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Zusatztext This volume elegantly brings the research community up to date on the extremely important topic of friendship, which is so central to human experience. An initially small body of existing research has recently begun to expand, with attention to widely diverse friendship types and contexts . This book does a wonderful job of pulling together this literature with a series of chapters with scholarly reviews each focusing on one of these domains, and consistently addressing what we mean by friendship and how it operates and interacts with the rest of human experience. Anyone doing research on friendship needs this book." -Arthur Aron, Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University; Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley Informationen zum Autor Mahzad Hojjat is a social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Hojjat has taught, researched, and written about close relationships for the last 20 years. Her research focuses on a variety of topics including resilience, satisfaction, betrayal, and forgiveness in friendships and romantic relationships.Anne Moyer has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University since 2001. Her research interests include psychosocial issues surrounding cancer and cancer risk, medical decision making, research synthesis and meta-analysis and the psychology of research participation. She and co-editor, Mahzad Hojjat, became friends and collaborators while in graduate school together. Klappentext Edited by Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer, The Psychology of Friendship provides a comprehensive overview of the research on these important relationships, which represent one of humanity's closest connections. This book provides a wealth of information on both the beneficial and detrimental aspects of this important bond in everyone's lives. Zusammenfassung Edited by Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer, The Psychology of Friendship provides a comprehensive overview of the research on these important relationships, which represent one of humanity's closest connections. This book provides a wealth of information on both the beneficial and detrimental aspects of this important bond in everyone's lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: William Rawlins Introduction: Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer Part I: Friendship across the Life Span Chapter 1: Friendship in Childhood and Adolescence Cynthia A. Erdley and Helen Day Chapter 2: Friendships in Young and Middle Adulthood: Normative Patterns and Personality Differences Cornelia Wrzus, Julia Zimmermann, Marcus Mund, and Franz J. Neyer Chapter 3: Interactive Motifs and Processes in Old Age Friendship Rebecca G. Adams, Julia Hahmann, and Rosemary Blieszner Part II: Who Are Our Friends? Chapter 4: The Hackneyed Notions of Adult "Same-Sex" and "Opposite-Sex" Friendships William Monsour III Chapter 5: Friendship Across Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation Suzanna M. Rose and Michelle M. Hospital Chapter 6: Friendship and Social Media Andrew M. Ledbetter Chapter 7: Friendship and Romance: A Need-Fulfillment Perspective Laura E. VanderDrift, Chris R. Agnew, and Ezgi Besikci Chapter 8: Friendship Among Co-workers Rachel L. Morrison and Helena D. Cooper-Thomas Chapter 9: Mentors as Friends Laura Gail Lunsford Chapter 10: Animals as Friends: Social Psychological Implications of Human-pet Relationships Allen R. McConnell, E. Paige Lloyd, and Tonya M. Buchanan Part III: Friendship and Conflict Chapter 11: The Aftermath: Friendship after Romantic Relationship Termination Eddie M. Clark, Priscilla Fernandez, Abigail L. Harris, Michelle Hasan, and Katheryn B. Votaw Chapter 12: Transgression, Forgiveness, and Revenge in Friendship Mahzad Hojjat, Susan D. Boon, Elizabeth Barlow ...
