Dr Paul Allen

Philip George Zimbardo in Warsaw, Poland - 07.04.2009 Polski: Profesor Philip G. Zimbardo w czasie seminarium Warszawie (GPW, 07.04.2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) According to psychologist Philip Zimbardo , young men in America are doomed–at least they are educationally , relationally, and sexually. As he says at the beginning of his recent TED Talks video, “The Demise of Guys,” Guys are flaming out academically, they’re wiping out relationally with girls, and sexually with women. Other than that, there’s not much of a problem. You may remember Zimbardo from his famous “ Stanford prison experiment ,” which divided students into “prisoners” and “guards” to study the effects of power relationships. Now he’s looking at why it is that young men in America seem to be performing poorly in so many areas. Educationally “girls now outperform boys at all levels from elementary school to graduate school .” And relationally guys are rather clueless. (That’s been true for a long time, bu

Image via Wikipedia Sex Is Cheap  - Here’s an interesting article from Slate with a look at today’s sexual economics. “Despite the fact that women are holding the sexual purse strings, they aren’t asking for much in return these days—the market ‘price’ of sex is currently very low.”