Social Science Dating

Discover how to master the art of conversation, effortlessly engage and deeply connect with women and dramatically improve your dating life! Tired of freezing up when in close proximity to an attractive woman you'd like to talk to? Do you often run out of things to say when talking with a woman, only to watch her slowly lose interest?

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.

Maar wie doet er eigenlijk precies aan online daten, hoe daten ze, en welke lessen kunnen we trekken uit hun ervaringen? Online dating: the good, the bad and the ugly brengt het (liefdes)leven van de online dater in kaart. Maar ook voor zij die zich liever niet op de onlinehuwelijksmarkt begeven, is het een must-read: dit boek bevat namelijk een schat aan informatie over hoe relaties in de eenentwintigste eeuw tot stand komen, en hoe je als ouder kunt omgaan met kinderen die net in de dating scene duiken.

Es ist kompliziert - aber muss es das wirklich sein? Die mehrfach ausgezeichnete Journalistin Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer geht im Hörbuch "Der Gender-Dating-Gap" und die Liebe der Frage nach, warum es moderne Frauen so schwer haben, einen Partner auf Augenhöhe zu finden. Intelligent, selbstbewusst und erfolgreich: Warum sind ausgerechnet diese Frauen so oft single? Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer beschreibt humorvoll und pointiert die goldenen Regeln der Dating-Welt, missglückte Annäherungen und den Kampf mit den eigenen Ansprüchen.

His Side brings previously silenced straight male perspectives to light with in-person interviews by psychologist and men's rights advocate Helen Smith, author of Men on Strike. These interviews are first-person accounts of how young, middle-aged, and older men experience dating apps, marriage, and work while living in a world that no longer values masculine traits and desires.

Boldly go where no geek has gone before! You keep your action figures in their original packaging. Your closets are full of officially licensed Star Wars merchandise. You’re hooked on Elder Scrolls and Metal Gear, but now you’ve discovered an even bigger obsession: the new girl who just moved in down the hall. What’s a geek to do? Take some tips from The Geek’s Guide to Dating. This hilarious primer is jam-packed with cheat codes, walkthroughs, and power-ups for navigating the perils and pitfalls of your love life with ease.

Embarking on the dating scene can be a fun though sometimes daunting prospect for any single woman. But for the more than 10 million single women in the U.S. with children at home, dating is a much more complicated matter. Whether uncoupled through divorce or death, single moms face a wide range of questions: When will I be ready to date and how do I start? When-and what-should I tell the kids? What happens if I love the guy and the kids hate him?

Sixteen-year-old Miranda Merchant is great at science and not so great with boys. After major drama with her boyfriend and (now ex) best friend, she's happy to spend the summer on small, mysterious Selkie Island, helping her mother sort out her late grandmother's estate. There Miranda finds new friends and an island with a mysterious, mystical history, presenting her with facts her logical, scientific mind can't make sense of. She also meets Leo, who challenges everything she thought she knew.

Relationship expert Otto Haugland cleverly categorizes the different types of daters, from the Scud Missile dater to the Velcro dater. Haugland's blueprint for overcoming the barriers in the dating world are presented in an honest, down-to-earth style.

From the minds that brought you The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook comes a wickedly funny send-up of the most dangerous trend ever to strike love, romance, and relationships—sexual correctness. In the be-sensitive-or-else era, everyone needs a guide to the essential don'ts and don'ts of sexual behavior and courtship. If a man compliments his date on her dress, should she go to the police? If a businesswoman licks her lips during a meeting, should she be fired without pay? Is a girlfriend just another unpaid sex worker?