Intimate Relationships
6th Edition
Published on 16. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-0-07-811715-2 (ISBN)
Description
The sixth edition of Intimate Relationships is the most accessible, comprehensive, and current work available. This text has a broad reach, drawing from all the relationship sciences including material from social psychology, communication studies, family studies, sociology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience. Clearly on the cutting edge, it presents all of the new developments in the field and exudes vigorous standards of scholarship while maintaining a highly acclaimed reader-friendly style that sets the text apart.
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Edition
6th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
717 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-811715-2 (9780078117152)
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Person
Rowland S. Miller is a Professor of Psychology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He has been teaching a course in Close Relationships for over 25 years, and he won the 2008 Teaching Award from the International Association for Relationship Research (primarily as a result of this book). He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a winner of the Edwin Newman Award for Excellence in Research from Psi Chi and the American Psychological Association.
Content
PREFACE1. The Building Blocks of Relationships2. Research Methods3. Attraction4. Social Cognition5. Communication6. Interdependency7. Friendship8. Love9. Sexuality10. Stresses and Strains11. Conflict12. Power and Violence13. The Dissolution and Loss of Relationships14. Maintaining and Repairing RelationshipsREFERENCESCREDITSNAME INDEXSUBJECT INDEX