PEOPLE
Punishing work
Diana Fleischman
Diana Fleischman, an evolutionary psychologist and daredevil essayist-cum-podcaster, is writing a book about how best to train your boyfriend. One might pity her husband, Geoffrey Miller, but for the fact that he, too, is an evolutionary psychologist. “Geoffrey is aware of what I’m doing,” she says. “Occasionally I will lose my temper, and he’ll be like”— she adopts a tone of faux-smugness—“‘This is bad training. I’m not going to do what you want.’” She laughs. “But there are things that work well. He’s incredibly sensitive to punishment, so I have to be careful about how much I use it.”