Madeleine A. Fugère is Professor of Psychology at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA. Her research and teaching interests include social psychology, statistics, research methods, and attraction and romantic relationships. She has previously published articles related to romantic relationships, sexual double standards, and teaching psychology courses.

Jennifer Leszczynski is Professor of Psychology at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA. Her research interests include contextual influences on masculinity and femininity and gendered beliefs about love across the lifespan. She also studies how using community engagement in college classrooms can dispel gender and age stereotypes.

Alita J. Cousins is Associate Professor of Psychology at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA. Her research focuses on conflict in romantic relationships, particularly mate guarding in dating couples. She has published research articles in a variety of journals on topics such as mate guarding, mate retention tactics, aggression in romantic relationships, and changes in relationship dynamics across the menstrual cycle.

PART I: ATTRACTION
1. Forming Attitudes toward Potential Partners: First Impressions of Physical Characteristics
2. Forming Attitudes toward Potential Partners: First Impressions of Non-Physical Characteristics
3. First Impressions of Non-Physical Characteristics: Levels of Acquaintance and the Importance of Meeting in Person
4. Evolutionary Theory
5. Initiating and Enhancing Attraction
PART II: ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
6. Assessing and Changing Attitudes toward Romantic Partners
7. Romantic Relationships
8. Sex and Love
9. Gender.