BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Overconfidence Bias, and Anchoring Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 56.7% saturation with 80 hits. Analysis detected 431 faulty-reasoning hits from 141 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.4% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,285 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.40% of the article peer group.
Questions about the nature of love — what sparks it, why it fails, why it sometimes lasts a lifetime — are so timeless, and the opinions around these questions so varied, that they can seem unanswerable.
But there is a science of love, as well as sex and romance, that has something to say about these longstanding questions.
Garcia offers this: The need for intimacy, even more than sex, is the drive that actually dictates human happiness.
The problem comes when our hardwiring for social monogamy crosses paths with the desire for sexual novelty.
Justin Garcia explains how to reconcile these two impulses.
GUEST –
Justin R. Garcia | Director of the Kinsey Institute.
His new book is called “The Intimate Animal: The Science of Sex, Fidelity, and Why We Live and Die for Love.”
Airdate: March 12 and 14, 2026
Confirmation Bias
12.1%Confirmation Bias
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12.1%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
22.5%PublicationKUER
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Anchoring Bias
25.5%Anchoring Bias
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25.5%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
8.5%PublicationKUER
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
17%PublicationKUER
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
8.5%PublicationKUER
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Overconfidence Bias
35.5%Overconfidence Bias
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35.5%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
32.2%PublicationKUER
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Framing Effect
40.4%Framing Effect
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40.4%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
41.4%PublicationKUER
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Optimism Bias
22%Optimism Bias
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22%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
7.3%PublicationKUER
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Pessimism Bias
25.5%Pessimism Bias
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25.5%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
17%PublicationKUER
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
8.5%PublicationKUER
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
4%PublicationKUER
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Halo Effect
6.4%Halo Effect
OverallThis article
6.4%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
18%PublicationKUER
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
8.5%PublicationKUER
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Appeal to Authority
56.7%Appeal to Authority
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56.7%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
46.8%PublicationKUER
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False Dilemma
12.1%False Dilemma
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12.1%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
12.1%PublicationKUER
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Hasty Generalization
13.5%Hasty Generalization
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13.5%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
35.2%PublicationKUER
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
31.4%PublicationKUER
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Begging the Question
14.9%Begging the Question
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14.9%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
7.1%PublicationKUER
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
13.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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13.5%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
4.5%PublicationKUER
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Appeal to Nature
12.1%Appeal to Nature
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12.1%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
12.1%PublicationKUER
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
15.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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15.6%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
10.4%PublicationKUER
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Biased Writer Voice
0%Biased Writer Voice
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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0%AuthorJustin R. Garcia
0%PublicationKUER
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141 words analyzed.
Analysis
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