Robert King

Robert King is a Professor of Applied Psychology at University College Cork. His blog, Hive Mind, is hosted by Psychology Today.

7 Posts

The Kind of Man Your Mother Warned You About

Why women love true crime.

Robert King

6 Nov 2023 · 10 min read

What Does She See In Him?

The strange phenomenon of hybristophiles.

Robert King

26 Jun 2023 · 6 min read

Running Amok

An empirical analysis of spree killings finds that two distinct patterns emerge.

Robert King

27 May 2023 · 8 min read

What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction?

Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.

Robert King

9 May 2022 · 10 min read

Naturally Selective: Female Orgasm and Female Sexual Selection

Female orgasms themselves could, once again, be roughly divided into being located either deep inside or comparatively on the surface.

Robert King

7 Jan 2022 · 9 min read

Reviving "Essentialism" and Other Scientific Straw Men

In fact—it’s even more interesting than that. Multiple matings do (perhaps surprisingly) benefit females in all sorts of ways across all sort of species.

Robert King

11 Apr 2017 · 10 min read

Alice in Blunder Land

“Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, very gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Robert King

28 Jan 2016 · 9 min read