Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love

ISBN-13: 9780195396850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 320 str.

Glenn Geher; Scott Barry Kaufman; Scott Barry Kaufman

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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.

Recenzje

[a] delightful and fascinating book ... An important contribution to the literature ... Highly recommended.

O autorze

Glenn Geher is an evolutionary behavioral scientist with more than 50 publications to his name on diverse topics, ranging from emotional intelligence to perceptions of romantic partners to attitudes about why boys are different from girls. Chair of Psychology and Director of Evolutionary Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Dr. Geher is committed to educating young adults and advancing our understanding of the evolutionary underpinnings of what it means to be human. Scott Barry Kaufman is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University, co-founder of The Creativity Post, and Chief Pedagogical Advisor of The Future Project. He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University; an M.Phil. in experimental psychology from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar; and a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include the nature, identification, and development of human intelligence, creativity, imagination, and personality. In addition to more than 25 publications, he is co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence (2011) with Robert J. Sternberg and The Psychology of Creative Writing (2009) with James C. Kaufman. His work has been covered in media outlets such as Scientific American Mind and Men's Health. Additionally, he blogs for Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, Scientific American, and Harvard Business Review.