Purchase
Mating Intelligence Unleashed
Glenn Geher
The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love
Oxford University Press
February 2013
On Sale: January 30, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 0195396855
EAN: 9780195396850
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
Psychologists often paint a picture of human mating as
visceral, instinctual. But that's not the whole story. In
courtship and display, sexual competition and rivalry, we
are also guided by what Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman
call Mating Intelligence--a range of mental abilities that
have evolved to help us find the right partner. Mating
Intelligence is at work in our efforts to form, maintain,
and end relationships. It guides us in flirtation, foreplay,
copulation, finding and choosing a mate, and many other
behaviors. In Mating Intelligence Unleashed, psychologists Geher and
Kaufman take readers on a fascinating tour of the crossroads
of mating and intelligence, drawing on cutting-edge research
on evolutionary psychology, intelligence, creativity,
personality, social psychology, neuroscience, and more. The
authors show that despite what you may read in the latest
issue of Maxim, Playboy, Vogue, or GQ, physical
attractiveness isn't the whole story. Human mating draws on
a range of mental skills and attributes--from the creative
use of pick-up lines, to displays of charisma, intelligence,
humor, personality, and compassion. Along the way, the
authors shed new light on age-old questions, such as: What
role does personality play in mating? Which traits are
attractive--and which traits repulse? How do people really
choose mates? How do men and women deceive each other? How
important is emotional intelligence? Why do people create
art--and does it have anything to do with sex? Do nice guys
really finish last? Since Glenn Geher coined the term Mating Intelligence in
2006, it has drawn a great deal of media attention, ranging
from a Psychology Today cover story to articles in the New
Scientist, the Washington Times, the Huffington Post, and
elsewhere. Now, in Mating Intelligence Unleashed, readers
will have the first full account of this revolutionary new
approach to dating, mating, and love.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy