The New Science of Intimate Relationships

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"With impeccable scholarship, sharp wit, and a beautiful writingstyle, Garth Fletcher showcases, explores, and debates some of themost important principles, ideas, and assumptions that define thenew science of intimate relationships. Both experts and laypersonsalike can glean important, new insights from each thought-provokingchapter. This wonderful book is required reading for anyone whowants to understand the multifaceted reasons for how and why sexualrelationships are initiated, developed, maintained, and sometimesterminated across the lifespan." Jeffrey Simpson, Professor ofPsychology at Texas A&M University, and co-editor of AttachmentTheory and Close Relationships and Evolutionary SocialPsychology "This is an important, fascinating, and delightful book. GarthFletcher offers the reader an up-to-date summary of the mostinteresting and important work on human sexual relationships, andhe pulls these pieces together with a grand and profoundunderstanding of how -- and why -- people carry on intimaterelationships. The book is so beautifully written that one moveseasily from chapter to chapter, learning something new on almostevery page." Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at CaseWestern Reserve University, and author of The Social Dimension ofSex and Evil and Inside Human Violence and Cruelty "In this lively new book, Garth Fletcher has provided a muchneeded interdisciplinary integration of the diverse scientificfields that study intimate relationships. Researchers will findtheir work ably presented in a volume that is scholarly, fiercelyintelligent, and even-handed. Students and lay readers will alsoenjoy the many insights and discoveries so engagingly presented inthis fascinating book." Letitia Anne Peplau, Professor ofPsychology at UCLA, and co-author of Social Psychology (10th.Edition) and co-editor of Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity: CurrentResearch about Men and Women "Garth Fletcher succeeds brilliantly at reaching just theright balance of rigorous scholarship and great storytelling...What I enjoyed most about this book was not only the fascinatingtour of current research and theory, but also the sheer joy ofscience that underlies each chapter...a delightful andimportant book." Associate Professor Nancy Collins,University of California at Santa Barbara, ISSPR Bulletin A superb book...engagingly written, insightful, richlydetailed, and admirably comprehensive. It is a joy to read.Choice "The New Science of Intimate Relationships is a boldattempt to cover the landscape in a way that will appeal to layreaders, students, and researchers alike. Overall, Fletcher does agood job walking the fine line among these audiences... all readerswill gain insights into their intimate relationship minds." MarkR. Leary, Wake Forest University, The Human Nature Review, Volume3, 2003