Everything You Need to Know About Incels | William Costello 159

This video by Mikhaila Peterson is about the psychology of incels, with a focus on the characteristics of the average incel, the black pill worldview, hypergamy, mutual mate choice, and socially enforced monogamy. William Costello, an academic researcher and part of Dr. David Buss's evolutionary psychology lab, is the guest on the episode. The video also touches on the topic of insults and their nature, as well as the role of evolutionary psychology in understanding the behavior of incels.

This video by Mikhaila Peterson was published on Sep 8, 2022.
Video length: 01:05:27.

In this video, Mikhaila Peterson interviews William Costello about the psychology of incels.

The video is titled "Everything You Need to Know About Incels | William Costello 159 - YouTube". William Costello is an academic researcher who has written the first academic paper discussing the psychology of incels. He is also part of Dr. David Buss's evolutionary psychology lab. The video discusses the characteristics of the average incel, the black pill worldview, hypergamy, mutual mate choice in men and women, socially enforced monogamy, and more.

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• The video is from Mikhaila Peterson's YouTube channel.
• The video is about the psychology of incels, with a focus on the characteristics of the average incel, the black pill worldview, hypergamy, mutual mate choice, and socially enforced monogamy.
• William Costello, an academic researcher and part of Dr. David Buss's evolutionary psychology lab, is the guest on the episode.
• The video touches on the topic of insults and their nature.
• The role of evolutionary psychology in understanding the behavior of incels is discussed.
• Incels are a group of young men who are unable to find sexual partners and are often resentful.
• The black pill worldview is a belief that women are not worth pursuing and that men should focus on their own success instead.
• Hypergamy is a concept that suggests that individuals believe they are entitled to a higher-status sexual partner.
• Mutual mate choice is a concept that suggests that both partners in a relationship have equal power and agency.

Everything You Need to Know About Incels | William Costello 159 - YouTube

Section 1: Introduction

• The video is from Mikhaila Peterson's YouTube channel.
• The video is about the psychology of incels, with a focus on the characteristics of the average incel, the black pill worldview, hypergamy, mutual mate choice, and socially enforced monogamy.
• William Costello, an academic researcher and part of Dr. David Buss's evolutionary psychology lab, is the guest on the episode.
• The video also touches on the topic of insults and their nature, as well as the role of evolutionary psychology in understanding the behavior of incels.

Section 2: Psychology of Incels

• A recent study of 21,000 women in 27 European countries found that women who were higher educated were earning more than their partners, and from an evolutionary psychology perspective, this is not good.
• The way that works is if you're a man with a higher status mate who's spending a lot of her time around other high status males while you're away from her, that gives you a cue that you might be inclined to lose her and you actually might welcome it.
• William Costello wrote the first academic paper discussing the psychology of incels and is incredibly well informed about the topic.
• In this episode, they discuss the characteristics of the average incel, the black pill worldview, hypergamy, mutual mate choice, and socially enforced monogamy.

Section 3: Insults and Evolutionary Psychology

• The video touches on the topic of insults and their nature.
• William Costello is part of Dr. David Buss's evolutionary psychology lab.
• The role of evolutionary psychology in understanding the behavior of incels is discussed.

Everything You Need to Know About Incels | William Costello 159 - YouTube

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What is an incel?

• Incels stands for involuntary celibate and is an online subculture primarily made up of men who are unable to form sexual or romantic relationships.
• A significant minority of incels are misogynistic and hostile online, but only a small percentage of them lash out in violent rage and cause harm to others.
• There have been only approximately 60 deaths worldwide that can be directly attributed to incel violence, despite it being often reported as a new terrorist threat in the media.
• Alec Minassian, who drove his van into a crowd of people in Toronto, is often held up as a poster boy for the insult movement in the media.
• The judge in the Alec Minassian case analyzed all the evidence and determined that he was piggybacking on the incel movement to ratchet up his own notoriety.

Incels and Evolutionary Psychology

• Mikhaila Peterson, the host of the video, is an evolutionary psychologist and researcher who studies the psychology of incels.
• She believes that the incel culture describes where our evolved map preferences meet our cultural psychology and advances.
• Her literature review found that almost no studies included primary responses from incels themselves, and all studies were based on analyzing the online misogyny or rhetoric of incels.
• She believes that analyzing the online misogyny is somewhat useful but that engaging with the community one-to-one or directly is necessary to form any kind of psychological opinion.
• She is also interested in incels because this demographic of young men traditionally in evolutionary psychology is often overlooked.

Incels and Misogyny

• A significant minority of incels are misogynistic and hostile online, but only a small percentage of them lash out in violent rage and cause harm to others.
• Eliot Roger, who wrote a 49-page manifesto talking about his desire for revenge, is a notorious example of an incel who went on to kill people.
• Alec Minassian, who drove his van into a crowd of people in Toronto, is often held up as a poster boy for the insult movement in the media.
• The judge in the Alec Minassian case analyzed all the evidence and determined that he was piggybacking on the incel movement to ratchet up his own notoriety.
• Mikhaila Peterson believes that analyzing the online misogyny is somewhat useful but that engaging with the community one-to-one or directly is necessary to form any kind of psychological opinion.

Incels and Violence

• There have been only approximately 60 deaths worldwide that can be directly attributed to incel violence, despite it being often reported as a new terrorist threat in the media.
• Eliot Roger, who wrote a 49-page manifesto talking about his desire for revenge, is a notorious example of an incel who went on to kill people.
• Alec Minassian, who drove his van into a crowd of people in Toronto, is often held up as a poster boy for the insult movement in the media.
• Mikhaila Peterson believes that analyzing the online misogyny is somewhat useful but that engaging with the community one-to-one or directly is necessary to form any kind of psychological opinion.

Young Male Syndrome

• Young male syndrome is a consistent cross-cultural and cross-historical finding.
• In any population with a surplus of unpartnered young men, they cause a lot of crime and disrupt society.
• Surplus population of young men usually have elevated status-seeking behaviors and risk-taking.
• Historically, institutions have been developed to deal with a surplus population of young men, such as sending them off on missions.
• Examples of such institutions include the Portuguese who went sailing to discover new worlds and Vikings who were more likely a surplus population of young men.

Incels and the Black Pill Worldview

• Incels are a group of young men who are unable to find sexual partners and are often resentful.
• The black pill worldview is a belief that women are not worth pursuing and that men should focus on their own success instead.
• Incels often hold hypergamous beliefs, meaning they believe that they are entitled to a higher-status sexual partner.
• Mutual mate choice is a concept that suggests that both partners in a relationship have equal power and agency.
• Socially enforced monogamy is a concept that suggests that society enforces a one-partner policy for individuals.

Insults and Evolutionary Psychology

• Insults are a common form of communication among incels and can be used to express resentment and anger.
• Evolutionary psychology can help explain the nature of insults and why they are used in certain contexts.
• Insults can be seen as a way for individuals to assert their dominance and establish their status within a group.
• The use of insults can also be a way for individuals to express their frustration and anger towards others.
• Understanding the role of evolutionary psychology in the use of insults can help individuals better navigate social situations.

The Surplus Population of Young Men

• Surplus population of young men can cause a lot of crime and disrupt society.
• Surplus population of young men usually have elevated status-seeking behaviors and risk-taking.
• Historically, institutions have been developed to deal with a surplus population of young men, such as sending them off on missions.
• Examples of such institutions include the Portuguese who went sailing to discover new worlds and Vikings who were more likely a surplus population of young men.
• The surplus population of young men can be seen as a symptom of a wider cultural crisis that hurts everybody, not just disenfranchised young men.

Section 1: Online Dating and Incels

• Online dating apps have made it easier for men to access women without incurring reputational costs.
• There is a cultural drive towards singlehood, with companies encouraging women to remain single.
• Single women earn more money and do better in their careers than single men.
• The gender pay gap is more accurately described as a "motherhood penalty," where women are punished for having children.
• Women in the UK earn just as much or more than men up to the age of 29, but the motherhood penalty kicks in after that.

Section 2: Feminism and the Traditional Wife

• Feminism prioritizes the male default of the CEO boardroom and the badass image.
• The gender pay gap was never revealed in its entirety, with women being punished for having children.
• Women in the UK earn just as much or more than men up to the age of 29, but the motherhood penalty kicks in after that.
• Women are suffering from sexlessness, but this is mostly male-focused.
• There is no such thing as a "femme cell" or a female in cell, as most women can get sex or relationships if they want.

Section 3: Cross-Sex Mind Reading and Incels

• Incels see a woman's ability to get something rather than nothing as better.
• For a woman, getting the sex or relationship that she doesn't want is worse than nothing.
• Women don't want to have sex with men they don't want or relationships they don't want.
• Women's interest is aimed hypergamously, with women tending to mate up in status hierarchies.
• Hypergamy is declining in recent years, but women's perceived difficulties in accessing the mate are not well-understood.

Section 4: The Mating Market and Incels

• Small minority of men that women are interested in create the rules of the mating market.
• Hypergamy, women's tendency to mate up in status hierarchies, is declining in recent years.
• Women's rapid socioeconomic success has made it easier for them to access mates.
• Authors of a study that showed hypergamy is in decline commented that they couldn't speak to women's perceived difficulties in accessing the mate.
• A recent study of 21,000 women found that women are not always happy about their mates.

The Psychology of Incels

• The average incel is a man who is highly educated and has a higher status mate.
• Incels may use costly retention strategies, such as inflicting intimate partner violence, to try to retain their partners.
• There is evidence that the rise of the "she economy" and the increasing number of single and childless women in the workforce is contributing to the problem of incels.
• The traditional stay-at-home mom role is often demeaned in mainstream society, and there is a need for incentives to encourage modernizing this role.
• Some women who do not end up in relationships may not have the same sexual urges as men, and the effect sizes of the differences between men and women in sexual psychology are some of the biggest in all of psychology.

Section 1: Evolutionary Psychology and Incels

• The evolutionary history of humans has shaped our psychological mechanisms.
• Incels are a group of men who are unable to attract women and feel a sense of entitlement to sex.
• The average incel has a limited amount of offspring compared to women.
• The biological difference between men and women is that women have a greater parental investment.
• There is no limit to the number of offspring a man can have, but he invests more in his offspring than women.

Section 2: Characteristics of the Average Incel

• The characteristics of the average incel are not violent or aggressive.
• The average incel has low levels of well-being and high levels of depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
• The average incel has low levels of satisfaction with life.
• The average incel has high levels of sociosexual desire, which is the desire for uncommitted sex.
• The average incel scores high on a new personality construct called the tendency for interpersonal victimhood.

Section 3: Insults and Incels

• Insults are a common theme in the incel community.
• Incels often feel that they are not recognized as having a legitimate grievance.
• Incels often feel that they are not seen as moral or virtuous.
• Incels often feel that they are not in control of their lives.
• Incels often feel that they are not deserving of sex or relationships.

Section 4: Evolutionary Psychology and Incels

• Evolutionary psychology can help explain the behavior of incels.
• Incels are a result of the evolutionary history of humans.
• Incels are a result of the biological difference between men and women.
• Incels are a result of the human male's investment in offspring.
• Incels are a result of the human female's greater parental investment.

Characteristics of Incels

• Incels may have a lack of empathy due to past hurt.
• They may feel entitled to hurt others due to past hurt.
• They may ruminate on perceived instances of rejection and hurt.
• They may have a tendency for interpersonal victimhood.
• They may have a lack of moral or intellectual depth.

Black Pill Worldview

• The black pill worldview is a cynical attitude towards life.
• It captures one of the only things that a large swell of incels agree on.
• It refers to the belief that there is nothing that they could do to improve their romantic prospects.
• It is derived from the concept of the red pill from the movie The Matrix.
• It is an extreme minority within the incel community.

Sexlessness and Incels

• The incel community seems larger due to access to online forums.
• The community is dominated by a small group of extreme minority within the community.
• The community lives in a sex-saturated world.
• People often overestimate the amount of sex others are having.
• Incels may feel better about other people's suffering as well.

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