Summary: <p>This month, crime pays: we discover the link between criminal behaviour and reproduction, and find out why it makes sense to judge your criminal accomplices on their beauty. We also learn what a woman’s bank balance says about her attitude to promiscuity. </p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/PsychologyOfAttractiveness201407/PAP-2014-07.mp3">Download the MP3</a></p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jDpAo3C2j2U/U7qlttHxQSI/AAAAAAAABew/hGE0ngZaD_E/s2048-Ic42/corleone-family.jpg"><br> <p><i>New research shows that criminal offending might be part of an alternative reproductive strategy. That explains why the Godfather was the head of such a huge family, then.</i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b></p><p>Yao, S., Långström, N., Temrin, H., & Walum, H. (in press). Criminal offending as part of an alternative reproductive strategy: Investigating evolutionary hypotheses using Swedish total population data. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.06.007">Read summary</a></p><p>Shinada, M., & Yamagishi, T. (in press). Physical attractiveness and cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma game. <span style="font-style: italic;">Evolution and Human Behavior</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.06.003">Read summary</a></p><p>Price, M. E., Pound, N., & Scott, I. M. (in press). Female economic dependence and the morality of promiscuity. <span style="font-style: italic;">Archives of Sexual Behavior</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0320-4">Read summary</a></p><p></p>
