TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erber,Ralph
AU  - Erber,Maureen Wang
TI  - Intimate relationships: issues, theories, and research 
SN  - 0205187064
AV  - BF575.I5 E73 2000
U1  - 306.7 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - Allyn and Bacon
KW  - Intimacy (Psychology)
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Interpersonal relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-310) and index; 1; Strangers, Friends, and Lovers --; Why Is Life So Complicated? --; The Need for Affiliation --; The Need for Intimacy --; The Need to Belong --; The Inevitability of Social Relationships --; Intimate Relationships Yesterday and Today --; The Way We Were --; The Way We Are Now --; 2; Methods to Study Relationships --; The Science of Intimate Relationships: Controversies and Issues --; Methodology: Data Collection and Analysis --; Archival Research --; Systematic Observation --; Interviews and Surveys --; Interpreting Survey Data: Correlations --; Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Research --; Experimentation --; Experimental and Mundane Realism --; Interpreting Experimental Data: Dyadic Effects --; Collecting Couple Data --; Data Collection in Real Time: Recording Ongoing Interactions --; Speed-Dating as a Research Paradigm --; Data Collection in the Internet Age --; Meta-Analysis: The Analysis of Analyses --; 3; Physical Attraction --; Physical Attractiveness and Dating Choices --; Standards of Attractiveness: Bodies and Faces --; Mirror, Mirror --; Evolution and Attractiveness --; The Importance of Averageness and Symmetry --; Cognitive Mechanisms --; The Physical Attractiveness Stereotype: Beauty is as Beauty Does --; The 'What Is Beautiful Is Good' Stereotype --; Cute Boys and Girls Are Better People, Too --; Infants Prefer Beautiful Faces --; Socialization --; Is the Attractiveness Stereotype Culturally Universal? --; Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder? --; Context Influences --; Dispositional Influences --; Attractiveness and Dating: A Reprise --; 4; Psychological Attraction --; Theory-Driven Approaches --; Implicit Egotism --; The Classical and Operant Conditioning of Liking --; Attraction as Misattribution of Arousal --; Characteristics of Others (Part I): The Gleam of Praise --; Characteristics of Others (Part II): Agreement Is Everything --; Similarity: Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? --; Complementarity: Do Opposites Attract? --; Phenomenon-Driven Approaches --; Proximity: Marrying the Boy or Girl Next Door --; Playing 'Hard to Get': Do We Love Those We Cannot Have? --; The Allure of Secret Relationships --; What Is So Lethal about Fatal Attractions? --; 5; Self-Presentation and Self-disclosure --; Flirtation --; Self-Presentation --; Self-Presentation Norms --; Self-Presentation in the Heat of Interaction --; Detecting Deceit in Self-Presentation --; Models of Self-Disclosure --; Self-Disclosure as Social Penetration --; Self-Disclosure Reciprocity --; Individual Differences in Self-Disclosure --; Gender-related differences --; Self-Monitoring --; Self-Consciousness --; Anxiety, Trust, and Machiavellianism --; Context Influences on Self-Disclosure --; Self-Disclosure in Mature Relationships --; 6; Fairness and Equity --; The Nature of Resources Exchanged --; Rewards and Costs --; Variety of Resources Exchanged --; Determining What Is Fair: Equity Theory --; Establishing Whether There Is Equity --; Do People Really Seek Equity? --; Reactions to Inequity --; Evaluating Relationship Outcomes: Comparison Levels --; The Thibaut and Kelley Model --; The Investment Model --; Close Relationships as Communal Relationships --; Giving and Receiving Benefits --; Controversies Surrounding the Communal-Exchange Distinction --; 7; Love and Emotion --; Liking and Loving: A Conceptual Distinction --; The Prototype of Love --; Causal Theories of Love --; The Evolution of Love --; Love as Misattribution of Arousal --; Love as Preoccupation with the Other --; Type Theories of Love --; The Colors of Love --; Primary Love Styles --; Secondary Love Styles --; Research on Love Styles --; A Triangular Theory of Love --; Passionate Love and Companionate Love --; Individual Differences in Love --; Gender --; Differences Due to Age and Relationship Duration --; Love over Time: Does It Get Better or Worse? --; Beyond Love: A Quick Look at Guilt --; 8; Attachment --; Patterns of Attachment in Infancy --; Causes of Different Attachment Patterns --; Adult Attachment --; From Infant Attachment to Adult Attachment: Models of Transition --; Consequences of Adult Attachment Styles --; Attachment Style and Emotional Control --; Attachment Style and Partner Choice --; Attachment Styles, Relationship Satisfaction, and Stability --; 9; Sexuality --; Attitudes about Sex: A Brief History --; A Brief History of Research on Sex --; Alfred Kinsey: What We Do When the Lights Are Out --; Sex in the United States Today --; Sex Around the World --; Sexual Interactions --; Sexual Pathways --; Sexual Communication --; Sex and the Married Couple: How Often Is Enough? --; Extradyadic Sex --; Sexual Orientation --; The Social Construction of Sexual Orientation --; Biological Essentialism --; The Exotic Becomes Erotic: The EBE Theory of Sexual Orientation --; Gay Brothers, but not Lesbian Sisters --; Can a Straight Person Have a Same-sex Love Relationship? --; Homophobia --; 10; Communication and Relationship Management --; Sex Differences in Communication --; Interruptions: Let Me Finish, Please! --; Language Use and Conversation Management --; Politeness --; Tag Questions --; Qualifiers and Hedges --; Back-Channeling --; Emotionality and Support --; Men and Women: Different Cultures, Different Planets, Different 'degrees?' --; Different Cultures or Different Skills? --; Managing Relationships --; Transactive Memory in Close Relationships --; Creating and Maintaining Satisfying Relationships --; Idealization --; Attributions --; Expectations --; The Special Case of Long-Distance Relationships --; 11; Fidelity and Jealousy --; Fidelity and Jealousy across Time and Cultures --; Fidelity --; A Brief History of Jealousy --; Defining Jealousy --; Envy: I Want What I Cannot Have (or You Can't Always Get What You Want...) --; Sources of Jealousy: The Jealous Person, the Partner, and the Rival --; The Jealous Person --; The Partner --; The Rival --; Social Cognitive Approaches to Jealousy --; Reactions to Jealousy --; Gender Differences in Perceptions of Threat --; Gender and Reactions to Infidelity: Two Approaches --; Gender and Reactions to Jealousy: 'Every breath you take, ...I'll be watching you.' --; Coping with the Green-Eyed Monster --; An Attachment Approach to Jealousy --; 12; Relationship Violence and Abuse --; Relationship Violence: Its Definition and Measurement --; Consequences of Relationship Violence --; Causes of Relationship Violence --; Common Beliefs and Realities --; Alcohol and Relationship Violence --; The Macrocontext of Relationship Violence --; The Microcontext of Relationship Violence: Individual Dispositions --; The Need for Power --; Power and Abuse --; Individual Differenes and Interaction Variables --; Sexual Violence --; Sexual Harassment --; Coercive Sex --; 13; Conflict --; Conflict between Lovers versus Strangers --; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Nature of Conflict in Intimate Relationships --; Defining Conflict --; From Order to Disorder: Types of Conflicts --; Sources of Conflict: 'I Said ... , You Said ...' --; Gender and Conflict: 'He Said ... , She Said ...' --; Age and Conflict --; Attribution and Conflict: Partner-Level Sources of Conflict --; Reactions to Conflict --; Peterson's Stage Model: How We 'Fight' --; Expression versus Avoidance --; What We Think and How We Feel --; Affect Reciprocity and Attributions --; Attachment Style and Conflict Resolution --; Transforming Relationships-From Conflict to Growth --; The Social Skill of Conflict Resolution --; Conflict in Context --; Balance Theory of Marriage and Conflict --; Transforming Relationships with Forgiveness-'Love means you should say you're sorry' --; Chapter 14 --; Dissolution and Its Aftermath --; Dissolution of Intimate Relationships: The End of Romance --; Causes of Dissolution --; Barrier Models of Dissolution --; Other Models of Dissolution --; Evolutionary Approaches to Dissolution --; Sex Differences in Dissolution --; The Aftermath of Relationship Dissolution --; Emotional Distress --; Loneliness --; Who Are the Lonely Hearts? --; Feelings and Sources of Loneliness --; Unrequited Love --; In the Wake of Divorce --; Divorce and Health --; Structural and Sociological Factors Related to Divorce --; Children of Divorce
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