online archive
1:00PM
AUG 27 2008
The case of beauty
From Evolutionary Psychology, Menelaos Apostolou (Warwick): Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mating: The Case of Beauty; David M. Buss (UT- Austin) and Todd K. Shackelford (FAU): Attractive Women Want it All: Good Genes, Economic Investment, Parenting Proclivities, and Emotional Commitment; and a review of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa. Krzysztof Koscinski (AMU): Facial attractiveness: General patterns of facial preferences. Una Gustafsson and Fredrik Bjorklund (Lund): Women Self-Stereotype with Feminine Stereotypical Traits Under Stereotype Threats. Betsey A. Stevenson and Justin Wolfers (Penn): Paradox of Declining Female Happiness. Daniel L. Chen (Harvard): Does Forbidding Sexual Harassment Exacerbate Gender Inequality? From Islamica, an interview with Samuel Huntington; a review of books on political Islam; and an article on the American Muslim community's "Obama" problem: How do you root for a candidate who doesn't want you to root for him? Jonathan Chait on the right's silly obsession with the Obama "cult". A review of Christianity and American Democracy by Hugh Heclo. A review of Muscular Christianity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds. A review of Nietzsche: A Guide for the Perplexed by R. Kevin Hill. More on Victor Stenger's God: The Failed Hypothesis.
