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Informationen zum Autor Harry T. Reis is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester. He studies the factors that influence the quantity and closeness of social interaction! and the consequences of different patterns of socializing for health and psychological well-being. He is also investigating some of the psychological processes that affect the course and conduct of close relationships. He is particularly interested in intimacy! attachment and emotion regulation. He is well-versed in the field! having served as editor of its leading journal! Journal of Personality and Social Psychology! having recently edited The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Relationships! and having served as president of both the world's largest organization of social psychologists (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) and the world's pre-eminent organization devoted to researching relationships (International Association of Relationship Research). Klappentext Close relationships provide a fundamental context for human behaviour and development and as such the study of close relationships has in recent years become a major theme in social psychology. This field produces rich and diverse research that can be daunting to access. Psychology of Close Relationships emphasizes original empirical investigations, as well as including conceptual papers that set the stage for relationship science or that build basic theories. Volume One: Theoretical Foundation - Why Relationships Matter focuses on basic theoretical arguments about the importance of relationships for human behaviour and demonstrations of the consequences of relationships for health and well-being. Volume Two: Attraction and Relationship Development covers the initiation and development of relationships by looking at classic processes such as similarity, proximity, familiarity and attractiveness, as well as material on friendship formation, self-disclosure, and intimacy. Volume Three: Relationship Cognition and Emotion includes articles on the emotional and cognitive processes that characterize relationships. Volume Four: Relationship Maintenance Processes delves into the processes relevant to maintaining and enhancing relationships and investigates interdependence theory, the leading approach to this topic. Volume Five: Relationship Deterioration reviews research on the nature of relationship instability and deterioration, as well as what is known about their causes and consequences. Psychology of Close Relationships is five volumes of tightly written articles about what brings people together, keeps them together or propels them apart. This is a wonderfully concise, and well presented set of papers quoting recent and longitudinal research, which deserves to be available to clinicians as well as researchers. Zusammenfassung This reference collection on close relationships - a major theme in social psychology - includes classic! groundbreaking articles! papers that represent the major theoretical approaches in the field and recent! cutting-edge advances. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS - WHY RELATIONSHIPS MATTER PART ONE: THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION TO CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS The Greening of Relationship Science - Ellen Berscheid The Need to Belong - Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental Human Motivation Evolutionary Approaches to Relationships - Douglas Kenrick and Melanie Trost Personality in Context - Vivian Zayas, Yuichi Shoda and Ozlem Ayduk An Interpersonal Systems Perspective Beyond Positive Psychology? Toward a Contextual View of Psychological Processes and Well-Being - James McNulty and Frank Fincham The Unrecognized Stereotyping and Discrimination against People Who Are Single - Bella DePaulo and Wendy Morris What Do W...
