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Ben Winegard

Researcher at Hillsdale College

Publications -  8
Citations -  102

Ben Winegard is an academic researcher from Hillsdale College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Value theory & Twin study. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications receiving 86 citations. Previous affiliations of Ben Winegard include Carroll College & University of Missouri.

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Eastwood's Brawn and Einstein's Brain: An Evolutionary Account of Dominance, Prestige, and Precarious Manhood:

TL;DR: Men whose manhood is threatened react with a variety of compensatory behavior as mentioned in this paper, which is a common phenomenon in psychology. But it is a precarious social status that requires effort to achieve.
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The influence of heritability, neuroticism, maternal warmth and media use on disordered eating behaviors: a prospective analysis of twins.

TL;DR: The results indicate that DEB is highly heritable and that personality variables may play an important role in the formation of DEB and suggests that it is important to control for genetic variables when analyzing risk factors for DEB.
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Dodging Darwin: Race, evolution, and the hereditarian hypothesis

TL;DR: The authors argue that population-based cognitive differences are congruent with our best understanding of the world because there are strong reasons to believe that different environments and niches selected for different physical and psychological traits, including general cognitive ability.
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One’s Better Half: Romantic Partners Function as Social Signals

TL;DR: This paper found that romantic partners function as hard-to-fake signals of status and men are concerned about signaling their status to both other men and to other women, and that men are more concerned about signalling the quality of their mate to other men than to women.
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The Status Competition Model of Cultural Production

TL;DR: The status competition model of cultural production as mentioned in this paper argues that cultural displays often, but not exclusively, signal the possession of important cultural competencies to others in a coalition and that cultural creators are recompensed with prestige, which they can use to secure mates or invest in their kin and lineage.