Elaine Hatfield, Richard L Rapson, Jeanette Purvis

What's Next in Love and Sex

Psychological and Cultural Perspectives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What's Next in Love and Sex is a comprehensive examination of contemporary academic findings relating to all matters of the mind, body, and heart. Inspired by questions asked by students, the book covers cutting-edge topics so new that they are rarely addressed in current sexuality texts, providing insight into modern trends such as hookup culture, virtual pornography, robots, apps, and online dating as they evolve in this day and age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190647162
• ISBN-10: 0190647167
• Artikelnr.: 58048849

Autorenporträt

Elaine Hatfield is Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and past-president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. In 2012, she received the William James award for a Lifetime of Scientific Achievement from the Association for Psychological Science. In recent years, she has received Distinguished Scientist Awards from the University of Hawaii, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SSSS), the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, the International Academy for Intercultural Research, and the Alfred Kinsey Award from the Western Region of SSSS. She also recently received the Methodological Innovator Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Richard L. Rapson is a Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; he has also taught at Amherst College and Stanford University. He has written more than a dozen books, most of which focus on the psychological side of American life, past and present. His most recent books are Amazed by Life: Confessions of a Non-religious Believer (2004) and Magical Thinking and the Decline of America (2007). Jeanette Purvis is an adjunct lecturer in Social Psychology currently working in the private sector. Her research focuses on the intersection of modern romantic relationships and new technologies. She also works in the community as a social worker for the homeless and is a former Chandler Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* About the Authors
* Acknowledgements
* Chapter 1. The Way We Are
* Chapter 2. The Business of Love and Sex: The History of Computer
Matching from the "Happy Family Planning Service" to Tinder
* Chapter 3. The Globalization of Western Love via the Internet
* Chapter 4. Going, Going, Gone: A market View of Love and Sex
* Chapter 5. The Nature of Love: Its Ups and Downs
* Chapter 6. Sexual Behaviors
* Chapter 7. The Hookup Culture: Cultural, Social, and Gender
Influences on Casual Sex
* Chapter 8. From Monogamy to Swingers and Polyamory
* Chapter 9. Pornography: The Private Enters the Public
* Chapter 10. Sex Dolls and Robots
* Chapter 11. The End of the Affair
* Chapter 12. The Future of Love and Sex