Update: Thanks to all who have participated in the kissing survey. The polls are now closed, but my associated cognitive neuroscience experiment begins next week. You can follow the research live on Twitter @Sheril_
My next book deals with a subject I've written extensively about on and off the blog. I even helped to facilitate a popular symposium at last years AAAS meeting on topic... The Science of Kissing will be an interdisciplinary look at why and how we kiss, drawing on neuroscience, classical history, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and popular culture. Without giving away too much detail, I’ll say that it’s been extremely interesting to compose so far and more fascinating than I ever imagined. And then I got to thinking...Why merely report on the science when there are obvious next steps in research? So I did what anyone in my position would. I called up a neuroscientist. The ...
