The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships,Ellen S. Berscheid

Taylor & Francis

This textbook provides an integrated and organized foundation for students seeking a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of relationship science. It emphasizes the relationship field's intellectual themes, roots, and milestones; discusses its key constructs and their conceptualizations; describes its methodologies and classic studies; and, most important, presents the theories that have guided relationship scholars and produced the field's major research themes.\n > Part 1: Relationships: The Web of Life\n1. First Relationships 2. Relationships and Health Part 2: Relationship Science\n3. The Development of Relationship Science 4. The Concept of Relationship 5. Varieties of Relationship Part 3: Relationship Initiation and Development\n6. Birth of a Relationship 7. Relationship Growth and Maintenance Part 4: Relationship Processes\n8. Cognitive Processes 9. Affective Processes 10. Dispositional Influences Part 5: Mating Relationships 11. Love 12. Mate Selecs