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Welcome to Black Pill Science

A subreddit dedicated to dissecting and discussing human social and sexual behavior. Why does this exist?

Preconscious biases and preferences towards an array of traits mediate inter-group social conflict, intra-group low-status of an individual among peers, and access to mating opportunities. These biases thus structure the interpersonal experiences for a given individual. It is popularly claimed that some of the more immutable traits, such as facial physical attractiveness, height and visually discernible race/ethnicity, play a comparatively minor role in animating social and sexual exclusion. The purpose of this subreddit is to bring this claim's veracity under methodical scrutiny.


Peer-reviewed science is the primary aim of this subreddit. Articles of greatest interest to this sub are those which help clarify the role of lookism (i.e., the sum biases towards one's physical appearance) in explaining and predicting various sexual and social outcomes. Non-peer reviewed articles, questions or general discussion topics may be better suited for s/AskBlackPillScience.


Full-text articles may be acquired via unpaywall.org or sci-hub.


Submission Rules

  1. Links to published peer-reviewed research preferred
  2. No summaries of summaries, re-hosted press releases, or reposts
  3. No sensationalized or misleading titles
  4. No Low-Quality evidence. Anecdotal personal testimonials and similarly low effort/low quality limited observations, dubious speculation or questionable scholarship may be subject to removal at moderator's discretion.

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  4. Repeat or flagrant offenders will be banned

Glossary

Pill Theories of Sexual Attraction: overarching ideas regarding the pattern of mate preferences of heterosexual women in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) societies.

Blackpill Theory of Sexual Attraction: the idea that mate preferences in WEIRD societies are primarily guided by lookism, tribalism and, for heterosexual women, heightism. This is generally paired with the recognition that, for some individuals, the relationship between the amount of goal-directed effort expended in order to attract and court preferred mates (either by oft-touted self-help methods or by "one weird trick" courtship techniques) and one's success rate may be so poorly correlated that, for these individuals, such narrowly targeted effort is naive at best.

Pill Theory Lookism Aware? Considers Lookism Salient? Locus of Control
Blue Variable No Internal
Red Yes Variable Internal
Black Yes Yes External

Miscellaneous:

  • Cronbach's α for inter-rater reliability: lowerbound estimate of the reliability of a psychometric test. Relevance to looks ratings explained here.
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Sub will be temporarily at restricted settings until I can archive r/BlackPillScience.

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A compilation on personality

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21% of female subjects (N = 71) admitted they ended a relationship because, among other reasons, the penis size was too small (Prause et al., 2015)

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How men in Spain were almost completely wiped out between 4,500 and 4,000 years ago: Mass migration from Russia transformed the Iberian peninsula during the Bronze Age

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The Case For An Older Woman. okcupid trying to promote dating old women.. lots of data

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Last night I heard my husband tell off one of his employees through the phone and it turned me on so bad that I'm ashamed of myself.

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Victims of workplace mistreatment may also be seen as bullies themselves, even if they've never engaged in such behavior, and despite exemplary performance. Bullies, on the other hand, may be given a pass if they are liked by their supervisor, finds a new study about bias toward victim blaming.

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Should we guys fake personalities?

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Is there a study showing that females have an easier time platonically socializing with a male who they know is already taken?

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What science has to say about changes in the SMP for women (what RP calls “The Wall”)

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Testosterone levels found to rise in women in dominant role regardless of behavior

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from medicalxpress.com

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The 10% most antisocial men father 27% of the children (Jaffee et al. 2003)

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Gang members had more sex partners than other men from the same neighborhood. Gang leaders had by far the most sex partners. (Palmer & Tilley, 1995)

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Women’s Existential Fear

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80/20 confirmed by tinder again

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Does size truly matter?

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Study: Mindfulness found to be better predictor of Attractiveness than Physical Appearance

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from sciencedirect.com

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Testosterone levels correlate with the number of children in human males, but the direction of the relationship depends on paternal education

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The reason why many of the studies posted on here are largely BS .

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How does asexuality affect lifetime income/education level/criminality? Any research on that?

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"Women on the Pill Choose Less Manly Men"

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randomly saw these animal mating habits from a google search of something completely unrelated

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Bullying behavior predicts an increase in sexual opportunities even when accounting for age, sex, and self-reports of attractiveness, likeability, and peer victimization

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It’s not just you: New data shows more than half of young people in America don’t have a romantic partner

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More Millennials Are Getting Prenups Than Previous Generations

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Human perception of fighting ability: facial cues predict winners and losers in mixed martial arts fights

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Attractive businesswomen are considered less trustworthy, less truthful and more worthy of being fired than less attractive women, finds a new study (total n=1,202). This “femme fatale effect” taps into more primal feelings of sexual insecurity, jealousy and fear among both men and women.

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Do we have the answers to these questions?

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Are there studies about the correlation between beauty and fighting success/strength?

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Does amygdalotomy make men more alpha?

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Any way to counter the current quackery that is mainstream psychology? do we need academic achievements?

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from self.BlackPillScience

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Children are hitting puberty earlier than ever, specially girls and black children

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from health.usnews.com

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Women judge and value men based on physical attractiveness to the same degree as men do with women. Men's most important trait by far to be liked by women is his physical attractiveness

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from psycnet.apa.org

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What's the literature on sexual partner count and divorce? What covariates are accounted for.

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Personality Matters? Big Five Traits Related to Short-Term Mating: From Personality to Promiscuity across 46 Nations

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from journals.sagepub.com

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so much explained about the current human situation in one chart. just replace food availability with money and look at the stagnation and decline of wages for the bottom 80% of men plus the increase for women. And feminism as power coalition forming.

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Study: Be relaxed. Women prefer "chill" guys.

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Playing Hard to Get Is Effective, According to Psych Researchers

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from tonic.vice.com

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Tinder Users Have Low Sexual Disgust Sensitivity, Study Finds

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from inquisitr.com

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Here’s how much the average single American spends on their dating life

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from washingtonpost.com

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Can The Good Guys Ever Win in the War of the Sexes?

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from psychologytoday.com

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Does anybody have a link to this full study?

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from self.BlackPillScience

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Regarding Mewing (Facial Morphology

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Where does the 6ft height minimum requirement come from?

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No evidence that women using oral contraceptives have weaker preferences for masculine characteristics in men's faces (Jones et al. 2017) [also evidence against AF/BB/dual mating strategy]

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Lesbian and bisexual women more at risk for obesity, study finds

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To Those Who Wait

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Physical Attractiveness Truth

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"We conclude that a minimum level of physical attractiveness is a necessity for both women and their mothers and that when women and their parents state that other traits are more important than physical attractiveness, they assume potential mates meet a minimally acceptable standard of physical att

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Female copulatory orgasm and male partner’s attractiveness to his partner and other women | Yael Sela and Todd K Shackelford

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I've just created a blog on the matter (in French)

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Do Single Women Seek Attached Men?

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com

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Tinder: Swiping Self Esteem

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Benefits of Hooking Up: Self-Reports from First-Year College Women

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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To Hook Up or Date: Which Gender Benefits?

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from link.springer.com

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Redpill on r/all. These fuckers need tren!

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from sltrib.com

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Sex Frequency for 18 - 29 year olds

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Male sexlessness on the rise

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from washingtonpost.com

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Attraction Inequality

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from quillette.com

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Men have Lower Standards

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Average height in North America

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The new How Couples Meet and Stay Together dataset also confirms the incel trend

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from i.imgur.com

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Clearing up the virginity graph for brainlets. EVERYONE, GTFIH

submitted 3 years ago by FailedSpecies from self.BlackPillScience

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In the 1600s age of first marriage reached 27 years old. A good place and time to look for more clues.

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Women with greater body mass than expected for their height show a stronger preference for bigger penises than other women (although all women prefer bigger penises, even if really big)

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“We further found that the more sexual partners a woman had had before marriage, the less happy she reported her marriage to be.”

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40 percent of women surveyed said they had an orgasm during their last hookup, while closer to 75 percent reported having an orgasm the last time they had sex in a committed relationship.

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Virginity And Marriage: Study Shows The Later You Have Sex, The Better Your Relationships Are

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Pretty Waitresses Earn Bigger Tips, From Women

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Studies that show that men have a wider range of what they deem as attractive?

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The Tinder algorithm, explained

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Do Contraceptive Pills Affect Attraction?

submitted 3 years ago by [deleted] from psychologytoday.com

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Men show a high level of arousal concordance, women do not

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Cues of upper body strength account for 70% of the variance in men's bodily attractiveness (Sell et al. 2017)

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Researcher Jennifer Walsh and her team looked at the drinking patterns of three hundred college women and found that of those who had hookups with a random stranger, 89 percent involved drinking, and a notable 63 percent involved four or more drinks.

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That Washington Post published research indirectly confirms OkCupid research and vice versa:

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NPR made a soundtrack to Black Pill Comics

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Testosterone increases perceived dominance but not attractiveness in human males.

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Testosterone is associated with mating success but not attractiveness or masculinity in human males

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Virgins make up 12.3 percent of females and 14.3 percent of males aged 20 to 24. That number drops below 5 percent for both male and female virgins aged 25 to 29 and goes as low as 0.3 percent for virgins aged 40 to 44.

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Testosterone increased leading up to skydiving and was related to greater cortisol reactivity and higher heart rate, finds a new study. “Testosterone has gotten a bad reputation, but it isn’t about aggression or being a jerk. Testosterone helps to motivate us to achieve goals and rewards.”

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Are the ok cupids statistics a reliable way to tell which man woman go for?

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A New Study Blows Up Old Ideas About Girls and Boys

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babies prefer attractive people over unattractive ones, and are more likely to trust them.

submitted 3 years ago by [deleted] from newscientist.com

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Blackpills for Asian males compilation: Facial hair and physical dominance

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Humanity Has More Mothers Than Fathers, DNA Reveals

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An Interesting Elaboration on Aging - Male Peak 26-36 vs Female Peak 18-24

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Marriage in America is increasingly the province of the college-educated woman

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A single personality trait is the foundation for almost all mental illness: study

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Female copying increases the variance in male mating success.

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Who attains social status? Effects of personality and physical attractiveness in social groups.

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Have you incorporated any Black Pill research into your life?

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Who exactly is the top 20%?

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Men with more masculine faces are more likely to be unfaithful

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Bare-faced cheat: Women 'better at hiding infidelity'

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Just like adults, children by the age of 5 make rapid and consistent character judgements of others based on facial features, such as the tilt of the mouth or the distance between the eyes. Those facial features also shape how children behave toward others, according to research

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Paternal discrepancy (PD) occurs when a child is identified as being biologically fathered by someone other than the man who believes he is the father. Rates vary between studies from 0.8% to 30%

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Extroverted people are more likely to be goodlooking while introverted people are more likely to be ugly.

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Giant compilation of BlackPill Studies

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The Economics of Hypergamy

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Men hold more positive attitudes towards their female ex-partners than women do towards their male ex-partners (total N = 876) (Athenstaedt et al. 2019)

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