The New Science of Intimate Relationships

by Fletcher, Garth J. O.

• ISBN13: 9780631220787
• ISBN10: 063122078X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Written by one of the world's leading authorities on close relationships, this accessible study is one of the first to look seriously at what science can tell us about love, sex and friendship.

Author Biography

Garth Fletcher is Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and is a fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand, The Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the American Psychological Society. He is the author of The Scientific Credibility of Folk Psychology (1995) and a co-editor of Cognition in Close Relationships (1991), Knowledge Structures in Close Relationships (1996) and the Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes (2001).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The New Science of Intimate Relationships	1	(20)
Part I: Three Theoretical Planks	21	(82)
The Intimate Relationship Mind: Theories about Theories about Theories	23	(27)
The Origins of the Intimate Relationship Mind	50	(26)
Love and Other Emotions in Intimate Relationships	76	(27)
Part II: The Development of Intimate Relationships	103	(92)
Reading Minds and Personalities in Intimate Relationships	105	(20)
Communication and Relationship Success	125	(24)
Attachment and Intimacy	149	(20)
Selecting Mates and Relationships	169	(26)
Part III: Sex and Violence	195	(60)
Sex and Passion	197	(33)
The Strange Case of Aggression in Intimate Relationships	230	(25)
Part IV: Conclusion	255	(17)
Assembling the Intimate Relationship Mind	257	(15)
Notes	272	(19)
References	291	(25)
Index	316