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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface.
1. The New Science of Intimate Relationships.
PART I: THREE THEORETICAL PLANKS.
2. The Intimate Relationship Mind: Theories About Theories about
Theories.
3. The Origins of the Intimate Relationship Mind.
4. Love and Other Emotions in Intimate Relationships.
PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS.
5. Reading Minds and Personalities in Intimate
Relationships.
6. Communication and Relationship Success.
7. Attachment and Intimacy.
8. Selecting Mates and Relationships.
PART III: SEX AND VIOLENCE.
9. Sex and Passion.
10. The Strange Case of Aggression in Intimate
Relationships.
PART IV: CONCLUSION.
11. Assembling the Intimate Relationship Mind.
Notes.
References.
Index.
Circa l’autore
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).
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