Love and Attraction

Love and Attraction is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Love and Attraction. This book is organized into 12 parts encompassing 78 chapters that cover various aspects of the subjects, including friendship, intimacy, and sexuality.The introductory parts deal with the psychological aspects of physical attractiveness, non-verbal intimacy, attraction, and friendship. The subsequent parts examine the geographical difference in mate selection, marital relations, and romantic love. These chapters also look into the structural features of personality, behavior, and romantic love. These topics are followed by discussions of exchange theory applications to love and attraction; the social psychology of human sexuality; relationship between sexual behavior and society; and sex therapy. The final parts are devoted to other sex related topics, including sex therapy, erotica, arousal, child sexuality, and pedophilia.This book will prove useful to psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and other academic and clinical workers.

PrefaceList of ContributorsI. Physical Attractiveness Physical Attractiveness and Interpersonal Attraction The Ubiquity of Physical Appearance as a Determinant of Social Relationships Women's Somatic Preferences The Psychological Significance of Facial Deformity Body-Behavior Problems: A Conceptualization The Impact of Physical Attractiveness on an Employment Decision Physical Attractiveness and its Relationship to Self-Esteem: Preliminary Findings The Integration of Physical and Social Information in Social Perception The Effects of Attractiveness, Feature Saliency and Liking on Memory for Faces The Physically Attractive Woman at Age 40: Precursors in Adolescent Personality and Adult Correlates from a Longitudinal StudyII. Non-Verbal Intimacy, Attraction and Friendship Mammalian Pheromones - Sense or Nonsense? Pupillary Dilation as a Sexual Signal and its Links with Adolescence Rapport and Timeless Moments: a Micro-Dissection Regulation of Intimacy in Social Encounters: The Effects of Sex of Interactants and Information About Attitude Similarity Tactical Self-Presentation and Interpersonal Attraction Blueprint for a Social Psychological Theory of Loneliness Heterosexual Attraction and Attributional Processes in Fear-Producing Situations When "I Disagree" means "I will like you Longer": Attributions of Causality in Acquaintance Behavioral and Sociometric Indices of Friendship in Children Non-Verbal Expressions of Intimacy in Children Affiliation and Attraction in Field SettingsIII. Mate Selection The Social Geography of Marriage Marital Choice: Matching or Complementation? A Test of Toman's Theory of Mate Selection Mate Selection and the Lady Role Interreligious Courtship in Northern Ireland Mate Selection in the Netherlands Mate Selection: A Transactional Analysis Model Mate Selection in the Absence of Face-To-Face RelationsIV. Marital Relations Longitudinal Study of Marital Success and Failure Unmarried Cohabitation in Sweden The Study of Jealousy as a Dispositional Characteristic The Emotional Responses of Husbands to Suicide Attempts by their WivesV. Romantic Love Structural Features of the Romantic Love Relationship Personality and Behavioral Correlates of Romantic Love Male-Female Similarities and Differences in Conceptualizing Love The Kinetic-Potential Theory of Love Changing Family Structure and Conjugal Love: the Case of the Akan of Ghana Romantic Love as a Basis for Marriage The "Many-Splendoured Thing" in Transition or "The Agony and the Ecstasy" Revisited Homeric LoveVI. Exchange Theory Applications to Love And Attraction Social Exchange in Intimate Relationships Exchange and Liking The Implications of Exchange Orientation on the Dyadic Functioning of Heterosexual Cohabitors Differential Factors in Need for LoveVII. The Social Psychology of Human Sexuality Sexual Stimulation and Sociosexual Behaviors Determinants of Contraceptive Values and Practices Equity and Extramarital Sex Equity and Premarital SexVIII. Sexual Behavior and Society Sex, Society and the Individual Contemporary American Sex Shocks: Implications for Love, Commitment and Relationships The Sources of Sexual Information of a Sample of Canadian Adolescents Changes in Courtship and Cohabitation in Canada, 1968-1977 Birth Order and Premarital Sexual Permissiveness The Social Origins of Some Sexual Taboos Sexual Behavior, Personality and Hormonal Characteristics of Heterosexual, Homosexual and Bisexual Men Personality Attributes of the Average Rubber Fetishist Health-Care Practitioners and the Seductive Hospitalized Person Sexual Behavior and the Theory of Psychological Reversals Micropenis: Use of a Prosthetic Penis in a 9-year-old BoyIX. Sex Therapy The Effects of Drugs on Sexual Function The Use of Film or Manual for Anorgasmic Women The Sexual-Enhancement Week-End Workshop: Assets and Limitations Meditative Treatment for Erectile Dysfunction Group Therapy for Increasing the Sexual Interest of Female Patients and their Partners Saboteurs of Sex Therapy Ways of Coping with SabotageX. Erotica and Arousal Male-Female Differences in Responses to Erotica Erotic Arousal in Males and Females as Perceived by their Respective Same- and Opposite-Sex Peers Dimensions of Masculinity and Female Reactions to Male Nudity Rock and Roll: Arousal Music or a Reflection of Changing MoresXI. Infant and Child Sexuality Infant and Child Sexuality: Capacity and Experience Processes in Sexual Development Pedophilia: The Consequences for the Child The Sexual Rights of Children: Implications of a Radical PerspectiveXII. Pedophilia The Participating Victim: A Study of Sexual Offences Against Pre-Pubertal Boys Some Meanings of Children for Pedophiles A Social Skills Training Program with Sex Offenders Images of PedophiliaAuthor IndexSubject Index