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Psychologists often paint an image of real human mating as visceral, instinctual. But that's not the whole story. In courtship and display, sexual competition and rivalry, we could also guided with what Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman call Mating Intellect - a variety of mental talents that have progressed to help us find the right partner. Mating Intellect reaches work inside our efforts to form, maintain, and end interactions. It courses us in flirtation, foreplay, copulation, finding and choosing a partner, and a great many other behaviors. In Mating Intellect Unleashed, psychologists Geher and Kaufman take listeners on a fascinating head to of the crossroads of mating and intellect, pulling on cutting-edge research on evolutionary psychology, intelligence, creativeness, personality, social psychology, neuroscience, plus more. The writers show that despite what you may read within the latest issue of Maxim, Playboy, Vogue, or GQ, physical appeal isn't the whole story. Human mating pulls on a variety of mental skills and features - from the creative use of pick-up lines, to displays of charisma, intellect, laughter, personality, and compassion. Along the way, the writers shed new light on age-old questions, such as: What role does indeed personality play in mating? Which attributes are attractive - and which traits repulse? How do people really choose mates? How do men and women deceive each other? How important is emotional intellect? Why do people create artwork - and does it have anything to do with gender? Do nice folks really finish last? Since Glenn Geher coined the word Mating Intellect in 2006, they have drawn significant amounts of media attention, which range from a Psychology Today cover story to articles in the New Scientist, The Washington Times, Huffington Post, and somewhere else. Now, in Mating Intellect Unleashed, listeners will hold the first full consideration of this cutting edge new approach to seeing, mating, and love.