Attribution, Communication Behavior, and Close Relationships

by Edited by Valerie Manusov , John H. Harvey

• ISBN13: 9780521770897
• ISBN10: 0521770890
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Attribution, Communication Behavior, and Close Relationships brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines whose work focuses on the interplay of attribution processes and communication behavior in close relationships. The book shows ways in which diverse scholarly perspectives can blend to provide insight into areas of common interest. In this case, it is the ways that people in relationships think about communication, make attributions through communication, and communicate about the attributions they make.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xiii
Introduction	xvii
Valerie Manusov
PART ONE: ATTRIBUTION, AFFECT, AND WELL-BEING IN RELATIONSHIPS
Affective Influences on Communication and Attributions in Relationships	3	(18)
Joseph P. Forgas
Communication and Attribution: An Exploration of the Effects of Music and Mood on Intimate Couples' Verbal and Nonverbal Conflict Resolution Behaviors	21	(17)
James M. Honeycutt
Michael E. Eidenmuller
Making Sense of Hurtful Interactions in Close Relationships: When Hurt Feelings Create Distance	38	(21)
Anita L. Vangelisti
The Association between Accounts of Relationship Development Events and Relational and Personal Well-Being	59	(34)
Jeanne Flora
Chris Segrin
Commentary. Affect, Attribution, and Communication: Uniting Interaction Episodes and Global Relationship Judgments	79	(14)
Denise Haunani Solomon
PART TWO: ATTRIBUTIONS AND COMMUNICATION IN DATING AND MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS
Attributions, Communication, and the Development of a Marital Identity	93	(22)
Catherine A. Surra
Denise S. Bartell
Causal Attributions of Relationship Quality	115	(19)
Ellen Berscheid
Jason Lopes
Hilary Ammazzalorso
Nora Langenfeld
The Content of Attributions in Couples' Communication	134	(19)
Valerie Manusov
Jody Koenig
Handling Pressures for Change in Marriage: Making Attributions for Relational Dialectics	153	(20)
Patricia Noller
Judith A. Feeney
Anita Blakeley-Smith
The Role of Marital Behavior in the Longitudinal Association between Attribution and Marital Quality	173	(20)
Matthew D. Johnson
Benjamin R. Karney
Ronald Rogge
Thomas N. Bradbury
Stepping Into the Stream of Thought: Cognition During Marital Conflict	193	(34)
Alan Sillars
Linda J. Roberts
Tim Dun
Kenneth Leonard
Commentary. Thanks for the Curry: Advancing Boldly into a New Millennium of Relationship Attribution Research	211	(16)
Frank D. Fincham
PART THREE: NEW DIRECTIONS AND CONTEXTS FOR ATTRIBUTIONS AND COMMUNICATION
Attributions and Regulative Communication by Parents Participating in a Community-Based Child Physical Abuse Prevention Program	227	(21)
Steven R. Wilson
Ellen E. Whipple
``True Lies'': Children's Abuse History and Power Attributions as Influences on Deception Detection	248	(18)
Daphne Blunt Bugental
William Shennum
Mark Frank
Paul Ekman
HIV-Infected Persons' Attributions for the Disclosure and Nondisclosure of the Seropositive Diagnosis to Significant Others	266	(19)
Valerian J. Derlega
Barbara A. Winstead
Attributions about Communication Styles and Strategies: Predicting Dating Couples' Safe-Sex Discussions and Relationship Satisfaction	285	(20)
Candida C. Peterson
Ashlea Troth
Cynthia Gallois
Judith Feeney
Why Do People Have Affairs? Recent Research and Future Directions about Attributions for Extramarital Involvement	305	(15)
David Atkins
Sona Dimidjian
Neil Jacobson
Attribution in Social and Parasocial Relationships	320	(33)
Rebecca B. Rubin
Alan M. Rubin
Commentary. Extending Attribution Theory: Contributions and Cautions	338	(15)
Sandra Metts
PART FOUR: A DISCUSSION OF ATTRIBUTION THEORY FOR CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS
The Status of Attribution Theory qua Theory in Personal Relationships	353	(19)
Brian H. Spitzberg
Are There Superior Options? Commentary on Spitzberg's ``The Status of Attribution Theory qua Theory in Personal Relationships''	372	(9)
John H. Harvey
Julia Ormazu
Index	381