About the Book
For courses in Human Sexuality Examine how human sexuality impacts students' lives today
Revel(TM) Human Sexuality Today helps students understand the key concepts of the discipline in order to make responsible decisions in their daily lives. Employing a conversational writing style, authors Bruce King and Pamela Regan present relevant information in a warm, nonthreatening manner that leaves students with positive feelings about sex and their own sexuality. The 9th Edition has been updated to reflect the latest research and to cover contemporary topics about which our understanding continues to develop, such as paraphilias and the effects of pornography. Revel is Pearson's newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel replaces the textbook and gives students everything they need for the course. Informed by extensive research on how people read, think, and learn, Revel is an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience - for less than the cost of a traditional textbook. NOTE: This Revel Combo Access pack includes a Revel access code plus a loose-leaf print reference (delivered by mail) to complement your Revel experience. In addition to this access code, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.
About the Author:
Bruce M. King received a B.A. in psychology from UCLA in 1969 and a Ph.D. in biopsychology from the University of Chicago in 1978. He taught for 29 years at the University of New Orleans and is presently in the Department of Psychology at Clemson University. He has taught human sexuality to over 60,000 students. In addition to conducting research in the field of human sexuality, he has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals on the biological basis of feeding behavior and obesity and has coauthored a textbook on statistics (B. M. King, P. J. Rosopa, & E. W. Minium,
Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences, 6th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2011). Dr. King is a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. He shared his thoughts about 30-plus years of teaching human sexuality in an article published in
American Journal of Sexuality Education (2012, vol. 7, pp. 181-186). In 2017, Dr. King authored a paper on the prevalence of human sexuality and gender/women's studies courses in U.S. higher education (Health Behavior and Policy Review, vol. 4, pp. 213-223).
Pamela Regan is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology with a supporting program in Statistics from the University of Minnesota and her undergraduate degree in English from Williams College. Her research interest is in the area of interpersonal relationships, with an emphasis on passionate love, sexual desire, and mate preference. She has published more than 100 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews (and has given over 75 professional presentations) on the dynamics of sex, love, and human mating, and she is the author of
Close Relationships (Routledge, 2011) and
The Mating Game: A Primer on Love, Sex, and Marriage(Sage, 2017) and the coauthor (with Ellen Berscheid) of
The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships (Pearson, 2005) and
Lust: What We Know About Human Sexual Desire (Sage, 1999). In 2007, she was honored with the Outstanding Professor Award by her university for excellence in instructional and professional achievement.
