About the Authors

The Science of Seduction was drafted with AI assistance and is published by DataField.Dev as a free, open textbook. There is no team of credentialed human authors behind it, and it has not been formally peer reviewed or classroom-tested. Its commitment to taking multiple frameworks seriously rather than privileging any single perspective — the kind of methodological disagreement dramatized by Drs. Okafor and Reyes in the text itself — is a design choice for the book, not the product of a particular author team.

The composite student characters (Nadia, Sam, and Jordan) are fictional, written for this book to illustrate the experiences of college-age adults navigating attraction, identity, and relationships. They were not developed from interviews or focus groups, and they should be read as illustrations rather than as evidence about real students.

The Swipe Right Dataset is synthetic, generated to reflect documented patterns in the dating app literature while protecting privacy and avoiding the misuse of real user data.

Because the book was drafted with AI assistance, its summaries of research deserve the same critical reading the book asks you to bring to every study. Instructors and readers who find an error, an outdated finding, or a framing that needs work are warmly invited to send corrections and suggestions.

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