Why Him? Why Her?: Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality Type
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A groundbreaking book about how your personality type determines who you love. Erica L. Foley - Library Journal Fisher (anthropology, Rutgers Univ.; Why We Love) presents her research for Chemistry.com on personality types and long-term relationships. Paralleling the theories of Hippocrates, Carl Jung, David Keirsey, and others, she posits that people fall into four different groups of inherited temperament: explorers, builders, directors, and negotiators. She offers a test for readers to find their type and thoroughly explains the traits of each temperament and the corresponding chemicals and hormones. To illustrate these traits, Fisher assigns well-known historical figures to the types. Next, readers learn what each type is looking for in a mate, what sort of connection the different types hope to make, and how they behave in dating and relationships. Fisher explores each of the ten possible relationship combinations of the four types, describing strengths and pitfalls of each. There is also a section on the biology of first impressions and early dating behaviors. Readers seeking a long-term relationship will be interested in Fisher's ideas, and her book is recommended for larger public libraries.
1 Eavesdropping on Mother Nature: Why Him? Why Her? 12 Finding Your Personality Type: The Personality Type Test 183 The Hand You're Dealt: Nature's Dice 244 Drink Life to the Lees: The Explorer 425 A Pillar of Society: The Builder 626 Always to the Stars: The Director 837 The Philosopher King: The Negotiator 1038 Play Mates, Help Mates, Mind Mates, Soul Mates: The Chemistry of Dating 1249 Falling in Love: The Funnel 14210 The One: How We Love 16011 Putting Chemistry to Work: Advice from Nature 193Notes 223Appendix The Mate Choice Study 237Bibliography 245Acknowledgments 275Index 277
