From Instincts to Love
How simple adaptive systems may develop into complex human emotions and relationships.
From Instincts to Love uses Micropsychology to follow many adaptive systems through development. It asks how feeding, safety, caregiving, care receiving, the self, emotion, sex, gender, and love may grow from simpler biological beginnings into richer adult behavior.
Rather than treating nature as a single inherited behavior, the book begins with a broader set of inherited adaptive systems. These systems unfold in stages and depend on cues that may be innate, learned, social, or cultural.
Within this framework, emotions can be viewed as part of the regulation of active adaptive systems, while love becomes an umbrella term for several systems and their long developmental histories. By examining these components and how they develop and interact, the book invites readers to look again at what adult behavior is made of.
Watch: INSTINCTS Explained
This video introduces the idea of instincts as biological starting points that expand through learning and contribute to increasingly complex behavior.