The New Science of Intimate Relationships

Garth J. O. Fletcher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2002
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
9780631220787 (ISBN)

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* Looks at what science can tell us about love, sex and friendship. * Synthesises ideas from different sub--disciplines of psychology. * Written to be accessible to general readers as well as students. .

Garth Fletcher is Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and is a fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand, The Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the American Psychological Society. He is the author of The Scientific Credibility of Folk Psychology (1995) and a co-editor of Cognition in Close Relationships (1991), Knowledge Structures in Close Relationships (1996) and the Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes (2001).

Preface. 1. The New Science of Intimate Relationships.

PART I: THREE THEORETICAL PLANKS.

2. The Intimate Relationship Mind: Theories About Theories about Theories.

3. The Origins of the Intimate Relationship Mind.

4. Love and Other Emotions in Intimate Relationships.

PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS.

5. Reading Minds and Personalities in Intimate Relationships.

6. Communication and Relationship Success.

7. Attachment and Intimacy.

8. Selecting Mates and Relationships.

PART III: SEX AND VIOLENCE.

9. Sex and Passion.

10. The Strange Case of Aggression in Intimate Relationships.

PART IV: CONCLUSION.

11. Assembling the Intimate Relationship Mind.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.2.2002
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9780631220787 / 9780631220787
Zustand	Neuware