Love: The Biology Behind the Heart

ISBN-13: 9780367349547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 318 str.

Anthony Walsh

Opis

Walsh discusses that the nature of and need for love has biological origins. He draws upon Darwin's sexual selection theory to define the perceptions of love by infants through the process of experience-dependent brain wiring.

 

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 What Is This Thing Called Love?

2 Love as a Gift of the Gods: The Yearning for Oneness

3 The Human Brain and Love

4 Mother Love and Darwin's Sexual Selection Theory

5 Touching Hearts; Touching Minds

6 Father Love: The Right Hand of the Equation

7 Lovelessness and Lawlessness

8 Love and Physical Health and Illness

9 Mental Health and Illness

10 Self-Love: The Basis for Love of Others

11 Romantic Love: Its Origin and Purpose

12 The Chemistry of Romantic Love

13 Love Styles: How Do You Love Me?

14 Monogamy and Promiscuity

15 Love as Exchange and Barter

16 Ecstasy and Agony: Love and Betrayal

17 Loving by the Numbers

18 Expanding the Circle: The Ethics of Universal Love

References

Index

O autorze

Anthony Walsh is a professor of criminal justice at Boise State University. He received his Ph.D. in criminology from Bowling Green State University in 1983. Walsh worked as a marine, merchant seaman, police officer, and probation officer before entering academia at the age of 44. He teaches criminology, statistics, philosophy of law, and correctional assessment and case management, and is widely published, with more than 40 books and 150 articles on a variety of topics including criminology and biosocial aspects of crime.