The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction presents an
evolutionary history of romantic love, male-female pair-bonding, same-sex friendship, and�…

Sex and romantic love are complexly related. The various links between love and sex are
broadly surveyed, including the views of undergraduates, philosophers, psychologists�…

Provides a unique interdisciplinary approach to the science of intimate human relationships
This newly updated edition of a popular text is the first to present a full-blooded�…

Evolutionary psychology provides a powerful theoretical perspective with which to
understand the psychology of romantic attraction and relationship initiation. In seeking and�…

This chapter explores the ways in which an individual's sexual responses and his or her
sexual attributes or characteristics are implicated in the attraction process and in the initial�…

Pair-bonding involves two individuals who cohabitate in a relatively permanent fashion. The
bond is underpinned by reciprocal affect and/or pragmatic concern. In human evolution, the�…

A contemporary classic about love now completely revised and updated. From love at first
sight and infidelity to hook-up culture and “slow love,” Dr. Helen Fisher, the biological�…

The present chapter reviews these non-pair-bonding elements of the human mating
psychology, with a particular emphasis on an influential branch of psychological science�…

This article evaluates a thesis containing three interconnected propositions. First, romantic
love is a “commitment device” for motivating pair-bonding in humans. Second, pair-bonding�…

Westerners believe that love makes life worth living; that sex is a natural desire different in
kind from love; and that only cynics reduce our love life to a calculation of economic or�…