Pickup and Game: What Survived the Science and What Was Cope
Pickup and game culture made testable predictions about female mate selection for two decades before evolutionary psychology and neuroendocrinology caught up. Most of it was unfalsifiable cope wrapped in jargon. But three clusters survived empirical scrutiny: preselection and social proof cascades, dimorphic signaling through voice pitch and shoulder-to-waist ratio, and baseline androgen status affecting approach … Read more