </p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/PAP201409/PAP-2014-09.mp3">Download the MP3</a></p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&amp;refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QvQAwJcG8ms/VDFFPd_7aEI/AAAAAAAABew/GXUVoGx4xJ4/s2048-Ic42/phone.jpg"><br> <p><i>What kind of man is desperate to buy an iPhone? New research suggests it's not only the kind of man who has the time and inclination to make himself a smartphone hat.</i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b></p><p>Hennighausen, C., &amp; Schwab, F. (2014). Relationship status moderates men's conspicuous consumption of smartphones. <span style="font-style: italic;">Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 5</span>(2), 13-16. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2014.30">Read summary</a></p><p>Berg, V., Lummaa, V., Lahdenperä, M., Rotkirch, A., &amp; Jokela, M. (in press). Personality and long-term reproductive success measured by the number of grandchildren. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.07.006">Read summary</a></p><p>Brown, C. M., Daniels, E. R., Lustgraaf, C. J. N., &amp; Sacco, D. F. (2014). Verbal compliments as a differential source of mate poaching threat for men and women. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolutionary Psychology, 12</span>(4), 736-756. <a href="http://www.epjournal.net/articles/verbal-compliments-as-a-differential-source-of-mate-poaching-threat-for-men-and-women/">Read paper</a></p>