#236 Sarah Hill: This Is Your Brain on Birth Control
RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 12th, 2019.
SORRY ABOUT THE ISSUES WITH THE VIDEO QUALITY. THE CONNECTION WAS A BIT WEAK.
Dr. Sarah Hill is Associate Professor of Psychology at Texas Christian University. She studies a range of topics, applying an evolutionary lens, including the interplay between immune function and mating strategies; the impact of inflammation; poverty, food regulation, and weight gain; hormonal contraceptives and mate choice; and other topics under the rubric of life history theory. She is just about to release a book, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences.
In this episode, we focus on Dr. Hill’s upcoming book, This is Your Brain on Birth Control, and go through some of its main topics, like: how women’s behavior changes through their menstrual cycles, and the ovulatory-shift hypothesis; concealed ovulation; the different types of birth control, and their effects on women and people around them. We also talk about why studying biological sex differences is important and is not dangerous at all, the ways the pill empowered women, and also how it might have changed the dynamics in the mating market, including their effects on men.
Time Links:
The premise of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control
The ovulatory-shift hypothesis, and mate preferences across the menstrual cycle
Is ovulation really concealed in women?
Different types of birth control, and their effects on women
How other people react to women on birth control, male partners and other women
Women’s mating strategies across the menstrual cycle, and on the pill
Why studying biological sex differences is not dangerous
How the pill empowered women
How the pill might have changed the dynamics of the mating market
Follow Dr. Hill’s work!
Follow Dr. Hill’s work:
Faculty page: http://bit.ly/2kcibXm
Personal website: http://bit.ly/2m6w5ea
ResearchGate profile: http://bit.ly/2kHpdni
Twitter handle: @sarahehillphd
Instagram: http://bit.ly/2kGzd05
Facebook: http://bit.ly/2kJarwd
Buy the book!
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
https://amzn.to/2kciv8w