75| The Role of Intelligence in Mating and Relationships - Glenn Geher

In this episode Glenn Geher gives advice on:

- Glenn's perspective on his area of science in comparison to Geoffrey Miller's area of science (evolutionary psychology) (05:23)

- Factors of human relationships and issues of mating in understanding how evolution can help us understand relationships: Is it from a nature as opposed to a nurture perspective that is imbedded in us and cannot be changed? (06:10)

- Does intelligence play a role in attractiveness and mating outcomes or results, or success with dating, relationships, and sex? (11:20)

- Intra-sexual selection: how members of the same sex (according to Darwin) compete with each other for a member of the opposite sex (16:40)

- The realization that there is a lack of mating intelligence based on mating relevant biases (19:30)

- The aspect of uncertainty and if more intelligent women have a tendency to have less negative biases (e.g. commitment, anti-commitment) (24:00)

- Types of intelligence, how they relate to each other, and play into the mating intelligence role (26:24)

- Stereotypes of intelligence and observations in the dating market (30:55)

- Does IQ correlate with behaviors that lead to positive outcomes in terms of health, relationships, satisfaction, and happiness? (36:41)

- The differences in intelligence between men and women and how they affect the mating game (41:20)

- Evidence of interpersonal skills whereby relationships have been improved by also improving those skills (46:25)

- The type of intelligence that is important for a relationship (48:23)

- Does emotional intelligence relate to a person's reactiveness on an emotional level? (49:50)

- Emotional intelligence domination between partners (51:10)

- Recommendations for high quality advice in the area of dating, sex, and relationships (54:28)

- Top three recommendations to help men get a better relationship, dating, or mating life (55:36)

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