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As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils remember." Though we might like to assume that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals, almost all murders are committed by people who, before day they kill, would seem to be to be perfectly normal. David Buss's pioneering work has made major national news before, and this provocative book will generate a storm of attention. The Murderer NEARBY is a riveting look into the dark underworld of the human psyche- an astonishing exploration of when and why we kill and what might push any one of us over the edge. A leader in the progressive field of evolutionary psychology, Buss conducted an unprecedented set of studies investigating the underlying motives and circumstances of murders, from the bizarre outlier cases of serial killers to prospects of the friendly next-door neighbor who 1 day kills his wife. Reporting on findings that are often startling and counterintuitive-the younger woman involved in a love triangle reaches a high threat of being killed-he puts forth a bold new general theory of homicide, arguing that the human psyche has evolved specialized adaptations whose function is to kill. Taking readers through the surprising twists and turns of the evolutionary logic of murder, he explains exactly when each of us is most at risk, both to be murdered and to become a murderer. His findings about the high-risk situations alone will be news making. Featuring gripping storytelling about specific murder cases-including a never used FBI file of more than 400,000 murders and an extremely detailed study of 400 murders conducted by Buss in collaboration with a forensic psychiatrist, and a pioneering investigation of homicidal fantasies where Buss discovered that 91 percent of men and 84 percent of women experienced at least one such vivid fantasy-The Murderer NEARBY will be necessary reading for individuals who have been fascinated by books on profiling, lovers of true crime and murder mysteries, as well as readers intrigued by the inner workings of the human mind. Predicated on an abundance of groundbreaking research, a leading psychologist's fascinating investigation of why we all have been "wired to kill"
