JUSTIN GARCIA

Justin Garcia

Dr. Justin R. Garcia is an evolutionary biologist and sex researcher. He is currently Acting Executive Director; Research Director of The Kinsey Institute, Ruth N. HallsAssociate Professor of Gender Studies, and IU Bicentennial Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Garcia is an award-winning researcher and educator. His interdisciplinary research program focuses on the evolutionary and biocultural foundations of romantic and sexual relationships across the human life course. Garcia and colleagues have conducted research and published on a variety of topics related to social and sexual behaviors and intimate relationships,  including variation in monogamy, intimacy, gender, courtship, dating, desire, satisfaction, and reproductive strategies. Since 2010, Justin serves as Scientific Advisor to Match (match.com), lending his expertise to the annual Singles in America study on the attitudes and behaviors of single people in the United States.

 

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  • The Intimate Animal: Why We Live and Die for Love – COMING SOON

THE INTIMATE ANIMAL: WHY WE LIVE AND DIE FOR LOVE

 

Research Director at The Kinsey Institute, Match.com Scientific Advisor, discoverer of the “Infidelity Gene,” and renowned expert on the science of love and sex, Dr. Justin Garcia reveals our intimacy instincts—and how the tensions between our competing evolved desires for love and sex explains the heartache and heartbreak of our romantic and sexual lives. These two biological systems are often in painful conflict. Garcia explains that these tensions play out in today’s digital age in complex ways, and that we are now in a global intimacy crisis because sex can be digitized by love cannot. He offers us the first evolutionary understanding of the entire life course of our intimate relationships —how we date, mate, break, and remake our love lives. 

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