Dr. Pepper Schwartz
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Dr. Pepper Schwartz is the industry's leading relationship authority. She has contributed regularly to Glamour and has appeared repeatedly on Oprah, the Today show, and numerous national news shows, and she is currently the relationship expert for PerfectMatch.com. Dr. Pepper is the author of fourteen books, including The Great Sex Weekend and Everything You Know About Love and Sex Is Wrong. A professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle, she holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University.
Pepper Schwartz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and an M.A. and Ph.D in Sociology from Yale University.
As the industry’s leading relationship expert, Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D, has created the Personality Profiler, similar to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator®, exclusively for the committed adults seeking long-term relationships on Perfectmatch.com. As the most effective and sophisticated leading-edge romantic matching tool on or off the internet, the Personality Profiler significantly helps Perfectmatch’s members to identify their significant other’s “Similarity Factors” and “Complimentary Factors,” which will ultimately lead them to finding their perfect match.
Dr. Schwartz has received many awards, including the 2005 American Sociological Award for the Public Dissemination of Information, the Matrix Award for Achievement in Education and the International Women's Forum Award in Career Achievement in Washington State. She is the author of 14 books, including many popular books such as: The Great Sex Weekend, The Lifetime Love and Sex Quiz Book, Everything You Know About Love and Sex is Wrong and Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Sex and Character with Dominic Cappello, 201 Question to Ask Your Kids / 201 Questions to Ask Your Parents (Avon/Morrow).
Dr. Schwartz wrote the monthly column "Sex and Health" for Glamour Magazine, with coauthor Dr. Janet Lever, for more than seven years, and “Talking About Sex” for 8 years for American Baby Magazine. She also wrote a weekly column called "Sex.Net with Dr. Pepper" for Microsoft Corporation's One Click Away.
Dr. Schwartz has contributed to many magazines, journals and newspapers including the New York Times "Parent and Child" column, Sexual Health, Psychology Today and Contexts. Dr. Schwartz was a regular member of the KIRO-TV (Seattle) news staff for twelve years and appears regularly on national TV news, documentaries and other programs. She is the author of more than 40 scholarly articles and has served as a consultant to many national organizations. Dr. Schwartz lectures nationally and internationally on relationship topics, women’s issues, parent and child issues, communication between men and women in intimate and work relationships, and maintaining personal and family well-being in today’s world.
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Dr. Pepper Schwartz
Box 353340
Department of Sociology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Telephone: 206-543-4036 (office)
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Related Books
- Sex and the Yale Student, with Richard Feller, Elaine Fox, and Dr. Philip Sarrel Feller (The Committee on Human Sexuality, Yale University, 1970)
- The Student Guide to Sex on Campus, by the Student Committee on Human Sexuality at Yale, edited by Richard Feller, Elaine Fox, and Pepper Schwartz (Signet Books, 1971)
- Women at Yale: Liberating a College Campus, with Janet Lever (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1971)
- American Couples, with Philip Blumstein (William Morrow, 1983)
- Gender in Intimate Relationships: A Micro-Structural Approach, with Barbara J. Risman (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1988) ISBN-10 0534096905, ISBN-13 978-0534096908
- Everything You Know About Love and Sex Is Wrong (Perigee Trade, 1991 reissue) ISBN-10 0399527125, ISBN-13 978-0399527128
- Peer Marriage (The Free Press, 1994) ISBN-10 0743254074
- Love Between Equals: How Peer Marriage Really Works (Touchstone, 1995) ISBN-10 0028740610, ISBN-13 978-0028740614
- The Gender of Sexuality: Exploring Sexual Possibilities (The Gender Lens series), with Virginia Rutter (AltaMira Press, 1998) ISBN-10 0803990421, ISBN-13 978-0803990425
- The Great Sex Weekend: A 48-hour Guide to Rekindling Sparks for Bold, Busy, or Bored Lovers, with Janet Lever (Perigee Trade, 2000) ISBN-10 0399525718, ISBN-13 978-0399525711
- Ten Talks Parents Must Have with their Children About Sex and Character, with Dominic Cappello (Hyperion Books, 2000) ISBN-10 0786885483, ISBN-13 978-0786885480)
- 201 Questions to Ask Your Kids: 201 Questions to Ask Your Parents (Collins, 2000) ISBN-10 0380805251, ISBN-13 978-0380805259
- The Lifetime Love and Sex Quiz Book (Hyperion Books, 2002) ISBN-10 0786887486, ISBN-13 978-0786887484
- Finding Your Perfect Match (Perigee Trade, 2006) ISBN-10 0399532447, ISBN-13 978-0399532443
- Prime: Advice and Adventures on Sex, Love and the Sensuous Years (Collins, 2007) ISBN-10 0061173584. ISBN-13 978-0061173585)
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