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Mating intelligence unleashed : the role of the mind in sex, dating, and love / Glenn Geher, Scott Barry Kaufman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199875436
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ801 .M385 2013
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Contents:
I'm too sexy for this canvas : why creativity is sexy -- Wanted! neurotic mess the role of personality in mating -- What's your cue? : attractiveness and mate choice in the real world -- Game plans : the highly contextual nature of human mating strategies -- She totally wants me : in the world of mating, biased perceptions are everywhere -- I really am a tall doctor and of course I love you! : mind-reading, emotional intelligence, and deception -- Do nice guys finish last? : the multiple routes to mating success -- Mating intelligence saves the world.
Subject: 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 tak.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : Cupid's cognitive arrow -- I'm too sexy for this canvas : why creativity is sexy -- Wanted! neurotic mess the role of personality in mating -- What's your cue? : attractiveness and mate choice in the real world -- Game plans : the highly contextual nature of human mating strategies -- She totally wants me : in the world of mating, biased perceptions are everywhere -- I really am a tall doctor and of course I love you! : mind-reading, emotional intelligence, and deception -- Do nice guys finish last? : the multiple routes to mating success -- Mating intelligence saves the world.

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 tak.

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