Mating Intelligence Unleashed

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 listeners 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 Huffington Post and elsewhere. Now in Mating Intelligence Unleashed listeners will have the first full account of this revolutionary new approach to dating mating and love.