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Print Price: $175.00

Format:
Hardback
816 pp.
7" x 10"

ISBN-13:
9780195398694

Publication date:
April 2013

Imprint: OUP US


The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships

Edited by Jeffry A. Simpson and Lorne Campbell

Series : Oxford Library of Psychology

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.

Readership : Suitable for academics, relationship scholars, and practitioners across several different fields of the social, behavioral, and health sciences.

Part One: Introduction to the Volume
1. Lorne Campbell and Jeffry A. Simpson: The Blossoming of Relationship Science
Part Two: Major Theoretical Approaches to Relationships
2. Douglas T. Kenrick, Steven L. Neuberg, and Andrew E. White: Relationships from an Evolutionary Life History Perspective
3. Ximena B. Arriaga: An Interdependence Theory Analysis of Close Relationships
4. Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver: The Role of Attachment Security in Adolescent and Adult Close Relationships
5. Arthur Aron, Gary W. Lewandowski Jr., Debra Mashek, and Elaine N. Aron: The Self-Expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships
6. Justin V. Cavallo, Sandra L. Murray, and John G. Holmes: Regulating Interpersonal Risk
Part Three: Attraction in Relationships
7. Jon K. Maner and Joshua M. Ackerman: Love is a battlefield: Romantic Attraction, Intrasexual Competition, and Conflict between the Sexes
8. Paul W. Eastwick: Cultural Influences on Attraction
9. C. Raymond Knee and Kristen N. Petty: Implicit Theories of Relationships: Destiny and Growth Beliefs
Part Four: Models of Relationship Functioning and Processes
10. Beverley Fehr: The Social Psychology of Love
11. Martie G. Haselton and Andrew Galperin: Error Management in Relationships
12. Margaret S. Clark and Oriana R. Aragon: Communal (and Other) Relationships: History, Theory Development, Recent Findings, and Future Directions
13. Serena Chen, Helen C. Boucher, Susan M. Andersen, and S. Adil Saribay: Transference and the Relational Self
14. Garth Fletcher and Patrick Kerr: Love, Reality, and Illusion in Intimate Relationships
15. Daniel C. Molden and Heike A. Winterheld: Motivations for Promotion or Prevention in Close Relationships
16. William Ickes and Sara D. Hodges: Empathic Accuracy in Close Relationships
17. Steven W. Gangestad and Christine E. Garver-Apgar: The Nature of Female Sexuality: Insights into the Dynamics of Romantic Relationships
18. Harry T. Reis and Margaret S. Clark: Responsiveness
Part Five: Daily Relationship Functioning
19. Nickola C. Overall and Jeffry A. Simpson: Regulation Processes in Close Relationships
20. Eli J. Finkel and Christopher I. Eckhardt: Intimate Partner Violence
21. Rainer Banse and Roland Imhoff: Implicit Cognition and Relationship Processes
22. Tammy English, Oliver P. John, and James J. Gross: Emotion Regulation in Close Relationships
23. Leanne K. Knobloch and Sandra Metts: Emotion in Relationships
24. James K. McNulty: Personality and Relationships
25. Stanley O. Gaines Jr. and Deletha P. Hardin: Interdependence Revisited: Perspectives from Cultural Psychology
26. John E. Lydon and Sara K. Quinn: Relationship Maintenance Processes
27. Lisa M. Diamond: Sexuality in Relationships
Part Six: Psychological and Physical Well-Being in Relationships
28. Timothy J. Loving and Richard Slatcher: Romantic Relationships and Health
29. Frank D. Fincham and Steven R.H. Beach: Gratitude and Forgiveness in Relationships
30. Benjamin R. Karney and Lisa A. Neff: Couples and Stress: How Demands Outside a Relationship Affect Intimacy within the Relationship
31. Lane Beckes and James A. Coan: Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Relationships
32. Brian Lakey: Social Support Processes in Relationships
Part Seven: Relationships Across Development and Time
33. Tessa V. West: Repeated Measures with Dyads
34. Katherine C. Haydon and Glenn I. Roisman: What's Past is Prologue: Social Developmental Antecedents of Close Relationships
35. Jenee James and Bruce J. Ellis: The Development of Human Reproductive Strategies: Toward an Integration of Life History and Sexual Selection Models
36. David A. Sbarra and Connie J.A. Beck: Divorce and Close Relationships: Findings, Themes, and Future Directions
Part Eight: Capstone
37. Jeffry A. Simpson and Lorne Campbell: The Waving of the Relationship Flag

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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 and The University of Western Ontario.

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Special Features

  • Presents the most important and novel emerging themes and issues relevant to the field of close relationships.
  • Provides the newest and most promising directions for future research.
  • Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY series.