Details

Subject(s)

• Mate selection [Browse]
• Interpersonal relations [Browse]
• Human behavior [Browse]

Editor

• Buss, David M. [Browse]

Series

Oxford library of psychology. [More in this series]

Summary note

The scientific study of human mating has mushroomed over the past three decades. This handbook showcases 'the best and the brightest' scientists in the field, providing up-to-date summaries of theories and empirical evidence of the science of human mating strategies. It includes major sections on theories of human mating; mate selection and mate attraction; mate competition; sexual conflict in mating; human pair bonding; the endocrinology of mating; and mating in the modern world.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2023.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 27, 2023).

Contents

• Writing Trivers's 1972 Theory of Parental Investment and Sexual Selection / Robert Trivers
• Mate Guarding / Valerie G. Starratt, Todd K. Shackelford
• Sperm Competition / Valerie G. Starratt, Todd K. Shackelford
• Ovulatory cycle effects and hormonal influences on women's mating psychology / Julia Stern, Lars Penke
• Mate Choice in the Digital Age / Helen E. Fisher, Justin R. Garcia
• Popular Culture and Human Mating: Artifacts of Desire / Catherine A. Salmon, Rebecca L. Burch
• Evolutionary Mismatch and Human Mating: Understanding the Mating Mind in the Modern World / Cari D. Goetz
• Introduction to Human Mating Strategies / David M. Buss
• Sexual Selection and the Animal's Mating Mind / Michael J. Ryan
• The interface of sexual selection, conflict and evolutionary psychology: emerging core themes / Jennifer C. Perry, Tracey Chapman
• The Early Stages of Mate Selection / Norman P. Li, Bryan K. C. Choy
• Extensions of Sexual Strategies Theory across Peoples, Cultures, and Ecologies / David P. Schmitt
• Computational Models of Mate Choice / Daniel Conroy-Beam
• The logic of physical attractiveness: what people find attractive, when, and why / David M. G. Lewis, Kortnee C. Evans, Laith Al-Shawaf
• Incest Avoidance Adaptations: Evolved function and proximate mechanisms / Debra Lieberman, Carlton Patrick
• Parental Influence Over Mate Choice / Menelaos Apostolou
• Mating Strategy Variation by Sexual Orientation / David A. Frederick, Jenna C. Alley, Scott W. Semenyna, Justin R. Garcia
• Contest Competition for Mates and the Evolution of Human Males / David Puts, David Carrier, Alan R. Rogers
• An Evolutionary Review of Female Intrasexual Competition / Maryanne L. Fisher, Jaimie Arona Krems
• Evolving Connections: Attachment and Human Mating Strategies / Gurit E. Birnbaum
• Archeology of love: A review of the ethnographic exploration of love around the world / William Jankowiak, Alex J. Nelson
• Beyond sex: Reproductive Strategies and Sex Ratio Variation / Ryan Schacht, Caroline Uggla
• Marital and Sexual Satisfaction / Andrea L. Meltzer
• Sex Differences in Jealousy: The State of the Theory / John E. Edlund, Brad J. Sagarin, Kristyn M. Kinner
• Deception in Human Mating / Gayle Brewer
• The Dark Triad and Human Mating Strategies / Peter K. Jonason, Vlad Burtaverde
• Sexual Harassment / Kingsley R. Browne
• Sexual Coercion / Joseph A. Camilleri
• The Impact of Hormonal Contraceptives on Women's Sexual and Mating Psychology / Katja Cunningham, Sarah E. Hill
• Hormones and Human Mating / James R. Roney
• Mating Strategies in Sexually Egalitarian Cultures / Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, Andrea M. Kessler, Steven W. Gangestad, Mons Bendixen
• Mate competition between the sexes: Evidence from two non-Western cultures / Scott W. Semenyna, Francisco R. Gómez Jiménez, Paul L. Vasey
• Marriage and Monogamy in Cross-cultural Perspective / Brooke A. Scelza
• Violent Mates / Joshua D. Duntley
• Women's Avoidance of Sexual Assault / Rachel M. James, Melissa M. McDonald, Viviana Weekes-Shackelford
• Understanding Women's Estrus and Extended Sexuality: The Dual Sexuality Framework / Steven W. Gangestad, Tran Dinh, Lauren Lesko, Martie G. Haselton.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of human mating
• Human mating

ISBN

• 0-19-753646-8
• 0-19-753644-1
• 0-19-753645-X

OCLC

1359041195

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