"Experimental Report on Love and Sex" - Experimental Report on Popular Science Reading for Adults

My journey of popular science reading started from Little People's Books. In a book whose name I can no longer remember, a young man travels to the underwater world and encounters many twists and turns with shrimps, soldiers and crabs. The book takes the form of the protagonist's travel explanation, which is a bit like Dante and Virgil in "The Divine Comedy", but it embeds knowledge in a simple story and narrates it eloquently.

But just when I was able to read text books very well, my popular science reading experienced a small lull. Now that I think about it, for a long time, we used to regard science popularization as part of children's education. When my reading taste just entered adulthood, I felt a little embarrassed about reading. At that time, almost the only good popular science books for adults were the famous First Push series including A Brief History of Time. From another perspective, it seems that popular science cannot be used as popular reading. We can't find many suitable books that, on the one hand, provide a bit of intellectual pleasure and, on the other hand, are less exhausting to read.

To this day, in a large bookstore in Haidian, Beijing, there are already two rows of bookcases marked popular science, but the categories are still very similar to those in middle school - some popular science books for young readers. , and classic popular science, the latter likes to talk to you about relativity and quantum mechanics, but pays little attention to why we shop irrationally and why we need to reduce carbon emissions.

The emergence of the Science Squirrel Club gives part of the answer. In the past, many domestic science popularization writers have been exploring and writing many fresh and lively science popularization articles. Their rapid response to the latest research results and their sensitivity to the news of popular science events are all different from the science popularization in the past. The Science Squirrel Society has brought together a group of such authors and has published many high-quality popular science books in the past three years. The latest book "Experimental Report on Love and Sex" is a very representative one.

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Scientists Come to Sex and the City

The author of this book, Xiaozhuang, reminded me before giving me the manuscript that reading this book may irritate you; and another scientist Xia Ruze, a member of the Squirrel Society, talked to me about her thoughts after watching the film, saying that it was a scientific version of "Sex and the City."

Sex and the City? Highly educated and high-income women in big cities talk about "high-end topics" and treat love and sex in a more proactive way than traditional habits. They are the real protagonists in the story and never need men's rescue. Even men's support is available. Dispensable. As a male reader, this kind of story doesn't offend me, but it's not my favorite type either. Wait, popular science? story? Isn’t science popularization among adults driven by hard data?

Fortunately, the smooth reading experience quickly drew me into the book. The structure of the book reminded me of the stories I read as a child, but the stories are for adults. At the beginning, the author introduces four somewhat symbolic female characters: Dunaway, who graduated from a prestigious school and serves as a website executive. Many scientific contents in this book are told through her; M, a returnee doctor, advertising elite Mo Fei, celebrity agent People Diane. Rather than saying that the author wants to flaunt certain values, it is better to say that this is some kind of projection of modern urban women - they have passed their youthful years, are over 28 years old, are financially independent, and have received a good education. This book does not exaggerate a high-end lifestyle, but shows a rational person in modern society.

The emotional problems experienced by an urban woman are modern, but they are also eternal problems for mankind. The establishment of an intimate relationship between the sexes, the game between love and sex, waiting and hope, disappointment and pain, these contents described in classic love stories since ancient times have been performed again and again. However, this time, the scientific principles hidden behind it were revealed by the sharp yet tender heroine Dunaway. This time, it's love's turn to be deenchanted.

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Evolutionary Theory and Cognitive Science

"Experimental Report on Love and Sex" is divided into four parts: "Relationship Theory", "If Love", "Sexual Analysis" and "General emotion". Just look at the title and you will know that what is said about love and sex is true. The theme of the whole book is exactly the issue of gender. Readers don’t have to worry about suddenly jumping to polymer chemistry after reading an article about female mate selection. And if I were asked to summarize the scientific context of this book, I think the key words are evolution and cognition.

The theory of evolution, since Darwin, has gone through more than a hundred years, and a large amount of research has continued to enrich this beautiful theory. Chinese people's understanding of the theory of evolution is often accompanied by many fallacies. Although the content of this book does not focus on the theory of evolution, it cites a large number of relevant research conclusions. You know, sexual selection was a topic that Darwin focused on from the beginning of his research. A wide range of behaviors between both sexes may have evolutionary significance.

Isn’t it? Why do men like young girls while women prefer men with certain financial strength? Because your genes need to be continued, and young girls are fertile, rich men can give their children the best resources. Why do some people care so much about the body odor of the opposite sex? Because certain body odors may indicate his or her immune characteristics, and the complementation of your immune characteristics is likely to help your offspring gain good immunity.

Cognitive science is another keyword in this book. This science was born not long ago. It further integrates past research results in psychology, sociology, neuroscience and other fields to systematically study human perception, memory, thinking, and even complex social behaviors.

What can it tell us? The number of people speed dating greatly affects the quality of the date, because our brains cannot process the information of so many people and can only simply and crudely analyze the appearance of the opposite sex, and this is not a good indicator of the self-sufficiency of the opposite sex. Some people are always on the defensive in romantic relationships, perhaps because of issues with their attachment style that may have manifested themselves in their early relationship with their mother.

Now, cognitive science meets evolutionary theory, integrating research on humans under a theoretical framework. The ability of women during ovulation to distinguish the appearance of the opposite sex is better than usual. The fact that humorous men are more popular may be related to the high testosterone levels in their bodies. Certain cognitive abilities effectively adapt to the environment and are preserved in harsh competition.

The fun of reading this book is to take a look at the gender phenomena that we usually take for granted. In fact, there are deep-seated mechanisms behind them. And a little intrigue between men and women may also have important evolutionary significance. Don’t worry, this book is not meant to make you disappointed in love. If your view of love is based on girl romance novels, then this book will give you a dose of antidote before it bursts; If you are a person with mature views on gender, this book can also revise your views and provide you with some tested support for your views.

In particular, although there are some novelistic writing techniques, the article still shows the scientific training the author has received, and the cited research results have clear expressions of the researcher, publication time and content. Unfortunately, similar to many domestic popular science books, these studies do not provide the source of the paper in reference format. Although this requirement seems a bit harsh for a book published as a collection of newspaper columns, it cannot but be said to be a small regret.

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Why men should read this book

The author told me that this book might irritate me, and sure enough, when I read the article "I'm Sorry, I'm Not Responsible for Praising You" I felt very annoyed. A paper published by psychologists at the University of Kent in the journal Gender Roles shows that narcissistic people are less friendly to heterosexual women and exhibit more macho tendencies. Is the author implying that I am a narcissistic man who gets angry easily? Just kidding, what would male readers of this book think of this?

I have been immersed in the field of cognitive science for several years. I am familiar with the experimental methods mentioned in the book, and I know some of the conclusions by heart. But this book has a distinct feminist perspective. Whether this perspective is the author's attitude or a communication strategy, it may make some men feel uncomfortable.

From this perspective, I suggest that men should read this book. The book mentions that the concept of mate selection has undergone earth-shaking changes in the past few decades, and women's intelligence is becoming more and more important in men's mate selection conditions. This is probably one of the great benefits of modern society. Some people really start to pay attention to spiritual matching. When men look for ways to appear more masculine, don’t forget that it’s just your genes at work, and more hormones are making you engage in more risky behaviors. On the one hand, these risky behaviors greatly attract women's attention, but on the other hand, they also greatly increase the probability of men being injured or killed. From this perspective, we have too many similarities with our ancestors millions of years ago. Reading this book will allow many male friends to see the world from a different perspective and see what is behind the luxury car you worked so hard to acquire and the gentlemanly demeanor you worked so hard to learn.

For female readers, no such persuasion is needed. I hope you can find a sense of involvement in the characters in the book and become a positive and rational independent individual in your love life. Know yourself and know men, they are basically a different animal.

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We need a variety of popular science

How to define "Experimental Report on Love and Sex"? Pillow books or even toilet books, because they are short, you can just open a page and start reading; subway books, because the content is suitable for boring urban traffic time; adult books, because although the writing is subtle, the content is real The topic of gender; leisure reading, the book is not thick, and it is not intended to discuss the national economy and people's livelihood with you. There are no formulas and theorems, and it does not talk about string theory or cosmology. It does not require background, just a little curiosity about life.

Yes, this is a popular science book produced by Guoke Reading, which satisfies the above needs very well. If popular science books in China mean that they are either immature or difficult, then this type of books is providing a new answer. The author does not intend to make you get close to "sacred science", but to talk to you about love, sex, and the truth behind these things. And readers don’t need to expect to learn knowledge, they can

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