Why isn’t There More Incel Violence?

Costello, William; Buss, David M.

doi:10.1007/s40750-023-00220-3

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

2023

DOI: 10.1007/s40750-023-00220-3

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Why isn’t There More Incel Violence?

William Costello

David M. Buss

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“…In the past decade, involuntary celibate (incels) men gained public notoriety after the terrorist attacks of a few extremists (Costello & Buss, 2023;Tietjen & Tirkkonen, 2023). Scholars are making sense of the incel phenomenon (e.g., Baselic, 2022;Blake & Brooks, 2023;Brooks, Mads Larsen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9234-0453 For the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article, the authors declare that financial support was received from the Norway Grants 2014-2021 under Project Contract 2019/34/H/HS6/00597 ("Grieg" Project).…”

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“…In the past decade, involuntary celibate (incels) men gained public notoriety after the terrorist attacks of a few extremists (Costello & Buss, 2023; Tietjen & Tirkkonen, 2023). Scholars are making sense of the incel phenomenon (e.g., Baselic, 2022; Blake & Brooks, 2023; Brooks, Russo-Batterham, et al, 2022; Costello et al, 2022, 2023; Hoffman et al, 2020; Räsänen, 2023; Sparks et al, 2022, 2024)—for instance, through explaining why, when men’s and women’s evolved mate preferences play out in the modern West, the lowest-value men become excluded from mating.…”

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Enough with the incels! A literary cry for help from female insings (involuntary single).

Larsen,

Kennair

2024

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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Modern mating markets relegate a growing number of men to being incels (involuntary celibate). Increasing attention befalls another group struggling in the same markets: female insings (involuntary single). In the partly autobiographical novel, Half of Malmö Consists of Guys Who Dumped Me (2021), Amanda Romare dramatizes how urban dating and technologies like Tinder exploit women's evolved mate preferences in a manner that drives addiction and dysfunction. Many women have practically unlimited access to serial dating and short-term sex with highly attractive men, but such experiences can leave women less able to calibrate their mating strategies, thus making it harder to acquire a long-term partner. Romare argues that incels get too much attention, as our culture blinds us to the plight of lonely women. To investigate the insing phenomenon, we apply sexual strategies theory, sexual conflict theory, and other frameworks from evolutionary psychology. Mismatch, conflicting desires, and exploitative technologies make many women prioritize mate qualities that misalign with their pair-bonding ambitions. Juxtaposing Romare's novel with the TV series Sigurd Can't Get Laid (2020-2022) aids us in comparing insings to incels. Our analysis illustrates how both groups fall victim to our evolved mate preferences. Communities that develop a better understanding of these preferences could improve intersexual communication, which might help them find more productive ways to mate. Public Significance StatementOur two fictional case studies illuminate why an alarming number of youths are opting out of both short-and long-term mating. High singledom and sexual inactivity may contribute to our era's impending demographic collapse, which threatens social stability and human prospering. Analyzing fictional portrayals of dating dysfunction through the lens of evolutionary psychology could generate insights that help individuals and communities progress past our current malaise.

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“…In the past decade, involuntary celibate (incels) men gained public notoriety after the terrorist attacks of a few extremists (Costello & Buss, 2023; Tietjen & Tirkkonen, 2023). Scholars are making sense of the incel phenomenon (e.g., Baselic, 2022; Blake & Brooks, 2023; Brooks, Russo-Batterham, et al, 2022; Costello et al, 2022, 2023; Hoffman et al, 2020; Räsänen, 2023; Sparks et al, 2022, 2024)—for instance, through explaining why, when men’s and women’s evolved mate preferences play out in the modern West, the lowest-value men become excluded from mating.…”

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Enough with the incels! A literary cry for help from female insings (involuntary single).

Larsen,

Kennair

2024

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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How stable is student teachers’ emotional exhaustion? Disentangling different components of stability and change using the STARTS model.

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Evaluating Competing Hypotheses in Incel Research

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2023

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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Why isn’t There More Incel Violence?

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Enough with the incels! A literary cry for help from female insings (involuntary single).

Enough with the incels! A literary cry for help from female insings (involuntary single).

How stable is student teachers’ emotional exhaustion? Disentangling different components of stability and change using the STARTS model.

Evaluating Competing Hypotheses in Incel Research

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