Lust: What We Know about Human Sexual Desire (SAGE Series on Close Relationships)

Regan, Pamela C.; Berscheid, Ellen S.

ISBN 10: 0761917934 / ISBN 13: 9780761917939

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lust: What We Know about Human Sexual Desire (SAGE Series on Close Relationships)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761917934
• ISBN 13: 9780761917939
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 9 ounces

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Synopsis

Lust is a powerful feeling that often influences our lives and relationships. Pamela C. Regan and Ellen Berscheid have written an accessible, interdisciplinary book that reviews theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire, the individual physical and mental factors of the sexual desire, the various partner characteristics that incite sexual desire, and the association between sexual desire and interpersonal, relational events and experiences. The book concludes with an examination of the personal, interpersonal, and societal implications of sexual desire. Throughout, the authors draw on findings from their own body of research on sexual desire and romantic attraction, as well as on an extensive review of the relevant social, behavioral, and medical science literatures.

About the Author

Pamela Regan is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Minnesota and her undergraduate degree in English from Williams College. Her research interests are in the areas of close relationships and human sexuality, with an emphasis on passionate love, sexual desire, and mate preference. She has published more than 100 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews (and has given over 75 professional presentations) on the dynamics of sex, love, and human mating, and she is the author of Close Relationships (Routledge, 2011), the co-author (with Ellen Berscheid) of The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships (Pearson, 2005) and Lust: What We Know About Human Sexual Desire (Sage, 1999), and the co-author (with Bruce King) of Human Sexuality Today (Pearson, 2014). In 2007, she was honored with the Outstanding Professor Award by her university for excellence in instruction and professional achievement.