The strategies for finding a mate must have been highly optimized by evolution, and that likely included making us hesitant to deviate from evolved strategies. Perhaps in the ancestral environment, dating advice tended to be unhelpful, if not an outright sabotage from the competition, and so we evolved a strong resistance to paying attention to certain kinds of dating advice?
Perhaps in the ancestral environment, dating advice tended to be unhelpful, if not an outright sabotage from the competition
Perhaps this is true for most dating advice today, too.
Yes, there is also some good advice out there, but the problem is that if you can distinguish good advice from bad advice, you probably don’t need the advice anymore.
The strategies for finding a mate must have been highly optimized by evolution, and that likely included making us hesitant to deviate from evolved strategies. Perhaps in the ancestral environment, dating advice tended to be unhelpful, if not an outright sabotage from the competition, and so we evolved a strong resistance to paying attention to certain kinds of dating advice?
Perhaps this is true for most dating advice today, too.
Yes, there is also some good advice out there, but the problem is that if you can distinguish good advice from bad advice, you probably don’t need the advice anymore.
In the ancestral environment, there wouldn’t be such a thing as dating. Do chimpanzees “date”?