Sources

A collection of studies, articles and videos that are often cited in Red Pill and dating discussions, sorted by topic. Each entry has a one-line summary of what the source says. Many links are from 2010–2014 and some may no longer work. Where a link is dead, the Wayback Machine often has a copy. Studies vary a lot in quality, so read the original before relying on a statistic.

Violence

CDC study via SAVE Services: reports that in one year more men than women were victims of physical partner violence and psychological aggression.
MD Connects (2014): study presented at a conference finding women more likely to be verbally and physically aggressive toward partners.
Video: public service ad about violence against men.
Video: social experiment on how bystanders react to violence against men in public.
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Fidelity and cheating

Social Pathology blog: chart linking more premarital partners with higher divorce risk.
HuffPost (2014): cites survey data suggesting women's infidelity rose in the previous 20 years; men said their own cheating was mostly emotional, not sexual.
Soto Nation: study of 4,000 people who cheated, reporting women had more secret partners and started younger.
HuffPost (2014): men rate sexual affairs as worse; women rate emotional affairs as worse, and each forgives the other kind more easily.
New York Post (2003): one researcher's interviews with unfaithful wives, most of whom reported little guilt.
Daily Mail: psychologist argues women cheat nearly as often as men but hide it better; cites paternity-mismatch estimates.
Daily Mail (2014): study linking fewer premarital partners with higher marital satisfaction for women, but not for men.
Daily Mail: history piece on relationships between French women and occupying soldiers in WWII.

Honesty and sexual history

The Scotsman: survey where most women admitted lying to partners.
BBC: survey on women's attitudes to honesty, money and relationships.
New Scientist: women reported more sexual partners when they believed they were on a lie detector; men's answers barely changed.
The Guardian (2003): comment piece on how the "acceptable" number of partners women report has crept up over the decades.
Daily Mail (2014): student survey where some women lowered and some men raised their reported partner count.
MetaFilter: discussion thread about doubting people's accounts.
Brian Banks case: a man exonerated after a false accusation. Also: image on false accusations, female sex offenders site.

Behaviour and psychology

Norah Vincent: a woman who lived 18 months disguised as a man talks about what she learned (book: Self-Made Man).
"Women are wonderful" effect (Wikipedia): research finding people rate women more positively than men in general.
Rudman & Goodwin (2004): women showed automatic in-group bias toward women; men showed no equivalent bias toward men.
Video: research that men find caring, responsive women more attractive.
Psychology Today (2014): men report love at first sight more often, say "I love you" first more often, and are in some ways the more romantic sex.
Metro and SFGate (2014): survey claiming about half of married women have a "backup" partner in mind.
New York Times (2013), Baumeister & Twenge (2002), Vaillancourt (2013) and LiveScience: research suggesting women, more than men, police other women's sexuality, and that indirect aggression (gossip, put-downs) is a main way women compete.
Fox News (2011): biological differences in tear glands help explain why women cry more readily.
BBC: study suggesting the chemistry of early romantic love fades within about a year.
Globe and Mail: Margaret Wente on how aging affects women's and men's dating prospects differently.
PsyBlog (2013): brain-imaging study on differences in male and female brain wiring.
Vagabondish: a foreign woman's mixed feelings about getting less attention in Japan.
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Online dating

Jon Millward's experiment: over four months, fake women's profiles got about 20 times more messages than men's, mostly going to the two best-looking women.
OkCupid blog: how much looks drive messages on a dating site.
Video: a male model's experience getting hundreds of matches on Tinder.
MGTOW blog: post on the odds men face in online dating.
See also Online Dating and Survival Guide For Online Dating.

Divorce

People: Mel Gibson's divorce settlement.
NY Daily News: record $4.8 billion divorce award against a Russian billionaire.
Forbes (2010): study finding breadwinner wives were more likely to divorce.
New York Times (2005): rising, mostly women-initiated divorce in China.
Yahoo News: rising divorce in India.
Daily Mail: stay-at-home husbands being left by high-earning wives.
Divorce Corp clip on alimony; video on the limits of prenups.
Image links: who files for divorce, chart

Money and work

Industry statistics compiled by Jamie Dunham: women make or influence most household purchases (homes, cars, healthcare, travel, food).
Video: on the most dangerous jobs, which are mostly done by men.
UTSA (2014): research on how ovulation affects women's economic decisions.
Forbes (2014): childless women in their 20s out-earn men in some cities.
Vohs et al. (2013): women disliked sexual imagery in ads for cheap products, but not for expensive ones.
ScienceDaily (2014): nearly 40% of women with engineering degrees leave or never enter the field, often citing workplace climate.
CTV: estimated cost of a relationship. Image link.
Forbes (2014): argument that the gender pay gap mostly reflects choices, not discrimination.
Wall Street Journal (2014): women are more successful than men at crowdfunding.

Sex and mating

NYT TierneyLab (2007): Roy Baumeister's point that historically far more women than men had children.
RealClearScience: the classic Clark & Hatfield study. Most men accepted a stranger's offer of sex; no women did.
Video and video: street experiments asking strangers for sex.
news.com.au: survey of 2,000 young women on partners, cheating and attitudes to sex.
Video on the "alpha fux, beta bux" idea.

What women find attractive

Word cloud: words men and women use most on social media.
Evolutionary Psychology: how a husband's self-esteem affects how he tries to keep his partner.
Scientific American, Psychologies, Jonason & Kavanagh (2010): "dark triad" traits (narcissism, manipulation, callousness) are linked to more short-term dating success.
Pornhub Insights and HuffPost (2014): submission themes are common in women's fantasies.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Medill: women's preferences shift toward more masculine men around ovulation.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: more masculine faces are seen as both more attractive and more dangerous.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: unusual, intense or emotional situations increase attraction.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: "benevolent sexist" men (protective, chivalrous) were rated most likeable.
Pacific Standard: men find a caring, understanding partner attractive; women much less so.
NPR (2014): Beijing experiment where women accepted a ride from a man in a Lamborghini but not in a cheap SUV.
The Week: round-up of findings: playing hard to get works, narcissists are attractive at first sight, and looks versus status preferences hold across cultures and ages.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: research that agreeable, modest men had fewer sexual partners.
See also Indicators of Interest and What does a woman want?.

Height

Heightism Report, screenshots on height preferences, and video of a short man being heckled in New York.

Intellect

APA study: men and women score similarly in maths on average, with more men at the very top end.
FIDE top 100 chess ratings.

Society and law

Return of Kings and Return of Kings: articles, the second summarising Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power.
Businessweek (2014): women dislike having female bosses more than men do.
Starr (2012): women get much shorter sentences than men for the same offences and are more likely to avoid charges.
Psychology Today (2014): Warren Farrell on men's shorter lives, suicide rates, workplace deaths and the draft.
RealSexism.com: list of statistics on areas where men are disadvantaged.

Fatherless homes

The Fatherless Generation: statistics on outcomes for children without fathers.
The Atlantic (2013): single-parent households have more than tripled as a share of US households since 1960.
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