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From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansDarwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. He argued that animals have "a taste for the beautiful" that drives their potential mates to evolve features that make them more sexually attractive and reproductively successful. But if Darwin explained why sexual beauty evolved in animals, he struggled to understand how. In A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off and transformed our understanding of sexual selection, shedding new light on human behavior in the process.Drawing on cutting-edge work in neuroscience and evolutionary biology, as well as his own important studies of the tiny Túngara frog deep in the jungles of Panama, Ryan explores the key questions: Why do animals perceive certain traits as beautiful and others not? Do animals have an inherent sexual aesthetic and, if so, where is it rooted? Ryan argues that the answers to these questions lie in the brain-particularly of females, who act as biological puppeteers, spurring the development of beautiful traits in males. This theory of how sexual beauty evolves explains its astonishing diversity and provides new insights about the degree to which our own perception of beauty resembles that of other animals.Vividly written and filled with fascinating stories, A Taste for the Beautiful will change how you think about beauty and attraction.

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As the title suggests, this book examines the psychology of interpersonal relations. In the context of this book, the term "interpersonal relations" denotes relations between a few, usually between two, people. How one person thinks and feels about another person, how he perceives him and what he does to him, what he expects him to do or think, how he reacts to the actions of the other--these are some of the phenomena that will be treated. Our concern will be with "surface" matters, the events that occur in everyday life on a conscious level, rather than with the unconscious processes studied by psychoanalysis in "depth" psychology. These intuitively understood and "obvious" human relations can, as we shall see, be just as challenging and psychologically significant as the deeper and st.

Interpersonal relations. --- Interpersonal attraction.

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Cet ouvrage a été constitué à l'initiative d'un éducateur aux prises avec une crise culturelle, une crise de l'autorité : comme l'artisan qui se forme au côté d'un maître, le compagnon qui explore les régions pour en tirer un savoir-faire d'exception, il a sollicité des personnes qui sont devenues des figures d'autorité dans le champ social pour qu'elles évoquent très librement leurs souvenirs, leurs expériences, certains de ces moments qui les ont faites ce qu'elles sont. L'ouvrage n'est pas seulement un hommage rendu à quelques hommes et femmes, il est ancré dans un questionnement actuel. Quelle place pour la parole de nos prédécesseurs ? Quelle place pour notre parole ? Quelle parole pour demain ? Dans un contexte social aux prises avec une modernité individualiste, pouvons-nous cheminer vers un langage commun, vers un souci de partage et de transmission, remettant au centre de nos préoccupations le collectif et l'éducation – dans son sens premier visant à conduire hors de ? Et de ces pratiques passées, et plus récentes, de nos expériences communes, pouvons-nous tirer quelque enseignement et retisser de ce lien qui nous unit ? Une utopie était à la source de cet ouvrage, peut-être ira-t-elle jusqu'à faire parler, faire discuter, échanger…

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Love --- Interpersonal attraction

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Beauty, Personal --- Human body --- Interpersonal attraction. --- Sexual attraction. --- Social aspects.