Justin Mogilski
@justinmogilski.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology. I use evolutionary theory to study the conflict resolution strategies of people with multiple intimate partners.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Mogilski
https://truebut.substack.com?r=25rst1&utm_medium=ios
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Mogilski
https://truebut.substack.com?r=25rst1&utm_medium=ios
Part 3 is now live 📜
Here, I discuss what we learned about infidelity from our data, and why I think CNM is a better way of having multiple partners than infidelity.
Link and notable excerpts below:
Here, I discuss what we learned about infidelity from our data, and why I think CNM is a better way of having multiple partners than infidelity.
Link and notable excerpts below:
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Part 3 is now live 📜
Here, I discuss what we learned about infidelity from our data, and why I think CNM is a better way of having multiple partners than infidelity.
Link and notable excerpts below:
Here, I discuss what we learned about infidelity from our data, and why I think CNM is a better way of having multiple partners than infidelity.
Link and notable excerpts below:
Our adversarial collaboration is now published.
"Defining diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by the scientific (de)merits of its programming"
In Theory & Society.
Thank you to my incisive coauthors: Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, Bryan Love
🧵below
t.co/RMfzBfraA7
"Defining diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by the scientific (de)merits of its programming"
In Theory & Society.
Thank you to my incisive coauthors: Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, Bryan Love
🧵below
t.co/RMfzBfraA7
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-025-09646-y?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nonoa_20250901&utm_content=10.1007/s11186-025-09646-y
t.co
September 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our adversarial collaboration is now published.
"Defining diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by the scientific (de)merits of its programming"
In Theory & Society.
Thank you to my incisive coauthors: Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, Bryan Love
🧵below
t.co/RMfzBfraA7
"Defining diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by the scientific (de)merits of its programming"
In Theory & Society.
Thank you to my incisive coauthors: Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, Bryan Love
🧵below
t.co/RMfzBfraA7
Months ago I began an adversarial collaboration with Drs.
Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, and Bryan Love to make sense of DEI public discourse.
Today our paper was accepted at Theory & Society.
We suggest a scientific standard for adjudicating the (de)merits of DEI 🧵👇
Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, and Bryan Love to make sense of DEI public discourse.
Today our paper was accepted at Theory & Society.
We suggest a scientific standard for adjudicating the (de)merits of DEI 🧵👇
August 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Months ago I began an adversarial collaboration with Drs.
Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, and Bryan Love to make sense of DEI public discourse.
Today our paper was accepted at Theory & Society.
We suggest a scientific standard for adjudicating the (de)merits of DEI 🧵👇
Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, and Bryan Love to make sense of DEI public discourse.
Today our paper was accepted at Theory & Society.
We suggest a scientific standard for adjudicating the (de)merits of DEI 🧵👇
My advisee, Faith Swanson, will have a virtual poster tomorrow morning at #NEEPS2025 on mate value discrepancies and conflict among partners in consensually non-monogamous relationships. Collab w/ Rhonda Balzarini and Taylor Himes.
She’s brilliant. Ask her tough questions!
She’s brilliant. Ask her tough questions!
June 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My advisee, Faith Swanson, will have a virtual poster tomorrow morning at #NEEPS2025 on mate value discrepancies and conflict among partners in consensually non-monogamous relationships. Collab w/ Rhonda Balzarini and Taylor Himes.
She’s brilliant. Ask her tough questions!
She’s brilliant. Ask her tough questions!
I’ll be at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (#HBES2025) and NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (#NEEPS2025) conferences this week and the following. Looking forward to cracking rocks with ya’ll ;)
Say hi if you see me.
Say hi if you see me.
June 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I’ll be at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (#HBES2025) and NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (#NEEPS2025) conferences this week and the following. Looking forward to cracking rocks with ya’ll ;)
Say hi if you see me.
Say hi if you see me.
In 2021 Sari van Anders published a fascinating piece about diversity in sex/gender research (link below).
The excerpt here is what inspired me to post. I have not seen privilege in social power defined this way before.
This is "overempowerment":
The excerpt here is what inspired me to post. I have not seen privilege in social power defined this way before.
This is "overempowerment":
April 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In 2021 Sari van Anders published a fascinating piece about diversity in sex/gender research (link below).
The excerpt here is what inspired me to post. I have not seen privilege in social power defined this way before.
This is "overempowerment":
The excerpt here is what inspired me to post. I have not seen privilege in social power defined this way before.
This is "overempowerment":
This is my last entry for “Making Sense of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”.
Here, I revisit the prediction that I made about DEI before reading this book. I then draw my conclusions and levy a few critiques.
I'll leave highlights in the comments.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
Here, I revisit the prediction that I made about DEI before reading this book. I then draw my conclusions and levy a few critiques.
I'll leave highlights in the comments.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
April 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is my last entry for “Making Sense of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”.
Here, I revisit the prediction that I made about DEI before reading this book. I then draw my conclusions and levy a few critiques.
I'll leave highlights in the comments.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
Here, I revisit the prediction that I made about DEI before reading this book. I then draw my conclusions and levy a few critiques.
I'll leave highlights in the comments.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
If I redid this, I'd add porn more explicitly.
If you treat porn as a sexual partner with whom your other partner(s) feel they must compete for attention, resources, etc., you've run into some of the challenges of managing multiple relationships.
link.springer.com/referencewor...
If you treat porn as a sexual partner with whom your other partner(s) feel they must compete for attention, resources, etc., you've run into some of the challenges of managing multiple relationships.
link.springer.com/referencewor...
Types of Multi-partnering
link.springer.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If I redid this, I'd add porn more explicitly.
If you treat porn as a sexual partner with whom your other partner(s) feel they must compete for attention, resources, etc., you've run into some of the challenges of managing multiple relationships.
link.springer.com/referencewor...
If you treat porn as a sexual partner with whom your other partner(s) feel they must compete for attention, resources, etc., you've run into some of the challenges of managing multiple relationships.
link.springer.com/referencewor...
April 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Making Sense of DEI - part 3.
Here, I delve into how organizations build trust from accountability, accountability from power, and power from people.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
Here, I delve into how organizations build trust from accountability, accountability from power, and power from people.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
March 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Making Sense of DEI - part 3.
Here, I delve into how organizations build trust from accountability, accountability from power, and power from people.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
Here, I delve into how organizations build trust from accountability, accountability from power, and power from people.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
Such a learning experience to help with the design, lit review, and analysis of this project.
We asked people to retrospect how psychedelics changed the quality of their relationship(s), their number of partners, and their gender/sexuality.
#JSexResearch www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
We asked people to retrospect how psychedelics changed the quality of their relationship(s), their number of partners, and their gender/sexuality.
#JSexResearch www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Perceived Impact of Psychedelics on Sexual, Gender, and Intimate Relationship Dynamics: A Mixed-Methods Investigation: The Journal of Sex Research: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
We’re here to help
www.tandfonline.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Such a learning experience to help with the design, lit review, and analysis of this project.
We asked people to retrospect how psychedelics changed the quality of their relationship(s), their number of partners, and their gender/sexuality.
#JSexResearch www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
We asked people to retrospect how psychedelics changed the quality of their relationship(s), their number of partners, and their gender/sexuality.
#JSexResearch www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
My second entry on "Making Sense of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion". I summarize the history of DEI as presented in Lily Zheng's "DEI Deconstructed".
If you want to learn a bit about the origins of DEI in North America and Europe, take a look.
justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...
If you want to learn a bit about the origins of DEI in North America and Europe, take a look.
justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...
March 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
My second entry on "Making Sense of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion". I summarize the history of DEI as presented in Lily Zheng's "DEI Deconstructed".
If you want to learn a bit about the origins of DEI in North America and Europe, take a look.
justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...
If you want to learn a bit about the origins of DEI in North America and Europe, take a look.
justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...
If it weren’t for the women in my life, I think I would have broken a lot more.
Happy #internationalwomensday
Happy #internationalwomensday
March 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If it weren’t for the women in my life, I think I would have broken a lot more.
Happy #internationalwomensday
Happy #internationalwomensday
Here, I engage with the debate around DEI by reviewing the book "DEI Deconstructed" by Lily Zheng.
It appears on the Spring 2025 reading list for a professional administrator training program that serves all of North America (CAWA).
Walk with me...
justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...
It appears on the Spring 2025 reading list for a professional administrator training program that serves all of North America (CAWA).
Walk with me...
justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...
Making Sense of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
How I learned to build trust for DEI, from DEI.
justinmogilski.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Here, I engage with the debate around DEI by reviewing the book "DEI Deconstructed" by Lily Zheng.
It appears on the Spring 2025 reading list for a professional administrator training program that serves all of North America (CAWA).
Walk with me...
justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...
It appears on the Spring 2025 reading list for a professional administrator training program that serves all of North America (CAWA).
Walk with me...
justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...
I listened to the most recent episode of the "Beat Your Genes" podcast where Dr. Doug Lisle was asked how a wife should handle interest in extra-pair sex.
I disagreed with him. So, I wrote this article.
Unexpectedly, I also talk about incels.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
I disagreed with him. So, I wrote this article.
Unexpectedly, I also talk about incels.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
Bad Arguments against Non-Monogamy - part 1
There's a better way to beat your genes than coalitional mate retention.
open.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I listened to the most recent episode of the "Beat Your Genes" podcast where Dr. Doug Lisle was asked how a wife should handle interest in extra-pair sex.
I disagreed with him. So, I wrote this article.
Unexpectedly, I also talk about incels.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
I disagreed with him. So, I wrote this article.
Unexpectedly, I also talk about incels.
open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...
Now in Denver for SPSP until Sunday.
Look up my talks if you’re interested in:
1) psychedelics + sexuality, or
2) how stigma against consensual non-monogamy might be explained by false inferences about sociosexuality.
So, only boring stuff. Say hi if you see me!
Look up my talks if you’re interested in:
1) psychedelics + sexuality, or
2) how stigma against consensual non-monogamy might be explained by false inferences about sociosexuality.
So, only boring stuff. Say hi if you see me!
February 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Now in Denver for SPSP until Sunday.
Look up my talks if you’re interested in:
1) psychedelics + sexuality, or
2) how stigma against consensual non-monogamy might be explained by false inferences about sociosexuality.
So, only boring stuff. Say hi if you see me!
Look up my talks if you’re interested in:
1) psychedelics + sexuality, or
2) how stigma against consensual non-monogamy might be explained by false inferences about sociosexuality.
So, only boring stuff. Say hi if you see me!
What are the best published, peer-reviewed article(s) on the psychology of *devotion* to someone?
Not just commitment, investment, or loyalty.
I mean: enthusiastic, adoring, filled-with-fervor, willingness to sacrifice yourself in service to someone who you perceive is powerfully worthy.
Not just commitment, investment, or loyalty.
I mean: enthusiastic, adoring, filled-with-fervor, willingness to sacrifice yourself in service to someone who you perceive is powerfully worthy.
February 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What are the best published, peer-reviewed article(s) on the psychology of *devotion* to someone?
Not just commitment, investment, or loyalty.
I mean: enthusiastic, adoring, filled-with-fervor, willingness to sacrifice yourself in service to someone who you perceive is powerfully worthy.
Not just commitment, investment, or loyalty.
I mean: enthusiastic, adoring, filled-with-fervor, willingness to sacrifice yourself in service to someone who you perceive is powerfully worthy.
I liked this article published by Aporia for its clarity and most of the logic.
I’m also cautious that it links to white pride news in the last sentence.
I want to engage because its first premise about marriage is the same that I make, but we draw diff conclusions👇
I’m also cautious that it links to white pride news in the last sentence.
I want to engage because its first premise about marriage is the same that I make, but we draw diff conclusions👇
January 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I liked this article published by Aporia for its clarity and most of the logic.
I’m also cautious that it links to white pride news in the last sentence.
I want to engage because its first premise about marriage is the same that I make, but we draw diff conclusions👇
I’m also cautious that it links to white pride news in the last sentence.
I want to engage because its first premise about marriage is the same that I make, but we draw diff conclusions👇
Tenure track position in cognitive, experimental, biological psychology: www.schooljobs.com/careers/jsum...
Assistant Professor in (Experimental) Psychology
The Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts invites applications for a position as Assistant Professor (Experimental Psychology).
www.schooljobs.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Tenure track position in cognitive, experimental, biological psychology: www.schooljobs.com/careers/jsum...
I decided that I had some things to say about the term “gender”, given what I've seen discussed in the past week.
Link below.
Link below.
January 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I decided that I had some things to say about the term “gender”, given what I've seen discussed in the past week.
Link below.
Link below.
Reposted by Justin Mogilski
"life is generally a tragic prospect, and we have good reasons to regret that these are the constraints of our predicament... here, as elsewhere, the pessimist tradition is illuminating"
Patrick O'Donnell, Pessimism and the Tragedy of Strong Attachments - PhilArchive
Pessimists hold that human life is fundamentally a condition of suffering which cannot attain transcendent meaning. According to pessimistic nihilism, life’s lack of transcendent meaning gives us reas...
philarchive.org
January 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"life is generally a tragic prospect, and we have good reasons to regret that these are the constraints of our predicament... here, as elsewhere, the pessimist tradition is illuminating"
Yeah, this gets at it.
Though, I also think Sam Harris overuses "psychotic", "barbarian", and other ~vague terms to describe groups whose beliefs detract from secular improvements to wellbeing.
He's right: how influential people say things matters.
open.substack.com/pub/samharri...
Though, I also think Sam Harris overuses "psychotic", "barbarian", and other ~vague terms to describe groups whose beliefs detract from secular improvements to wellbeing.
He's right: how influential people say things matters.
open.substack.com/pub/samharri...
January 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yeah, this gets at it.
Though, I also think Sam Harris overuses "psychotic", "barbarian", and other ~vague terms to describe groups whose beliefs detract from secular improvements to wellbeing.
He's right: how influential people say things matters.
open.substack.com/pub/samharri...
Though, I also think Sam Harris overuses "psychotic", "barbarian", and other ~vague terms to describe groups whose beliefs detract from secular improvements to wellbeing.
He's right: how influential people say things matters.
open.substack.com/pub/samharri...
Addendum: if you balk at “vast majority”, please take stock of how many parasocial relationships (e.g., via movies, shows, video games, fantasy role play, religion, history, science) you currently have.
If you’re not a massive socialite, you’re probably here already.
If you’re not a massive socialite, you’re probably here already.
I think it’s OK if the vast majority of a person’s relationships are parasocial, as long as they have at least a few deep personal relationships that they maintain.
Sometimes you want a relationship without the baggage of the reality of a personal relationship, and it might...
Sometimes you want a relationship without the baggage of the reality of a personal relationship, and it might...
January 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Addendum: if you balk at “vast majority”, please take stock of how many parasocial relationships (e.g., via movies, shows, video games, fantasy role play, religion, history, science) you currently have.
If you’re not a massive socialite, you’re probably here already.
If you’re not a massive socialite, you’re probably here already.
I think it’s OK if the vast majority of a person’s relationships are parasocial, as long as they have at least a few deep personal relationships that they maintain.
Sometimes you want a relationship without the baggage of the reality of a personal relationship, and it might...
Sometimes you want a relationship without the baggage of the reality of a personal relationship, and it might...
January 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I think it’s OK if the vast majority of a person’s relationships are parasocial, as long as they have at least a few deep personal relationships that they maintain.
Sometimes you want a relationship without the baggage of the reality of a personal relationship, and it might...
Sometimes you want a relationship without the baggage of the reality of a personal relationship, and it might...