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For higher level undergraduate and graduate level social, behavioral, biological, and health science courses in the psychology of interpersonal relationships.
The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships provides an integrated and organised foundation for students that will inform their own specialised pursuits within psychology and other disciplines. This brief but comprehensive introductory text is intended to reflect the fact that relationship science has proved to be an intellectually cohesive and cumulative endeavor, one with vast potential to advance progress in most areas of…mehr

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For higher level undergraduate and graduate level social, behavioral, biological, and health science courses in the psychology of interpersonal relationships.

The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships provides an integrated and organised foundation for students that will inform their own specialised pursuits within psychology and other disciplines. This brief but comprehensive introductory text is intended to reflect the fact that relationship science has proved to be an intellectually cohesive and cumulative endeavor, one with vast potential to advance progress in most areas of psychological inquiry as well as those of many other disciplines.

Features + Benefits

Outlines current research directions.
Presents the historical and theoretical perspectives responsible for the available body of knowledge about relationships.

Encompasses the relationship itself and the common descriptors of relationships.
Defines and discusses the constructs critical to relationship science.

Comprehensive and cohesive view.
Reaches many students-advanced undergraduates (juniors and seniors) in psychology, as well as graduate students in the many fields (e.g., sociology, communication studies, health sciences).

I. RELATIONSHIPS: THE WEB OF LIFE.

1. First Relationships.
2. Relationships and Health.
II. RELATIONSHIP SCIENCE.

3. The Development of Relationship Science.
4. The Concept of Relationship.
5. Varieties of Relationship.
III. RELATIONSHIP INITIATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

6. Birth of a Relationship.
7. Relationship Growth and Maintenance.
IV. RELATIONSHIP PROCESSES.

8. Cognitive Processes.
9. Affective Processes.
10. Dispositional Influences.
V. MATING RELATIONSHIPS.

11. Love.
12. Mate Selection and Sex.
VI. RELATIONSHIPS OVER TIME.

13. Satisfaction and Stability.
14. Intervention and Dissolution.
Autorenporträt
Ellen S. Berscheid, Regents' Professor of Psychology Emerita, University of Minnesota Pamela C. Regan, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles