Everything You Need to Know About Incels | William Costello

In this episode, I spoke with William Costello. William recently wrote one of the first academic papers discussing the psychology of incels. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin where he’s a member of Dr. David Buss's Evolutionary Psychology lab. Together we discussed hypergamy, the characteristics of the average incel, the psychology of incels, causes for the increase in female infidelity, the black pill worldview, and much more. Thanks for tuning in. If you enjoyed this conversation, be sure to subscribe!

Chapters

1. 0:00Intro
2. 4:00Defining What an Incel Is
3. 9:04In the Context of Culture
4. 13:07The Scope of Incels
5. 17:33The Rarity of Female Incels
6. 21:42The Rise of the Sheconomy
7. 24:00Differences in Sexual Psychology Between Men and Women
8. 27:57Characteristics of the Average Incel
9. 31:37One Commonality: The Black Pill Worldview
10. 32:32Overestimating the Number of Incels
11. 34:22Incel Characteristics Continued
12. 37:51King of the Incels: Lifting Up Despondent Young Men
13. 42:35An Overlap with the Manosphere
14. 46:08Affects of Birth Control on Sexual Selection
15. 48:55Andrew Tate
16. 50:23What Socially Enforced Monogamy Means
17. 52:58Pickup Artists in the Mating Market
18. 55:30Mutual Mate Choice in Men and Women
19. 57:45The Decline of Hypergamy
20. 59:46Causes for the Increase in Female Infidelity
21. 1:00:48Causes for the Increase in Intra-Relationship Violence
22. 1:03:36Creating New Status Domains
23. 1:05:29Outro