The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships provides the best, most in-depth, and most comprehensive summary of the study of close relationships. The book is divided into eight sections: introductory comments, major theoretical approaches to relationships, attraction in relationships, models of relationship functioning and processes, daily relationship functioning, psychological and physical well-being in relationships, relationships across development and time, and concluding comments. The 37 chapters showcase the most important classic and contemporary theories, models, and empirical research that have been conducted across three dozen major topic areas within the field of close relationships. Chapter topics range in scope from evolutionary approaches to understanding relationships, the "battle between the sexes," cultural influences on relationships, female sexuality, personality in relationships, intimate partner violence, relationships and health, social development, and adult relationship outcomes. Each chapter is structured around three themes: (1) the most important and foundational principles, ideas, and findings on each chapter topic, (2) the most important and novel emerging themes and issues relevant to each topic, and (3) the newest and most promising directions for future research. Current, comprehensive, and with heretofore unmatched breadth and depth, this volume will serve as a roadmap for future theory and research in the study of close relationship during the next decade.
Part One: Introduction to the Volume ;
1. The Blossoming of Relationship
Science ; Lorne Campbell and Jeffry A. Simpson ; Part Two: Major Theoretical
Approaches to Relationships ;
2. Relationships from an Evolutionary Life
History Perspective ; Douglas T. Kenrick, Steven L. Neuberg, and Andrew E.
White ;
3. An Interdependence Theory Analysis of Close Relationships ; Ximena
B. Arriaga ;
4. The Role of Attachment Security in Adolescent and Adult Close
Relationships ; Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver ;
5. The
Self-Expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships ;
Arthur Aron, Gary W. Lewandowski Jr., Debra Mashek, and Elaine N. Aron ;
6.
Regulating Interpersonal Risk ; Justin V. Cavallo, Sandra L. Murray, and John
G. Holmes ; Part Three: Attraction in Relationships ;
7. Love is a
battlefield: Romantic Attraction, Intrasexual Competition, and Conflict
between the Sexes ; Jon K. Maner and Joshua M. Ackerman ;
8. Cultural
Influences on Attraction ; Paul W. Eastwick ;
9. Implicit Theories of
Relationships: Destiny and Growth Beliefs ; C. Raymond Knee and Kristen N.
Petty ; Part Four: Models of Relationship Functioning and Processes ;
10. The
Social Psychology of Love ; Beverley Fehr ;
11. Error Management in
Relationships ; Martie G. Haselton and Andrew Galperin ;
12. Communal (and
Other) Relationships: History, Theory Development, Recent Findings, and
Future Directions ; Margaret S. Clark and Oriana R. Aragon ;
13. Transference
and the Relational Self ; Serena Chen, Helen C. Boucher, Susan M. Andersen,
and S. Adil Saribay ;
14. Love, Reality, and Illusion in Intimate
Relationships ; Garth Fletcher and Patrick Kerr ;
15. Motivations for
Promotion or Prevention in Close Relationships ; Daniel C. Molden and Heike
A. Winterheld ;
16. Empathic Accuracy in Close Relationships ; William Ickes
and Sara D. Hodges ;
17. The Nature of Female Sexuality: Insights into the
Dynamics of Romantic Relationships ; Steven W. Gangestad and Christine E.
Garver-Apgar ;
18. Responsiveness ; Harry T. Reis and Margaret S. Clark ;
Part Five: Daily Relationship Functioning ;
19. Regulation Processes in Close
Relationships ; Nickola C. Overall and Jeffry A. Simpson ;
20. Intimate
Partner Violence ; Eli J. Finkel and Christopher I. Eckhardt ;
21. Implicit
Cognition and Relationship Processes ; Rainer Banse and Roland Imhoff ;
22.
Emotion Regulation in Close Relationships ; Tammy English, Oliver P. John,
and James J. Gross ;
23. Emotion in Relationships ; Leanne K. Knobloch and
Sandra Metts ;
24. Personality and Relationships ; James K. McNulty ;
25.
Interdependence Revisited: Perspectives from Cultural Psychology ; Stanley O.
Gaines Jr. and Deletha P. Hardin ;
26. Relationship Maintenance Processes ;
John E. Lydon and Sara K. Quinn ;
27. Sexuality in Relationships ; Lisa M.
Diamond ; Part Six: Psychological and Physical Well-Being in Relationships ;
28. Romantic Relationships and Health ; Timothy J. Loving and Richard
Slatcher ;
29. Gratitude and Forgiveness in Relationships ; Frank D. Fincham
and Steven R.H. Beach ;
30. Couples and Stress: How Demands Outside a
Relationship Affect Intimacy within the Relationship ; Benjamin R. Karney and
Lisa A. Neff ;
31. Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Relationships ; Lane
Beckes and James A. Coan ;
32. Social Support Processes in Relationships ;
Brian Lakey ; Part Seven: Relationships Across Development and Time ;
33.
Repeated Measures with Dyads ; Tessa V. West ;
34. What's Past is Prologue:
Social Developmental Antecedents of Close Relationships ; Katherine C. Haydon
and Glenn I. Roisman ;
35. The Development of Human Reproductive Strategies:
Toward an Integration of Life History and Sexual Selection Models ; Jenee
James and Bruce J. Ellis ;
36. Divorce and Close Relationships: Findings,
Themes, and Future Directions ; David A. Sbarra and Connie J.A. Beck ; Part
Eight: Capstone ;
37. The Waving of the Relationship Flag ; Jeffry A. Simpson
and Lorne Campbell
Jeffry A. Simpson, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Doctoral Minor in Interpersonal Relationships at the University of Minnesota.
Lorne Campbell, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at The University of Western Ontario.
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