What podcasts say about Steve Stewart-Williams
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What Steve Stewart-Williams has said on podcasts
64 statements · 13 positive · 23 negative · 7 mixed · 21 neutral
Wariness of deception probably reduces attraction to artificially enhanced beauty.
“I think it probably is something more general like that. Just a general tendency to be wary of deception”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 11:01
Women are generally choosier and more prone to experiencing the ick.
“because women on average are choosier. Women are more prone to the egg”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 13:49
Highly sexually active men generally partner with highly sexually active women.
“Among the guys who are having sex with lots of women, generally having sex with the women who are having sex with lots of guys”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 21:00
Even without strict rules, most human relationships remain largely exclusive pair bonds.
“when the guardrails are off and there are no strict rules, you tend to find that most relationships are pair bonds and largely exclusive pair bonds”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 31:46
Women are more likely than men to leave partners who lose employment or earning capacity.
“women are more likely than men to leave a guy who is unemployed who becomes unemployed or fails to earn a decent living”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 1:08:05
Resource constraints make sex differences in mate priorities more pronounced.
“if they had a smaller mate budget, which I think is probably more like most people's situation in life, no offense, if they had that sex differences became more pronounced”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 1:21:37
Minimizing sex differences can obscure sex-specific medical and psychological problems.
“Another one, if you minimize sex differences, is that you might fail to notice physical problems and psychological problems that present differently in one sex than the other”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 1:48:50
Heart-attack symptoms differ by sex, with male symptoms better recognized.
“The symptoms are different for men and women, and the male symptoms are better known”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 1:49:05
Worldwide folktales emphasize women’s appearance and men’s resources and status in mate choice.
“if you look at folktales and fairy stories from right across the world, different world regions, you do find very consistently that people put more importance on women's appearance than they do on men's and more importance on men's resources and status than they do in women's”
Open the episode · The Biggest Myths About Dating (debunked) - #1133Listen at 2:03:16
Sex-differences science has disproved claims of women’s intellectual inferiority.
“I think that really the science of sex differences has disproved those kind of ideas.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 1:30
People should be allowed to follow or reject traditional gender roles.
“let people be themselves”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 4:44
Evolutionary origins do not determine whether traits are morally good or bad.
“The fact that something has evolutionary origin doesn't necessarily mean that it's good. It doesn't necessarily mean it's bad either.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 4:56
Most psychological sex differences are modest, with substantial within-sex variation and overlap.
“most of the gaps are not huge, most of the psychological sex differences are not huge, that there's a huge amount of variation within both sexes, tons of overlap between the sexes”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 5:56
Biological sex is defined by the size of gametes produced.
“sex is defined in terms of gamete size”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 8:09
Selection drives initially equal gametes toward differentiated smaller and larger gametes.
“when you have same size gametes, this selection for any trait that will increase the chances of being one of the gamete, of producing gametes that are going to produce offspring that survive”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 10:05
Sex is binary in species producing sperm or eggs, despite substantial within-sex variation.
“there is a sex binary”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 11:47
Sex differences in aggression and risk-taking appear very early in childhood.
“The aggression sex difference and the risk taking sex difference, both of those appear basically as soon as kids are mature enough that they can move around the place and are capable of risk taking, capable of aggressing, you get that sex difference like immediately.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 14:55
Career-interest sex differences have persisted across the twentieth century.
“sex differences in career preferences as well, or career related interests. They were evident from the early 1900s when people first started measuring them and then they just stayed the same.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 18:12
Shared childhood environments often add little adult personality similarity among identical twins.
“By adulthood though, they're often not much more similar at all, and in some cases no more similar than they would be if they had grown up apart.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 21:13
Some sex differences are larger in more gender-equal societies.
“in more gender equal societies, societies that are less strict in terms of their gender roles and societies that are less patriarchal, you actually find larger sex differences, often rather than smaller ones.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 22:49
Most men are primarily attracted to women, while most women are primarily attracted to men.
“The vast majority of men are primarily attracted to women. The vast majority of women primarily attracted to men.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 28:29
Men score higher than women on average in sociosexuality.
“men on average score higher. However you measure that trait. They score higher than women on that trait.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 29:31
Higher prenatal testosterone is associated with later aggression, risk-taking, and reduced parental inclination.
“higher levels of testosterone in the womb, for instance, are associated with high levels of aggression, later, high levels of risk taking, lower levels of parental inclinations and so on.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 31:31
Prenatal testosterone exposure in females is associated with more male-typical traits.
“women who, when they're in the womb are exposed to very, very high levels of prenatal testosterone due to having a condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia, or cah. They as girls and then as women, they exhibit a lot of male typical traits.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 31:54
Many key sex differences appear across all or most cultures.
“most of the key sex differences that we've been discussing so far, they are found either in every culture or in the vast majority.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 32:47
Greater female parental investment lowers females’ maximum potential number of offspring.
“the females, on the other hand, they invest a lot in each offspring. That lowers the ceiling for the number of offspring they can produce.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 40:35
Humans resemble birds more than mammals in pair bonding and biparental care.
“in our primary reproductive behavior, humans are more like the average bird than like the average mammal.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 56:07
Human males have greater reproductive variance than females, but less than most mammals.
“Men do have and have always had greater reproductive variance than women, but it's relatively low compared to most mammals.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 57:33
Men place more weight on youthfulness because female fertility declines through menopause.
“men place a greater weight on those traits because of menopause, basically.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 1:03:42
Women place more weight than men on resources and status in long-term mates.
“Women, on the other hand, tend to put more weight on resources and status and a long term mate than men do.”
Open the episode · The Uncomfortable Science Of Sex Differences - Steve Stewart-Williams - #1120Listen at 1:15:28
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