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    Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Brains, and Behavior---The Science Behind Sex, Love and Attraction
    Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Brains, and Behavior---The Science Behind Sex, Love and Attraction
    Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Brains, and Behavior---The Science Behind Sex, Love and Attraction
    Audiobook8 hours

    Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Brains, and Behavior---The Science Behind Sex, Love and Attraction

    Written by Jena Pincott

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Cosmopolitan meets Scientific American in this entertaining and informative question-and-answer book on human attraction. Based on the latest studies in science, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? answers more than 100 wild, weird, and very pressing questions, including:

    -Why do some men smell better to you than others?

    -Are good dancers also good in bed?

    -Why are more women than men bisexual?

    -Can your genes make you adulterous?

    -What can you tell about your date by looking at his or her hands?

    -Why aren't there more male muses?

    -Why do blondes seem to attract the most attention from men?

    All of these questions have answers that are based in science, and author Jena Pincott explains the reasons for love and attraction, and to what extent our dating and mating lives are controlled by urges and instincts. Organized into three sections-Behaviors, Bodies, and Brains-Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? provides useful, funny, and accessible answers to these questions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 7, 2008
    ISBN9781400178254
    Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Brains, and Behavior---The Science Behind Sex, Love and Attraction
    Author

    Jena Pincott

    Jena Pincott is a science writer and the author of eight books, including Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies: The Surprising Science of Pregnancy and Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes: The Science of Love, Sex & Attraction. Her titles have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, and Library Journal and have been translated in 18 languages. A writer with a background in biology, she has contributed to Scientific American, Psychology Today, Nautilus, The Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Brain World, among other publications. She has appeared on CBS The Early Show, Good Morning America, Big Think, Science Fantastic, and many other TV, radio, and podcast programs. Jena writes about science and psychology topics that fly under the radar, from microbes in breast milk to the mysteries of working memory; from the biology of attraction, in humans and other species, to the psychology of the inner critic; from cutting-edge developments in medical technology to the scientist-activists who are transforming women's health and medicine. She has a soft spot for the quirky stuff. Jena is also the founder of DeepThink Decks (deepthinkdecks.com), which publishes tools (card decks) to help kids have fun developing their critical thinking skills. She holds a B.A. in Biology from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA with a dual concentration in media studies, and a M.A. from New York University with a focus on science in literature. She had been a senior editor at Random House and is a member of Science Writers of New York. She lives in New York City with her husband and two STEM-loving daughters and writes science fiction whenever she gets a little free time.

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    • 5/5
      One of the most interesting books on love and attraction I've read. It explains how smells, behavior, adaptive instincts, hormones, genes, and so on affect our sex lives.
    • 4/5
      Very interesting and well written. Sometimes science books are written too dry and poorly, which is a shame since they do not do justice to their topic (which is not saying that the style should dumb down the way information is conveyed -- just keep it interesting!). This book was a great read with lots of information that was not only interesting, but quite useful if you are wanting to maximise your tips as a waitress or scientific explanations for attraction! I definitely recommend it.
    • 5/5
      Very entertaining. Even tough there are a lot of details and scientific fact, it doesn't read like a science book, the author uses humor to make this a very enjoyable read. It makes a great coffee table book.
    • 3/5
      It was an interesting exploration of human attraction. I enjoyed it but I'm about 20 years older than the target audience- most of the Q&A was skewed toward those who haven't yet bred. A little fluffy, which fact was telegraphed by the purple type throughout. But fun. Worth a look, especially if you're twenty-something.