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The Tending Instinct: Women, Men, and the Biology of Relationships

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The book is an amazing compilation of basic up to the minute neuroendocrinology and social psychology.

Combined with work on gender development, e.g., "The Two Sexes: Growing Apart, Coming Together," by Stanford psychologist Eleanor Maccoby, this book provides deep background for two of the most salient issues confronting the reproduction of American culture: collaborative parenting and collaborative conflict resolution.

It is extremely unfortunate that this book is not ranked higher on the Amazon sales chart It's a must read as a nuts and bolts book about the elementary conditions necessary for true "family values."

But it is even more valuable as a subtle debunking of the fictious version of "human nature" espoused by the likes of Steven Pinker. Pinker is at his best describing the power of human language. For solid looks at the ways in which men and women develop emotionally, look at Taylor and Maccoby

This authors is a mainstream intellectual whose "Social Pyschology" textbook is probably beyond the 11 th edition, the last one I checked. She is also one of the founders of Health Psychology as a subdiscipline in Psychology and her similarly named text must be in at least the 6th edition, and is considered the Gold Standard in the area!