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SUMMARY:Sex\, money\, and the mating market: How big data helps us underst
 and sexual politics - Khandis Blake\, University of Melbourne
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CONTACT:Kieron Ivy Turk
DESCRIPTION:Why are sex differences the result of biological and economic 
 forces?  How do mating market conditions affect gendered violence? Why are
  so many people – including women –concerned with regulating female se
 xuality? For too long\, our approach to gendered outcomes has quarantined 
 the biological from the sociocultural\, as if one has nothing to do with t
 he other. Yet a close understanding of the drivers of male-male aggression
 \, intimate partner violence\, and female beauty practices shows that the 
 biological and sociocultural often intertwine. In this talk I review a gro
 wing body of my research that uses big data to implicate mating market con
 ditions in gendered outcomes. Using data from 113 nations\, I will explain
  how income inequality affects the local female mating ecology and thus in
 centivizes intrasexual competition and status-seeking. I will then show th
 at by disadvantaging male mate competition\, the operational sex ratio and
  manufacturing shocks in the USA drive troubling online sub-cultures linke
 d to gendered violence (i.e.\, “inCel” ideology). By linking online be
 haviors with offline violence\, I show how social media can be used as a b
 arometer to identify prospective hotspots of crime. By incorporating insig
 hts from behavioral ecology\, social psychology\, economics\, and internat
 ional security\, I provide a functional account of gender conflict\, highl
 ighting the value of integrating competing disciplinary perspectives to un
 derstand these phenomena. With it I offer a new approach to understanding 
 how and why sexual conflict manifests\, and how attitudes toward gender ar
 e related to potential fitness payoffs.\n\n \n\nBIO\n\nDr Blake is an expe
 rt on sexual politics who combines insights from evolutionary biology\, ps
 ychology and big data to understand conflict and competition among people.
  Her research addresses big issues that profoundly influence wellbeing\, i
 ncluding personal agency and empowerment\, intimate partner violence and t
 he varied ways in which people seek and enact status. Dr Blake convenes Tw
 itPlat\, a database of 6 billion geolocated Twitter posts spanning 9 years
 \, and the Daily Cycle Diary\, an online platform that helps women to unde
 rstand how their menstrual cycle affects their psychology. She is the hold
 er of seven international and eight domestic awards for research excellenc
 e\, and has featured her work at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas\, Melbour
 ne Writer’s Festival\, Melbourne International Film Festival\, in The Ag
 e\, The Herald Sun\, The Sydney Morning Herald\, and on ABC News and The P
 roject. She is an ARC DECRA Fellow and a lecturer at the Melbourne School 
 of Psychological Science at the University of Melbourne.
LOCATION:Webinar - link on talks.cam page from Monday afternoon
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