by Laura | Feb 18, 2011
Drawing on a wealth of research spanning 10,000 people and 37 cultures, David Buss has written a compelling study of the evolutionary origins of human sexual behavior. Men and women bring very different strategies to the challenge of finding and keeping a mate, all of...
by Laura | Feb 17, 2011
In the face of a persistently high divorce rate, climbing rates of single-parenthood and unmarried cohabitation, and some skepticism about whether marriage might be an outdated institution, Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher have assembled a thoughtful and...
by Laura | Feb 17, 2011
In Nudge, Richard Thaler, a behavioral economics professor, and Cass Sunstein, a prominent legal scholar, make a case for what they call “libertarian paternalism”—a term they concede is off-putting. But it captures the delicate line they walk in a...
by Laura | Feb 15, 2011
As someone who knows first hand that there are dozens of books out there on this topic, I can say this one deserves a close look. Drawing on the latest research in social psychology—and on three years of “undercover” work at used car lots, fundraising...
by Laura | Feb 14, 2011
At first glance I thought this book looked like one of hundreds of books out there promising to guide you to greater happiness and fulfillment. Early on Daniel Gilbert makes it clear that if you’re looking for that kind of a book you’ll have to move to the...
