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The Dangerous Passion
Why Jealousy Is As Necessary As Love and Sex
by David M. Buss
ISBN: 0684850818
ISBN-13: 9780684850818
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Buss's distillation of psychological and anthropological research provides insight into the role that jealousy plays in the ever-precarious arena of human relationships.
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"THE DANGEROUS PASSION is full of anecdotal research on mating and dating that I found myself bringing up in conversation for weeks....Whether these studies are accurate or not, they tell us far more about human nature today than predictable evolutionary theories..." -- Courtney Weaver
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 2000
Size: 6.75 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.15 pounds
Pages: 258
Publisher's Notes
The author of The Evolution of Desire reveals that jealousy is actually the evolutionary glue that holds couples together. Original.
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