Close Relationships: Key Readings

by Reis,Harry T.; Reis,Harry T.

• ISBN13: 9780863775956
• ISBN10: 0863775950
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-21
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Relationships are among the most important human endeavors and play a central role in human behavior, emotion, and well-being. Too long neglected by the research community, the past few decades have seen rapid increases in the amount and sophistication of research designed to understand the processes that govern the initiation, development, maintenance, and deterioration of relationships. This collection includes both classic and contemporary approaches to some of the most important and influential issues in the study of relationships. The articles in this reader were selected and edited for readability, interest, and centrality to the empirical study of relationship processes. The reader provides a timely and thorough introduction to the theories, questions, methods, and findings of social-psychological research on relationship processes. Suitable for both graduate and undergraduate students, it might be used as a supplement in social psychology courses or as source material in courses andseminars concerned with relationships.

Table of Contents

Relationship Science: A Casual and Somewhat Selective Review	1	(20)
SECTION 1 Relationships in Our Lives	21	(54)
The Greening of Relationship Science	25	(10)
Ellen Berscheid
Social Support in Pregnancy: Psychosocial Correlates of Birth Outcomes and Postpartum Depression	35	(22)
Nancy L. Collins
Christine Dunkel-Schetter
Marci Lobel
Susan C.M. Scrimshaw
Change and Consistency in Social Participation During Early Adulthood	57	(18)
Harry T. Reis
Yi-Cheng Lin
M. Elizabeth Bennett
John B. Nezlek
SECTION 2 First Impressions and Interpersonal Attraction	75	(34)
Continuity Between the Experimental Study of Attraction and Real-Life Computer Dating	81	(8)
Donn Byrne
Charles R. Ervin
John Lamberth
Exposure Effects in the Classroom: The Development of Affinity Among Students	89	(10)
Richard L. Moreland
Scott R. Beach
Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes	99	(10)
Mark Snyder
Elizabeth Decker Tanke
Ellen Berscheid
SECTION 3 Evolution, Experience, and Later Relationships	109	(84)
Evolutionary Approaches to Relationships	115	(20)
Douglas T. Kenrick
Melanie R. Trost
Sex Differences in Human Mate Preferences: Evolutionary Hypotheses Tested in 37 Cultures	135	(18)
David M. Buss
Attachment as an Organizational Framework for Research on Close Relationships	153	(22)
Cindy Hazan
Phillip R. Shaver
Attachment Working Models and the Sense of Trust: An Exploration of Interaction Goals and Affect Regulation	175	(18)
Mario Mikulincer
SECTION 4 Developing Relationships	193	(46)
Intimacy as an Interpersonal Process: The Importance of Self-Disclosure, Partner Disclosure, and Perceived Partner Responsiveness in Interpersonal Exchanges	199	(14)
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Paula R. Pietromonaco
A Triangular Theory of Love	213	(16)
Robert J. Sternberg
Love and Marriage in Eleven Cultures	229	(10)
Robert Levine
Suguru Sato
Tsukasa Hashimoto
Jyoti Verma
SECTION 5 Interdependence in Relationships	239	(42)
Interpersonal Attraction in Exchange and Communal Relationships	245	(12)
Margaret S. Clark
Judson Mills
Beneficial Impression Management: Strategically Controlling Information to Help Friends	257	(12)
Barry R. Schlenker
Thomas W. Britt
Transactive Memory in Close Relationships	269	(12)
Daniel M. Wegner
Ralph Erber
Paula Raymond
SECTION 6 Maintaining Relationships	281	(58)
Commitment and Relationship Maintenance Mechanisms	287	(18)
Caryl E. Rusbult
Nils Olsen
Jody L. Davis
Peggy A. Hannon
Perception of Physical Attractiveness: Mechanisms Involved in the Maintenance of Romantic Relationships	305	(12)
Jeffry A. Simpson
Steven W. Gangestad
Margaret Lerma
The Benefits of Positive Illusions: Idealization and the Construction of Satisfaction in Close Relationships	317	(22)
Sandra L. Murray
John G. Holmes
Dale W. Griffin
SECTION 7 Cognition and Emotion in Ongoing Relationships	339	(82)
Managing Empathic Accuracy in Close Relationships	345	(20)
William Ickes
Jeffry A. Simpson
Close Relationships as Including Other in the Self	365	(16)
Arthur Aron
Elaine N. Aron
Michael Tudor
Greg Nelson
Eliciting Facial Affect, Motivation, and Expectancies in Transference: Significant-Other Representations in Social Relations	381	(24)
Susan M. Andersen
Inga Reznik
Lenora M. Manzella
Are there ``His'' and ``Hers'' Types of Interdependence? The Implications of Gender Differences in Collective Versus Relational Interdependence for Affect, Behavior, and Cognition	405	(16)
Shira Gabriel
Wendi L. Gardner
SECTION 8 Deteriorating Relationships	421	(62)
Attribution Processes in Distressed and Nondistressed Couples: 2. Responsibility for Marital Problems	427	(8)
Frank D. Fincham
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Close Relationships: Rejection Sensitivity and Rejection by Romantic Partners	435	(22)
Geraldine Downey
Antonio L. Freitas
Benjamin Michaelis
Hala Khouri
Emotional Behavior in Long-Term Marriage	457	(14)
Laura L. Carstensen
John M. Gottman
Robert W. Levenson
Patriarchal Terrorism and Common Couple Violence: Two Forms of Violence Against Women	471	(12)
Michael P. Johnson
Appendix: How to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychology	483	(10)
Christian H. Jordan
Mark P. Zanna
Author Index	493	(16)
Subject Index	509