13 Facts About David Buss

David Buss is considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology.

David Buss is the author of a number of publications and books, including The Evolution of Desire, The Dangerous Passion, and The Murderer Next Door, which introduces a new theory of homicide from an evolutionary perspective.

David Buss is the author of Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, whose fourth edition was released in 2011.

In 2005, David Buss edited a reference volume, The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology.

David Buss is involved with extensive cross-cultural research collaborations and lectures within the US.

One element of David Buss' research involves studying the differences in mate selection between short-term and long-term mating strategies.

David Buss posits that men and women have faced different adaptive challenges throughout human history, which shape behavioral difference in males and females today.

David Buss found that men place very high importance on youth.

David Buss hypothesized that women find emotional infidelity more threatening because it could lead to the woman losing the resources she had gained from that mate and having to raise children on her own.

David Buss has conducted numerous studies comparing the mate preferences of individuals by factors such as gender, time, parents vs offspring, and type of relationship.

David Buss has conducted a large study investigating universal mate preferences.

David Buss' research explores the differing ways in which men and women cope with intersexual deception.

David Buss found that anger and distress are the two primary emotions that have evolved as solutions to strategic interference between men and women.