Decoding love
Subtitle: why it takes twelve frogs to find a prince and other revelations from the science of attraction
By: Andrew Trees
Edition: 1st trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Avery
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781583333747
Subjects: Sexual attraction; Dating (Social customs)
Description: Shares the scientific principles behind romantic attraction, debunking popular misconceptions in order to explain how and why people choose their ultimate partners after a series of prior relationships.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: The dating mind : what I learned about dating from Freud, or at least from the subconscious; title: The dating animal : what I learned about dating from Darwin; title: The dating animal, part II : how dating is what makes us human or Darwin reconsidered; title: A brief intermission to consider the question of monogamy; title: The dating culture : what I learned about dating from Thorstein Veblen; title: The dating culture, part II : what I learned about dating from Sex and the city; title: The dating game : what I learned about dating from Adam Smith; title: The dating dance : what I learned about dating from hanging out in bars; title: A second brief intermission to focus, finally, on the more traditional subject of a book about attraction : practical advice; title: The end of dating : what I learned about marriage.