Author mehim Posted April 24, 2005 Author Posted April 24, 2005 Originally posted by RecordProducer All those books are highly commercial and have no scientific proofs. In fact, you can write whatever you want and claim you thoroughly researched the lives of a million people before you derived the conclusions. If the publisher thinks they can make money on your book, they will publish it, unless it's against the law. Once you figure out how show-business and commercial publishing works, you will have much less respect for art and literature. Most books you can find in the market written by shrinks have no value whatsoever. well i don't really get what you are exactly talking about here, because i know that if it was a bunch of BS the college wouldn't use it in a psychology class, they could of just threw out of their choice of books to use. there are also scientific evidence in most of the book's chapters, not for this chapter which was about love, because love is very hard to define in the first place, and you don't need any science to prove some things that are based on emotions.
moimeme Posted April 24, 2005 Posted April 24, 2005 All those books are highly commercial and have no scientific proofs. In fact, you can write whatever you want and claim you thoroughly researched the lives of a million people before you derived the conclusions. If the publisher thinks they can make money on your book, they will publish it, unless it's against the law. We're not talking about self-help books. We're talking about textbooks that have to be approved by umpteen professionals and, usually, peer reviewed before acceptance. No reputable university would use any other sort of book.
MySugaree Posted April 24, 2005 Posted April 24, 2005 Based on personal experience, as opposed to peer reviewed studies, I've not seen noticeable gender differences in the speed of falling in love. That's usually a matter of individual differences based upon stage of life, age, experiences, temperament, character and the other person. Letting go is a different matter. Guys, on balance, appear to have a noticeably more difficult time recovering from lost love.I don't know whether this simply reflects a lack of social networking, and other safety nets that women employ, or it's that damn Y chromosome. On the extreme end, I'm struck by stories about boy friends and husbands stalking and murdering their estranged lovers and spouses. This is not about love, I know that. It's about power, control, obsession and pathological jealousy. Nevertheless, this extreme behavior might tell a gender story.
ReluctantRomeo Posted April 25, 2005 Posted April 25, 2005 Originally posted by RecordProducer Once you figure out how show-business and commercial publishing works, you will have much less respect for art and literature. And for the people who produce it?
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