David Buss
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David Buss is an American psychologist and one of the founders of the field of **evolutionary psychology**. He is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, best known for his research on human mating strategies, including mate selection, infidelity, jealousy, and mate retention. Buss is also the author of influential books such as *The Evolution of Desire* and *Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind*.
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Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind💬 Mentioned
…textbook on evolutionary psychology with broad coverage of human behavior topics
“And then, even more broadly, I have a textbook called Evolutionary Psychology, The New Science of the Mind, which is in its sixth edition right now, and it's the most widely used textbook in evolutionary psychology around North America and Europe, and actually, it's been translated even into Arabic and other countries. So that deals somewhat with mating, but also deals with survival problems or evolved fears and phobias, issues about kin and family, extended family, friendships, social hierarchies, status hierarchies, warfare, and other topics.”
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The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating💬 Mentioned
…book on human mating strategies attraction and mate retention tactics
“My previous book, so my first book, which I've had the good fortune to be able to revise a couple times, deals more broadly with human mating strategies. It's called The Evolution of Desire Strategies of Human Mating. It gives people a broad overview of what people want in a mate, tactics of attraction, tactics of mate retention, and so forth throughout the whole mating process, serial mating, causes of divorce, and so forth.”
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When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault💬 Mentioned
…book on sexual conflict deception harassment and assault in mating
“Sure. Okay, so, well, my most recent book is called When Men Behave Badly, The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault. And that book deals with conflict between the sexes, sexual conflict. And so, it deals with them both in what I call mating market conflicts. Some of the topics we've been talking about, deception in internet dating and things like that. Second is conflict that occurs within mating relationships of the sort that we've been talking about as well. Financial infidelity, emotional infidelity, sexual infidelity, coping with conflict within a relationship. And I actually have some suggestions for strategies for coping with conflict within a relationship. Coping in the after, dealing with the aftermath of breakups.”
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