EMOTIONAL PROMISCUITY

Like Susan Cain's Quiet , Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, or Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect, this is a groundbreaking examination of a trait most of us can recognize but don't quite understand

You probably know someone who falls in love with the slightest provocation: a friendly chat at the grocery store or a flirtatious conversation. Some people are more susceptible than others to feeling that they're falling in love, just as some people are more likely than others to sleep with strangers. Dr. Daniel Jones is the world's leading researcher into this personality trait, which he calls emotional promiscuity: the tendency to fall in love fast, easily, and often.

As with other personality traits, such as extraversion or openness to new experiences, there are people at all ranges of emotional promiscuity, with most falling somewhere in the middle. EMOTIONAL PROMISCUITY explains why some people are more emotionally promiscuous, what that means for their relationships and other parts of their lives, and the consequences that can result. Those higher in EP are vulnerable to certain types of impulsivity, temptations, and fantasies, and frequently get swept up in the moment, engaging in romantic and sexual behaviors they may come to regret. EMOTIONAL PROMISCUITY draws on well-known and cutting-edge studies from the fields of psychology, sociology, and biology, including Dr. Jones's own, and weaves in multiple anecdotes and examples from Dr. Jones's research and pop culture.

DR. DANIEL JONES is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas. He runs the university's Dark Triad and Corporate Crime Laboratory, which focuses on the “Dark Triad” of personality: psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism. Jones is a specialist in the emerging field of emotional promiscuity, and created the peer-reviewed EP Scale, which is used to measure a person's tendency toward emotional promiscuity. He received his PhD in Personality/Social Psychology from the University of British
Columbia, where he was a postdoctoral researcher under world-renowned psychopathy researcher Dr. Robert Hare. Daniel Jones has received multiple prizes and grants for his work. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and scholarly chapters in psychology and related disciplines. Jones has discussed his work on the Dark Triad and emotional promiscuity in a wide range of online, print, and broadcast media, including the Huffington Post, the Boston Globe, and Psychology Today.