An edition of What Women Want--What Men Want (1998)

What women want--what men want

why the sexes still see love and commitment so differently

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An edition of What Women Want--What Men Want (1998)

What women want--what men want

why the sexes still see love and commitment so differently

  • 11 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading

Following the work of E. O. Wilson, Desmond Morris, and David Buss, What Women Want--What Men Want offers compelling new evidence about the real reasons behind men's and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on what men and women look for in a mate, the predicament ofmarriage in the modern world, the relation between sex and emotion, and many other hotly debated questions. Drawing upon 2000 questionnaires and 200 intimate interviews that show how our sexual psychologies affect everyday decisions, John Townsend argues against the prevailing ideologically correct belief that differences in sexual behavior are "culturally constructed." Townsend shows there aredeep-seated desires inherited from our evolutionary past that guide our actions. In a fascinating series of experiments, men and women were asked to indicate preferences for potential mates based on their attractiveness and apparent economic status...

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287

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Cover of: What Women Want--What Men Want
What Women Want--What Men Want
2007, Oxford University Press
E-book in English
Cover of: Lo que quieren las mujeres, lo que quieren los hombres
Lo que quieren las mujeres, lo que quieren los hombres
January 2000, Oxford University Press
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: What Women Want--What Men Want
What Women Want--What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently
February 5, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: What women want--what men want
What women want--what men want: why the sexes still see love and commitment so differently
1998, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: What Women Want--What Men Want
What Women Want--What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently
1998, Oxford University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.

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Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
155.3/3
Library of Congress
BF692.2 .T69 1998, BF692.2.T69 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 287 p. ;
Number of pages
287

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL696071M
Internet Archive
whatwomenwantwha00town_0
ISBN 10
0195114884
LCCN
97043547
OCLC/WorldCat
37902370
Library Thing
524763
Goodreads
1519453

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