Appendix H: Bibliography — Chapter-by-Chapter

This bibliography is organized by chapter to help you locate sources relevant to specific topics as you study, write papers, or conduct further research. Within each chapter, references are listed alphabetically by first author's last name. A general section at the end collects foundational works that appear across multiple chapters.

Works are formatted in APA 7th edition. For edited volumes, the chapter author and title are listed when the specific chapter was cited.

Part I: Foundations

Chapter 1: Why Study Seduction?

Barker, M., & Langdridge, D. (Eds.). (2010). Understanding non-monogamies. Routledge.

Berscheid, E., & Regan, P. (2005). The psychology of interpersonal relationships. Prentice Hall.

Buss, D. M. (2019). Evolutionary psychology: The new science of the mind (6th ed.). Routledge.

Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), 139–167.

Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (Eds.). (2018). The SAGE handbook of qualitative research (5th ed.). SAGE.

Fine, C. (2010). Delusions of gender: How our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference. W. W. Norton.

Hatfield, E., & Sprecher, S. (1986). Mirror, mirror: The importance of looks in everyday life. State University of New York Press.

Illouz, E. (2012). Why love hurts: A sociological explanation. Polity Press.

Okafor, A., & Reyes, C. (2023). The Global Attraction Project: Design rationale and cross-cultural challenges. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54(3), 287–312.

Reis, H. T., & Sprecher, S. (Eds.). (2009). Encyclopedia of human relationships (Vols. 1–3). SAGE.

Chapter 2: A History of Courtship

Bailey, B. L. (1988). From front porch to back seat: Courtship in twentieth-century America. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Coontz, S. (2005). Marriage, a history: How love conquered marriage. Viking.

D'Emilio, J., & Freedman, E. B. (1988). Intimate matters: A history of sexuality in America. Harper & Row.

Foucault, M. (1978). The history of sexuality, Vol. 1: An introduction (R. Hurley, Trans.). Pantheon Books. (Original work published 1976)

Giddens, A. (1992). The transformation of intimacy: Sexuality, love and eroticism in modern societies. Polity Press.

Goody, J. (1983). The development of the family and marriage in Europe. Cambridge University Press.

Illouz, E. (1997). Consuming the romantic utopia: Love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism. University of California Press.

Shorter, E. (1975). The making of the modern family. Basic Books.

Stone, L. (1977). The family, sex and marriage in England 1500–1800. Harper & Row.

Zelizer, V. A. (2005). The purchase of intimacy. Princeton University Press.

Chapter 3: Research Methods in Attraction Science

Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Finkel, E. J., & Eastwick, P. W. (2008). Speed-dating. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(3), 193–197.

Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The weirdest people in the world. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2–3), 61–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0999152X

Meehl, P. E. (1978). Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46(4), 806–834.

Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), Article aac4716. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716

Ranehill, E., Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Leiberg, S., Sul, S., & Weber, R. A. (2015). Assessing the robustness of power posing: No effect on hormones and risk tolerance in a large sample of men and women. Psychological Science, 26(5), 653–656.

Rosenthal, R., & DiMatteo, M. R. (2001). Meta-analysis: Recent developments in quantitative methods for literature reviews. Annual Review of Psychology, 52(1), 59–82.

Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science, 22(11), 1359–1366.

Wagenmakers, E.-J., Wetzels, R., Borsboom, D., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2011). Why psychologists must change the way they analyze their data: The case of psi. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 426–432.

Chapter 4: The Language of Desire

Gagnon, J. H., & Simon, W. (1973). Sexual conduct: The social sources of human sexuality. Aldine.

Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. University of Chicago Press.

Plummer, K. (1995). Telling sexual stories: Power, change and social worlds. Routledge.

Simon, W., & Gagnon, J. H. (1986). Sexual scripts: Permanence and change. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 15(2), 97–120.

Tannen, D. (1990). You just don't understand: Women and men in conversation. William Morrow.

Weeks, J. (2003). Sexuality (3rd ed.). Routledge.

Chapter 5: The Ethical Compass

Cahill, A. J. (2014). Recognition, desire, and unjust sex. Hypatia, 29(2), 303–319.

MacKinnon, C. A. (1989). Toward a feminist theory of the state. Harvard University Press.

Muehlenhard, C. L., & Hollabaugh, L. C. (1988). Do women sometimes say no when they mean yes? The prevalence and correlates of women's token resistance to sex. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(5), 872–879.

Muehlenhard, C. L., Humphreys, T. P., Jozkowski, K. N., & Peterson, Z. D. (2016). The complexities of sexual consent among college students: A conceptual and empirical review. Journal of Sex Research, 53(4–5), 457–487.

Pineau, L. (1989). Date rape: A feminist analysis. Law and Philosophy, 8(2), 217–243.

Wertheimer, A. (2003). Consent to sexual relations. Cambridge University Press.

Part II: The Biology of Attraction

Chapter 6: The Neuroscience of Desire

Aron, A., Fisher, H., Mashek, D. J., Strong, G., Li, H., & Brown, L. L. (2005). Reward, motivation, and emotion systems associated with early-stage intense romantic love. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94(1), 327–337.

Bartels, A., & Zeki, S. (2004). The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love. NeuroImage, 21(3), 1155–1166.

Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Williams, K. D. (2003). Does rejection hurt? An fMRI study of social exclusion. Science, 302(5643), 290–292.

Fisher, H. E. (2004). Why we love: The nature and chemistry of romantic love. Henry Holt.

Fisher, H. E., Aron, A., & Brown, L. L. (2006). Romantic love: A mammalian brain system for mate choice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 361(1476), 2173–2186.

Insel, T. R., & Young, L. J. (2001). The neurobiology of attachment. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2(2), 129–136.

Liebowitz, M. R. (1983). The chemistry of love. Little, Brown.

Marazziti, D., Akiskal, H. S., Rossi, A., & Cassano, G. B. (1999). Alteration of the platelet serotonin transporter in romantic love. Psychological Medicine, 29(3), 741–745.

Vul, E., Harris, C., Winkielman, P., & Pashler, H. (2009). Puzzlingly high correlations in fMRI studies of emotion, personality, and social cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4(3), 274–290.

Chapter 7: Evolutionary Psychology of Mate Choice

Buss, D. M. (1989). Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12(1), 1–14.

Buss, D. M. (2016). The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating (Rev. ed.). Basic Books.

Eagly, A. H., & Wood, W. (1999). The origins of sex differences in human behavior: Evolved dispositions versus social roles. American Psychologist, 54(6), 408–423.

Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000). Sexing the body: Gender politics and the construction of sexuality. Basic Books.

Fine, C. (2017). Testosterone rex: Myths of sex, science, and society. W. W. Norton.

Gangestad, S. W., & Simpson, J. A. (2000). The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23(4), 573–587.

Trivers, R. L. (1972). Parental investment and sexual selection. In B. Campbell (Ed.), Sexual selection and the descent of man, 1871–1971 (pp. 136–179). Aldine.

Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. W. (2008). The evolutionary biology of human female sexuality. Oxford University Press.

Wood, W., & Eagly, A. H. (2002). A cross-cultural analysis of the behavior of women and men: Implications for the origins of sex differences. Psychological Bulletin, 128(5), 699–727.

Chapter 8: Physical Attractiveness

Dion, K., Berscheid, E., & Walster, E. (1972). What is beautiful is good. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 24(3), 285–290.

Etcoff, N. (1999). Survival of the prettiest: The science of beauty. Doubleday.

Gangstad, S. W., & Thornhill, R. (1997). The evolutionary psychology of extrapair sex: The role of fluctuating asymmetry. Evolution and Human Behavior, 18(2), 69–88.

Grammer, K., Fink, B., Møller, A. P., & Thornhill, R. (2003). Darwinian aesthetics: Sexual selection and the biology of beauty. Biological Reviews, 78(3), 385–407.

Langlois, J. H., Kalakanis, L., Rubenstein, A. J., Larson, A., Hallam, M., & Smoot, M. (2000). Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review. Psychological Bulletin, 126(3), 390–423.

Perrett, D. I. (2010). In your face: The new science of human attraction. Palgrave Macmillan.

Singh, D. (1993). Adaptive significance of female physical attractiveness: Role of waist-to-hip ratio. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(2), 293–307.

Zajonc, R. B. (1968). Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 9(2, Pt. 2), 1–27.

Chapter 9: Scent, Sound, and the Senses

Grammer, K., & Thornhill, R. (1994). Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual selection: The role of symmetry and averageness. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 108(3), 233–242.

Jones, B. C., & Little, A. C. (Eds.). (2003). Facial attractiveness: Evolutionary, cognitive, and social perspectives. Ablex.

Penn, D. J., & Potts, W. K. (1999). The evolution of mating preferences and major histocompatibility complex genes. American Naturalist, 153(2), 145–164.

Puts, D. A. (2010). Beauty and the beast: Mechanisms of sexual selection in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31(3), 157–175.

Saxton, T. K., Lyndon, A., Little, A. C., & Roberts, S. C. (2008). Evidence that androstenone, a putative human chemosignal, modulates women's attributions of men's attractiveness. Hormones and Behavior, 54(5), 597–601.

Wedekind, C., Seebeck, T., Bettens, F., & Paepke, A. J. (1995). MHC-dependent mate preferences in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 260(1359), 245–249.

Chapter 10: Biology-Culture Feedback Loops

Björklund, D. F., & Pellegrini, A. D. (2002). The origins of human nature: Evolutionary developmental psychology. American Psychological Association.

Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J. (1985). Culture and the evolutionary process. University of Chicago Press.

Buller, D. J. (2005). Adapting minds: Evolutionary psychology and the persistent quest for human nature. MIT Press.

Laland, K. N., & Brown, G. R. (2011). Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (2005). Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution. University of Chicago Press.

Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1992). The psychological foundations of culture. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 19–136). Oxford University Press.

Part III: The Psychology of Wanting

Chapter 11: Attachment Theory and Adult Relationships

Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment: A psychological study of the strange situation. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss: Vol. 1. Attachment. Basic Books.

Bowlby, J. (1973). Attachment and loss: Vol. 2. Separation: Anxiety and anger. Basic Books.

Bowlby, J. (1980). Attachment and loss: Vol. 3. Loss: Sadness and depression. Basic Books.

Brennan, K. A., Clark, C. L., & Shaver, P. R. (1998). Self-report measurement of adult attachment: An integrative overview. In J. A. Simpson & W. S. Rholes (Eds.), Attachment theory and close relationships (pp. 46–76). Guilford Press.

Fraley, R. C., Waller, N. G., & Brennan, K. A. (2000). An item response theory analysis of self-report measures of adult attachment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2), 350–365.

Hazan, C., & Shaver, P. (1987). Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52(3), 511–524.

Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2007). Attachment in adulthood: Structure, dynamics, and change. Guilford Press.

Simpson, J. A., & Rholes, W. S. (Eds.). (1998). Attachment theory and close relationships. Guilford Press.

Waters, E., Merrick, S., Treboux, D., Crowell, J., & Albersheim, L. (2000). Attachment security in infancy and early adulthood: A twenty-year longitudinal study. Child Development, 71(3), 684–689.

Chapter 12: Cognitive Biases in Attraction

Dutton, D. G., & Aron, A. P. (1974). Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30(4), 510–517.

Eastwick, P. W., & Finkel, E. J. (2008). Sex differences in mate preferences revisited: Do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(2), 245–264.

Finkel, E. J., Eastwick, P. W., & Matthews, J. (2007). Speed-dating as an invaluable tool for studying romantic attraction: A methodological primer. Personal Relationships, 14(1), 149–166.

Gilovich, T. (1991). How we know what isn't so: The fallibility of human reason in everyday life. Free Press.

Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., & Griffin, D. W. (1996). The benefits of positive illusions: Idealization and the construction of satisfaction in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(1), 79–98.

Nisbett, R. E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological Review, 84(3), 231–259.

Chapter 13: Self-Esteem and Perceived Desirability

Baumeister, R. F., & Leary, M. R. (1995). The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 117(3), 497–529.

Joiner, T. E., & Metalsky, G. I. (2001). Excessive reassurance-seeking: Delineating a risk factor involved in the development of depressive symptoms. Psychological Science, 12(5), 371–378.

Leary, M. R., Tambor, E. S., Terdal, S. K., & Downs, D. L. (1995). Self-esteem as an interpersonal monitor: The sociometer hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68(3), 518–530.

Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton University Press.

Swann, W. B., Jr. (1990). To be adored or to be known? The interplay of self-enhancement and self-verification. In E. T. Higgins & R. M. Sorrentino (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition (Vol. 2, pp. 408–448). Guilford Press.

Chapter 14: The Psychology of Rejection

DeWall, C. N., MacDonald, G., Webster, G. D., Masten, C. L., Baumeister, R. F., Powell, C., Combs, D., Schurtz, D. R., Stillman, T. F., Tice, D. M., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2010). Acetaminophen reduces social pain: Behavioral and neural evidence. Psychological Science, 21(7), 931–937.

Downey, G., & Feldman, S. I. (1996). Implications of rejection sensitivity for intimate relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(6), 1327–1343.

Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). The pain of social disconnection: Examining the shared neural underpinnings of physical and social pain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 13(6), 421–434.

MacDonald, G., & Leary, M. R. (2005). Why does social exclusion hurt? The relationship between social and physical pain. Psychological Bulletin, 131(2), 202–223.

Twenge, J. M., Baumeister, R. F., DeWall, C. N., Ciarocco, N. J., & Bartels, J. M. (2007). Social exclusion decreases prosocial behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(1), 56–66.

Williams, K. D. (2007). Ostracism. Annual Review of Psychology, 58(1), 425–452.

Chapter 15: Personality and Attraction

Botwin, M. D., Buss, D. M., & Shackelford, T. K. (1997). Personality and mate preferences: Five factors in mate selection and marital satisfaction. Journal of Personality, 65(1), 107–136.

John, O. P., Naumann, L. P., & Soto, C. J. (2008). Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy. In O. P. John, R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (3rd ed., pp. 114–158). Guilford Press.

Nettle, D. (2006). The evolution of personality variation in humans and other animals. American Psychologist, 61(6), 622–631.

Snyder, M. (1987). Public appearances/private realities: The psychology of self-monitoring. W. H. Freeman.

Weisberg, Y. J., DeYoung, C. G., & Hirsh, J. B. (2011). Gender differences in personality across the ten aspects of the Big Five. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, Article 178.

Chapter 16: Motivation and Courtship Behavior

Elliot, A. J., & Thrash, T. M. (2002). Approach-avoidance motivation in personality: Approach and avoidance temperaments and goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(5), 804–818.

Impett, E. A., Gere, J., Kogan, A., Gordon, A. M., & Keltner, D. (2014). How sacrifice impacts the giver and the recipient: Insights from approach-avoidance motivational theory. Journal of Personality, 82(5), 390–401.

Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., MacDonald, G., & Ellsworth, P. C. (1998). Through the looking glass darkly? When self-doubts turn into relationship insecurities. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(6), 1459–1480.

Schnyder, N., Maercker, A., & Büchi, S. (2001). Grief reactions and post-traumatic stress disorder in family members of accident victims. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 50(5), 263–268.

Part IV: Communication and Interaction

Chapter 17: Verbal Communication and Linguistic Style Matching

Altman, I., & Taylor, D. A. (1973). Social penetration: The development of interpersonal relationships. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Collins, N. L., & Miller, L. C. (1994). Self-disclosure and liking: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 116(3), 457–475.

Ireland, M. E., Slatcher, R. B., Eastwick, P. W., Scissors, L. E., Finkel, E. J., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2011). Language style matching predicts relationship initiation and stability. Psychological Science, 22(1), 39–44.

Jourard, S. M. (1971). The transparent self (Rev. ed.). Van Nostrand.

Pennebaker, J. W. (2011). The secret life of pronouns: What our words say about us. Bloomsbury Press.

Sprecher, S. (1987). The effects of self-disclosure given and received on affection for an intimate partner and stability of the relationship. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 4(2), 115–127.

Chapter 18: Nonverbal Communication

Ekman, P. (1992). Are there basic emotions? Psychological Review, 99(3), 550–553.

Hall, E. T. (1966). The hidden dimension. Doubleday.

Hall, J. A., Coats, E. J., & LeBeau, L. S. (2005). Nonverbal behavior and the vertical dimension of social relations: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 131(6), 898–924.

Henley, N. M. (1977). Body politics: Power, sex, and nonverbal communication. Prentice Hall.

Knapp, M. L., Hall, J. A., & Horgan, T. G. (2014). Nonverbal communication in human interaction (8th ed.). Wadsworth.

Mehrabian, A. (1971). Silent messages. Wadsworth.

Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. (1989). Human ethology. Aldine de Gruyter.

Henningsen, D. D. (2004). Flirting with meaning: An examination of miscommunication in flirting interactions. Sex Roles, 50(7–8), 481–489.

Koeppel, L. B., Montagne-Miller, Y., O'Hair, D., & Cody, M. J. (1993). Friendly? Flirting? Wrong? In P. J. Kalbfleisch (Ed.), Interpersonal communication: Evolving interpersonal relationships (pp. 13–32). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Okafor, A., Reyes, C., & colleagues. (2024). Behavioral coding of flirtation in six countries: Preliminary findings from the Global Attraction Project. Cross-Cultural Research, 58(1), 45–71.

Whitty, M. T. (2004). Cyber-flirting: An examination of men's and women's flirting behaviour both offline and on the Internet. Behaviour & Information Technology, 23(2), 115–126.

Chapter 20: Digital Communication and Dating Apps

Finkel, E. J., Eastwick, P. W., Karney, B. R., Reis, H. T., & Sprecher, S. (2012). Online dating: A critical analysis from the perspective of psychological science. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13(1), 3–66.

Hobbs, M., Owen, S., & Gerber, L. (2017). Liquid love? Dating apps, sex, relationships and the digital transformation of intimacy. Journal of Sociology, 53(2), 271–284.

Orr, A. (2004). Meeting, mating, and cheating: Sex, love, and the new world of online dating. Reuters Prentice Hall.

Schwartz, B. (2004). The paradox of choice: Why more is less. Ecco.

Sumter, S. R., Vandenbosch, L., & Ligtenberg, L. (2017). Love me Tinder: Untangling emerging adults' motivations for using the dating application Tinder. Telematics and Informatics, 34(1), 67–78.

Tyson, G., Perta, V. C., Haddadi, H., & Seto, M. C. (2016). A first look at user activity on Tinder. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01rainbow

Ward, J. (2017). What are you doing on Tinder? Impression management on a matchmaking mobile app. Information, Communication & Society, 20(11), 1644–1659.

Chapter 21: The Role of Humor

Greengross, G., & Miller, G. F. (2011). Humor ability reveals intelligence, predicts mating success, and is higher in males. Intelligence, 39(4), 188–192.

Martin, R. A. (2007). The psychology of humor: An integrative approach. Academic Press.

McGee, E., & Shevlin, M. (2009). Effect of humor on interpersonal attraction and mate selection. Journal of Psychology, 143(1), 67–77.

Sprecher, S., & Regan, P. C. (2002). Liking some things (in some people) more than others: Partner preferences in romantic relationships and friendships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 19(4), 463–481.

Wilbur, C. J., & Campbell, L. (2011). Humor in romantic contexts: Do men participate and women evaluate? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(7), 918–929.

Chapter 22: Silence, Space, and Absence

Hall, E. T. (1976). Beyond culture. Doubleday.

Jaworski, A. (1993). The power of silence: Social and pragmatic perspectives. SAGE.

Okafor, A., Reyes, C., & colleagues. (2024). The meaning of silence: Cross-cultural variation in comfort with quiet in romantic dyadic interactions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 48(2), 103–121.

Tannen, D. (1990). You just don't understand: Women and men in conversation. William Morrow.

Chapter 23: Gender, Sexuality, and Scripts

Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge.

Gagnon, J. H., & Simon, W. (1973). Sexual conduct: The social sources of human sexuality. Aldine.

Kimmel, M. S. (2008). Guyland: The perilous world where boys become men. Harper Collins.

Messner, M. A. (2002). Taking the field: Women, men, and sports. University of Minnesota Press.

Rudman, L. A., & Glick, P. (2008). The social psychology of gender: How power and intimacy shape gender relations. Guilford Press.

Simon, W., & Gagnon, J. H. (1986). Sexual scripts: Permanence and change. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 15(2), 97–120.

West, C., & Zimmerman, D. H. (1987). Doing gender. Gender & Society, 1(2), 125–151.

Chapter 24: LGBTQ+ Courtship and Desire

Diamond, L. M. (2008). Sexual fluidity: Understanding women's love and desire. Harvard University Press.

Diamond, L. M. (2012). The desire disorder in research on sexual orientation in women: Contributions of dynamical systems theory. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41(1), 73–83.

Herek, G. M. (2007). Confronting sexual stigma and prejudice: Theory and practice. Journal of Social Issues, 63(4), 905–925.

Rust, P. C. (1993). "Coming out" in the age of social constructionism: Sexual identity formation among lesbian and bisexual women. Gender & Society, 7(1), 50–77.

Ward, J. (2015). Not gay: Sex between straight white men. NYU Press.

Worthington, R. L., Savoy, H. B., Dillon, F. R., & Vernaglia, E. R. (2002). Heterosexual identity development: A multidimensional model of individual and social identity. The Counseling Psychologist, 30(4), 496–531.

Chapter 25: Race, Ethnicity, and Desire

Collins, P. H. (2004). Black sexual politics: African Americans, gender, and the new racism. Routledge.

Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299.

Fiore, A. T., & Donath, J. S. (2005). Homophily in online dating: When do you like someone like yourself? In CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1371–1374). ACM.

Okafor, A., Reyes, C., & colleagues. (2024). Racial preference patterns in a synthetic 50,000-profile dating dataset: Methodological and ethical reflections. Race and Social Problems, 16(1), 22–41.

Robinson, R. K. (2008). Structural dimensions of romantic preferences. Fordham Law Review, 76(6), 2787–2819.

Rudder, C. (2014). Dataclysm: Who we are (when we think no one's looking). Crown.

Yancey, G. (2007). Interracial contact and social change. Lynne Rienner.

Chapter 26: Class, Status, and Mate Value

Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste (R. Nice, Trans.). Harvard University Press. (Original work published 1979)

Illouz, E. (1997). Consuming the romantic utopia: Love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism. University of California Press.

Schwartz, C. R. (2013). Trends and variation in assortative mating: Causes and consequences. Annual Review of Sociology, 39(1), 451–470.

Schwartz, C. R., & Mare, R. D. (2005). Trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003. Demography, 42(4), 621–646.

Veblen, T. (1899). The theory of the leisure class: An economic study of institutions. Macmillan.

Willoughby, B. J., Carroll, J. S., Vitas, J. M., & Hill, L. M. (2012). When are you getting married? The intergenerational transmission of attitudes regarding marital timing and marital importance. Journal of Family Issues, 33(2), 223–245.

Chapter 27: Culture, Religion, and Courtship

Cherlin, A. J. (2010). The marriage-go-round: The state of marriage and the family in America today. Vintage.

Coontz, S. (2005). Marriage, a history: How love conquered marriage. Viking.

Haffner, D. W. (Ed.). (1995). Facing facts: Sexual health for America's adolescents. SIECUS.

Hirsch, J. S., & Wardlow, H. (Eds.). (2006). Modern loves: The anthropology of romantic courtship and companionate marriage. University of Michigan Press.

Jankowiak, W. R. (Ed.). (2008). Intimacies: Love and sex across cultures. Columbia University Press.

Stevenson, B., & Wolfers, J. (2007). Marriage and divorce: Changes and their driving forces. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(2), 27–52.

Chapter 28: Age, Life Stage, and Desire

Carstensen, L. L. (1992). Social and emotional patterns in adulthood: Support for socioemotional selectivity theory. Psychology and Aging, 7(3), 331–338.

Carstensen, L. L., Isaacowitz, D. M., & Charles, S. T. (1999). Taking time seriously: A theory of socioemotional selectivity. American Psychologist, 54(3), 165–181.

Levenson, R. W., Carstensen, L. L., & Gottman, J. M. (1993). Long-term marriage: Age, gender, and satisfaction. Psychology and Aging, 8(2), 301–313.

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Part VI: The Dark Side

Chapter 29: The Seduction Industry

Almog, R., & Kaplan, D. (2017). The nerd and his discontent: The seduction community and the logic of the game as a geeky solution to the challenges of young masculinity. Men and Masculinities, 20(1), 27–48.

Lyons, M., Marcinkowska, U. M., Watkins, C. D., & Lynch, A. (2015). The dark triad and sexual strategy in humans. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44(1), 15–20.

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Chapter 30: Manipulation, Coercion, and Control

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Chapter 31: Objectification and the Male Gaze

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Chapter 32: Rejection, Harassment, and Violence

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Chapter 33: Technology and Harm

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Part VII: Applied Contexts

Chapter 34: Attraction in the Workplace

Anderson, C., & Kilduff, G. J. (2009). Why do dominant personalities attain influence in face-to-face groups? The competence-signaling effects of trait dominance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(2), 491–503.

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Chapter 35: Media Representations of Attraction

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Signorielli, N. (2009). Minorities representation in prime time: 2000 to 2008. Communication Research Reports, 26(4), 323–336.

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Chapter 36: Hookup Culture — The Debate

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Chapter 37: Love, Attachment, and Long-Term Relationships

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Chapter 38: The Future of Courtship

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Part VIII: Integration and Analysis

Chapter 39: An Integrated Model of Attraction

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Chapter 40: Critical Thinking and Evaluating Research

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Chapter 41: Personal Reflection and Growth

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Chapter 42: Open Questions and Future Directions

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Foundational Works Cited Across Multiple Chapters

The following works are cited in three or more chapters and are listed here as a consolidated reference for their centrality to the text.

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