The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is As Necessary As Love and Sex pdf

David Michael Buss (né le 14 avril 1953) est un psychologue évolutionniste américain de l'Université du Texas à Austin, qui étudie les différences sexuelles humaines dans la sélection des partenaires. Il est considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de la psychologie évolutionniste. Buss a obtenu son doctorat en psychologie à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley en 1981. Avant de devenir professeur à l'Université du Texas, il a été professeur adjoint pendant quatre ans à l'Université de Harvard et professeur à l'Université du Michigan pendant onze ans. Les principaux sujets de ses recherches comprennent les stratégies d'accouplement masculin, les conflits entre les sexes, le statut social, la réputation sociale, le prestige, l'émotion de la jalousie, l'homicide, les défenses anti-homicide et, plus récemment, le harcèlement. Tous ces éléments sont abordés dans une perspective évolutive. Buss est l'auteur de plus de 200 articles scientifiques et a remporté de nombreux prix, dont un APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology en 1988 et un APA G. Stanley Hall Lectureship en 1990. Il est également l'auteur de Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, dont la quatrième édition est sortie en 2011. En 2005, Buss a édité un volume de référence, The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Son dernier livre est When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault. Buss est impliqué dans de vastes collaborations de recherche interculturelles et des conférences aux États-Unis.

The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is As Necessary As Love and Sex pdf par David Michael Buss

Why do men and women cheat on each other? How do men really feel when their partners have sex with other men? What worries women more -- men who turn to other women for love or men who simply want sexual variety in their lives? Can the jealousy husbands and wives experience over real or imagined infidelities be cured? Should it be? In this surprising and engaging exploration of men's and women's darker passions, David Buss, acclaimed author of "The Evolution of Desire," reveals that both men and women are actually designed for jealousy. Drawing on experiments, surveys, and interviews conducted in thirty-seven countries on six continents, as well as insights from recent discoveries in biology, anthropology, and psychology, Buss discovers that the evolutionary origins of our sexual desires still shape our passions today. According to Buss, more men than women want to have sex with multiple partners. Furthermore, women who cheat on their husbands do so when they are most likely to conceive, but have sex with their spouses when they are least likely to conceive. These findings show that evolutionary tendencies to acquire better genes through different partners still lurk beneath modern sexual behavior. To counteract these desires to stray -- and to strengthen the bonds between partners -- jealousy evolved as an early detection system of infidelity in the ancient and mysterious ritual of mating. Buss takes us on a fascinating journey through many cultures, from pre-historic to the present, to show the profound evolutionary effect jealousy has had on all of us. Only with a healthy balance of jealousy and trust can we be certain of a mate's commitment, devotion, and true love.