Macken Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4152261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Macken Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Macken |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7501-4693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A hundred and two just-so stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere
The manosphere is a collection of online antifeminist men’s groups whose ideologies often invoke Darwinian principles and evolutionary psychological research. In the present study, we reveal that the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or ‘just-so stories’, about men, women, and society. This is a unique phenomenon, where lay (i.e. non-expert) individuals creatively employ evolutionary reasoning to expla…
Why women cheat: Testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample
While scholars largely agree men's infidelity evolved by increasing offspring quantity, the evolutionary drivers of women's infidelity remain debated. The “good genes” (dual mating strategy) hypothesis posits infidelity allows women to pair the preferred genes of an affair partner with the preferred investment of their primary partner (Gangstad & Thornhill, 1998). The mate-switching hypothesis instead argues infidelity helps women obtain a new ma…
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Why women cheat: Testing evolutionary hypotheses for female infidelity in a multinational sample
While scholars largely agree men's infidelity evolved by increasing offspring quantity, the evolutionary drivers of women's infidelity remain debated. The “good genes” (dual mating strategy) hypothesis posits infidelity allows women to pair the preferred genes of an affair partner with the preferred investment of their primary partner (Gangstad & Thornhill, 1998). The mate-switching hypothesis instead argues infidelity helps women obtain a new ma…
A hundred and two just-so stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere
The manosphere is a collection of online antifeminist men’s groups whose ideologies often invoke Darwinian principles and evolutionary psychological research. In the present study, we reveal that the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or ‘just-so stories’, about men, women, and society. This is a unique phenomenon, where lay (i.e. non-expert) individuals creatively employ evolutionary reasoning to expla…
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (2 works) · Animal Behavior and Reproduction (1 works) · Attraction (1 works) · Attractiveness (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Cheating (1 works) · Developmental psychology (1 works) · Ecology (1 works) · Evolutionary psychology (1 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (1 works)