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Sex, Relationships, Technology and IQ
In today’s article, I will be discussing the effects of technology, how it impacts our sexuality, the importance of communication, honesty and relationships, and how online cultures and the advent and spread of psychological thinking are also affecting our society as a whole.
With the advancement of social media in the 2000s, human beings have altered how people communicate, affecting how we conduct our relationships.
For instance, it’s common for people, when being bored on dates, to use dating on social media to look for new dating opportunities.
We live in a world, particularly in a highly advanced and industrialised global North, which refers to developed economies, that will all have the opportunities or, more accurately, the opportunities to access hundreds of thousands of potential mates.
The Tragedy of the Human Condition
Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago.
They developed a capacity for language about 50,000 years ago.
The first modern humans began moving outside Africa about 70,000–100,000 years ago.
This concerns evolutionary psychology, which studies human behaviour and why humans…