Love and Attraction

An International Conference

Mark Cook, Glenn Wilson, Mark Cook, Glenn Wilson

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780080222349
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483279725
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Regional Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Love and Attraction is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Love and Attraction. This book is organized into 12 parts encompassing 78 chapters that cover various aspects of the subjects, including friendship, intimacy, and sexuality. The introductory parts deal with the psychological aspects of physical attractiveness, non-verbal intimacy, attraction, and friendship. The subsequent parts examine the geographical difference in mate selection, marital relations, and romantic love. These chapters also look into the structural features of personality, behavior, and romantic love. These topics are followed by discussions of exchange theory applications to love and attraction; the social psychology of human sexuality; relationship between sexual behavior and society; and sex therapy. The final parts are devoted to other sex related topics, including sex therapy, erotica, arousal, child sexuality, and pedophilia. This book will prove useful to psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and other academic and clinical workers.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Love and Attraction
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• PART I: PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS
• PART II: NON-VERBAL INTIMACY, ATTRACTION AND FRIENDSHIP
• PART III: MATE SELECTION
• PART IV: MARITAL RELATIONS
• PART V: ROMANTIC LOVE
• PART VI: EXCHANGE THEORY APPLICATIONS TO LOVE AND ATTRACTION
• PART VII: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
• PART VIII: SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIETY
• PART IX: SEX THERAPY
• PART X: EROTICA AND AROUSAL
• PART XI: INFANT AND CHILD SEXUALITY
• PART XII: PEDOPHILIA
• AUTHOR INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX