SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN SEXUALITY
Roy Baumeister, Ed.
Psychology Press, 2001
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers should be familiar with modern social psychological research on sexuality and gender differences in sexuality in erotic roles, first sexual experiences, and in sexual receptivity. They should know some of the basics of Sexual Strategies Theory, the application of evolutionary psychology to sexuality. They should know Billy and Udry's work on adolescent friendship and effects on sexuality. Readers should be familiar with Bem's research on a developmental theory of sexual orientation, the relationship of homophobia and sexual arousal, and the psychological analyses of rapists and of date rape. They should become familiar with the relationship of office status and sexuality at work and theories of infidelity and of jealousy.
This book brings together, for the first time, many of the major social psychological perspectives on sexuality, which are usually studied from a biological or sociological perspective. It contains papers by many of the most eminent authorities, such as Elaine Hatfield, John Billy and J. Richard Udry, Baumeister, David Buss, Daryl Bem and others.
Roy Baumeister, Ph.D., is the Elsie Smith Chair of Liberal Arts at Case Western University. His main contributions (among his 200-some papers) are in social psychology, self-esteem, and decision-making under stress, sexuality and impression formation.
16 CE credits; 354 pages
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