David M. Buss

With two new chapters by the author.If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, says noted psychologist David Buss, we must look into our evolutionary past. Based on the most massive study of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than ten thousand people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is the first book to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. Now in a revised and updated edition, Buss's classic presents the latest research in the field, including startling new discoveries about the evolutionary advantages of infidelity, orgasm, and physical attractiveness.

A partir de la experiencia de los autores, dedicada al estudio científico de la personalidad, esta obra desglosa los dominios de la aproximación académica al estudio de la personalidad y sus elementos, no desde un unico enfoque sino a traves de las distintas teorias y corrientes de pensamiento que han confluido en el estudio de la Psicologia humana.

¿Qué hace que nos sintamos atraídos hacia otra persona como pareja potencial? ¿Cuáles son las causas de que nos emparejemos? ¿Cuáles los motivos de la ruptura de tales relaciones? ¿Con quiénes nos casamos y con quienes, simplemente, ligamos? ¿Que rasgos hacen mutuamente atractivos a los miembros de nuestra especie? Preguntas como estas atraviesan nuestras relaciones amorosas, nos fascinan y perturban. David M. Buss ofrece en La evolucion del deseo lo que el enfoque de la psicologia evolucionista aporta para responder a estos interrogantes. Buss se apoya en el mas amplio estudio sobre la conducta de emparejamiento realizado hasta la fecha. A partir de los datos obtenidos sobre mas de diez mil personas de treinta y siete culturas distintas el autor desarrolla sus provocadoras tesis. Tanto si las aceptamos, como si no, puede afirmarse que nuestra concepcion de las relaciones de pareja, el amor, el matrimonio y la separacion no seguiran siendo las mismas tras la lectura de este libro.

Why do men and women cheat on each other? How do men really feel when their partners have sex with other men? What worries women more -- men who turn to other women for love or men who simply want sexual variety in their lives? Can the jealousy husbands and wives experience over real or imagined infidelities be cured? Should it be? In this surprising and engaging exploration of mens and womens darker passions, David Buss, acclaimed author of The Evolution of Desire, reveals that both men and women are actually designed for jealousy. Drawing on experiments, surveys, and interviews conducted in thirty-seven countries on six continents, as well as insights from recent discoveries in biology, anthropology, and psychology, Buss discovers that the evolutionary origins of our sexual desires still shape our passions today. According to Buss, more men than women want to have sex with multiple partners. Furthermore, women who cheat on their husbands do so when they are most likely to conceive, but have sex with their spouses when they are least likely to conceive. These findings show that evolutionary tendencies to acquire better genes through different partners still lurk beneath modern sexual behavior. To counteract these desires to stray -- and to strengthen the bonds between partners -- jealousy evolved as an early detection system of infidelity in the ancient and mysterious ritual of mating. Buss takes us on a fascinating journey through many cultures, from pre-historic to the present, to show the profound evolutionary effect jealousy has had on all of us. Only with a healthy balance of jealousy and trust can we be certain of a mates commitment, devotion, and true love.

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A stunning study that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love A drop-dead shocker. Washington Post Book World If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is the first work to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. Drawing on a wide range of examples of mating behaviorfrom lovebugs to elephant seals, from the Yanomamo tribe of Venezuela to online dating appsBuss reveals what women want, what men want, and why their desires radically differ. Love has a central place in human sexual psychology, but conflict, competition, and manipulation also pervade human matingsomething we must confront in order to control our own mating destiny. Updated to reflect recent scientific research on human mating, this definitive edition of this classic work of evolutionary psychology explains the powerful forces that shape our most intimate desires.

El estudio de la personalidad es uno de los campos más excitantes de la psicología, cuyos avances han cobrado relevancia y actualidad.La presente edición ha incorporado novedosos e importantes temas, como una profunda exposicion de las teorias de la personalidad y su evaluacion: Cobertura de la IRMf a los metodos fisiologicos; Un novedoso y vasto tratamiento de la taxonomia de la personalidad de los Cinco Grandes y las combinaciones de sus variables. Seccion de la precision de las puntuaciones del GRE para pronosticar el exito en la universidad; Seccion sobre el Indicador de Tipos Myers-Briggs; Estudio a cerca del trastorno de identidad de genero (TIG), y seccion actualizada sobre genetica molecular con investigacion del gene D4DR; Material actual a cerca de la personalidad y la funcion cerebral, asi como sobre la superposicion entre las teorias de la personalidad de Eysenck y Gray; Nuevos resultados empiricos sobre la TAT, e informacion de como derivar y validar las calificaciones de las escalas nLog, nPod y nInt; Inclusion del trabajo mas reciente de Check y Kagan, con aplicacion de imagenes de IRMf a la timidez.

As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals, the vast majority of murders are committed by people who, until the day they kill, would seem to be perfectly normal.David Busss pioneering work has made major national news in the past, and this provocative book is sure to generate a storm of attention. The Murderer Next Door is a riveting look into the dark underworld of the human psychean astonishing exploration of when and why we kill and what might push any one of us over the edge. A leader in the innovative field of evolutionary psychology, Buss conducted an unprecedented set of studies investigating the underlying motives and circumstances of murders, from the bizarre outlier cases of serial killers to those of the friendly next-door neighbor who one day kills his wife.Reporting on findings that are often startling and counterintuitivethe younger woman involved in a love triangle is at a high risk of being killedhe puts forth a bold new general theory of homicide, arguing that the human psyche has evolved specialized adaptations whose function is to kill. Taking readers through the surprising twists and turns of the evolutionary logic of murder, he explains exactly when each of us is most at risk, both of being murdered and of becoming a murderer. His findings about the high-risk situations alone will be news making.Featuring gripping storytelling about specific murder casesincluding a never used FBI file of more than 400,000 murders and a highly detailed study of 400 murders conducted by Buss in collaboration with a forensic psychiatrist, and a pioneering investigation of homicidal fantasies in which Buss found that 91 percent of men and 84 percent of women have had at least one such vivid fantasyThe Murderer Next Door will be necessary reading for those who have been fascinated by books on profiling, lovers of true crime and murder mysteries, as well as readers intrigued by the inner workings of the human mind.

¿Qué hace que nos sintamos atraídos hacia otra persona como pareja potencial? ¿Cuáles son las causas de que nos emparejemos? ¿Cuáles los motivos de la ruptura de tales relaciones? ¿Con quién nos casamos y con quienes simplemente ligamos? ¿Que rasgos hacen mutuamente atractivos a los miembros de nuestra especie? DAVID M. BUSS ofrece en LA EVOLUCION DEL DESEO lo que el enfoque de la psicologia evolucionista aporta para responder a estos interrogantes. Apoyandose en el mas amplio estudio sobre la conducta de emparejamiento realizado hasta la fecha, que comprende mas de diez mil personas de treinta y siete culturas distintas, el autor desarrolla sus provocadoras tesis, capaces de alterar de forma radical nuestra concepcion de las relaciones de pareja, el amor, el matrimonio y la separacion. Esta nueva edicion, correspondiente a la segunda en ingles, cuenta, respecto a la anterior, con dos capitulos adicionales que versan sobre Estrategias sexuales femeninas ocultas y Misterios del emparejamiento humano.

¿Qué hace que nos sintamos atraídos hacia otra persona como pareja potencial? ¿Cuáles son las causas de que nos emparejemos? ¿Cuáles los motivos de la ruptura de tales relaciones? ¿Con quién nos casamos y con quienes simplemente "ligamos"? ¿Que rasgos hacen mutuamente atractivos a los miembros de nuestra especie? En La evolucion del deseo David M. Buss ofrece para responder a estos interrogantes lo que aporta el enfoque de la psicologia evolucionista. Apoyandose en el mas amplio estudio sobre la conducta de emparejamiento realizado hasta la fecha, que comprende mas de diez mil personas de treinta y siete culturas distintas, el autor desarrolla sus provocadoras tesis, capaces de alterar de forma radical nuestra concepcion de las relaciones de pareja, el amor, el matrimonio y la separacion.

A stunning study that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love"A drop-dead shocker." -Washington Post Book WorldIf we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is the first work to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. Drawing on a wide range of examples of mating behavior-from lovebugs to elephant seals, from the Yanomamo tribe of Venezuela to online dating apps-Buss reveals what women want, what men want, and why their desires radically differ. Love has a central place in human sexual psychology, but conflict, competition, and manipulation also pervade human mating-something we must confront in order to control our own mating destiny.Updated to reflect recent scientific research on human mating, this definitive edition of this classic work of evolutionary psychology explains the powerful forces that shape our most intimate desires.

Why Women Have Sex is a fascinating exploration of the mysteries underlying women's sexuality that rivals the culture-shifting Kinsey Report. Why do women have sex? Is it purely for pleasure or the desire to reproduce? In their ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Cindy Meston and evolutionary psychologist David Buss investigate the underlying sexual desires of women and identify 237 distinct motivations for sex. Drawing on more than a thousand intensive interviews conducted solely for the book, as well as their pioneering research on physiological response and evolutionary emotions, Meston and Buss give us a remarkably complex and nuanced portrait of female sexuality. They explore the use of sex as a defensive tactic against a mans infidelity (protection), as a ploy to boost self-confidence (status), as a barter for gifts (resource acquisition), or even as a cure for a headache (medication). Why Women Have Sex explores the deep-seated psychology and biology of female sexuality, and promises to inform every womans and her partners awareness of her relationship to sex and her own sexuality.

¿Alguna vez has practicado sexo por pena y te sigues preguntando por qué? Why Women Have Sex muestra a las clarastoda la verdad sobre el deseo femenino y cómo a veces éste está relacionado con la venganza, las ganas de impresionar a los amigos o la obligacion, el ansia de tener un contacto directo con Dios, el odio o el aburrimiento. Un recorrido global por la sexualidad femenina, que abarca el placer, la experiencia, la salud psicologica, el estatus, el poder sobre el hombre, el vinculo amoroso, la rivalidad sexual, el lado oscuro del sexo y la reproduccion. ¿ Por que nadie habia hablado nunca de esto ? The Guardian Este libro esta lleno de revelaciones Psychology Today