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The choice effect : love and commitment in an age of too many options / by Amalia McGibbon, Lara Vogel, and Claire A. Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGibbon, Amalia, 1982-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Psychological aspects.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Women--Psychology.
- Women.
- Choice (Psychology).
- Commitment (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Seal Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Love choices but hate choosing? Welcome to the club.The Choice Effect is for young women who have all the opportunities in the world and no idea how to decide among them. It's one thing to have lots of options when it comes to fulfilling careers or traveling the world-but what does it mean for our love lives? How can you know whether you're with the right person-or if the time is right-when you haven't vetted the other possibilities? With hard-won insight, plus interviews with a whole host of other women who are living it, the twentysomething friends and authors of
- Contents:
- Introduction : A theory is born
- Choister? Why do you keep making that funny sound?
- Mommy, where do choisters come from?
- The world is yours, choister
- The choisters cometh
- Dating and mating
- Little white choister chapel
- We r ovr: when bad things happen to good choisters
- The light at the end of the tunnel might be an oncoming train
- Conclusion: Like graduation. But different.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211).
- ISBN:
- 1-282-64402-5
- 9786612644023
- 1-58005-356-4
- OCLC:
- 645940029
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