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The Science of Intimate RelationshipsJanuary 2013, ©2013, Wiley-Blackwell
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The Science of Intimate Relationships represents the first interdisciplinary approach to the latest scientific findings relating to human sexual relationships.
- Offers an unusual degree of integration across topics, which include intimate relationships in terms of both mind and body; bonding from infancy to adulthood; selecting mates; love; communication and interaction; sex; passion; relationship dissolution; and more
- Summarizes the links among human nature, culture, and intimate relationships
- Presents and integrates the latest findings in the fields of social psychology, evolutionary psychology, human sexuality, neuroscience and biology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and clinical psychology.
- Authored by four leading experts in the field
- Instructor materials are available at www.wiley.com/go/fletcher
About the Authors xv
Preface xvi
Part One: Introduction 1
1 The Science of Intimate Relationships 3
2 Intimate Relationships in Context: Key Theories, Concepts, and Human Nature 14
Part Two: Th e Relationship Animal 39
3 The Intimate Relationship Mind 41
4 The Intimate Relationship Body 69
Part Th ree: Beginning Relationships: Att achment and Mate Selection 97
5 Born to Bond: from Infancy to Adulthood 99
6 Selecting Mates 125
Part Four: Maintaining Relationships:the Psychology of Intimacy 155
7 Love, Sweet Love 157
8 Reading Minds, Partners, and Relationships 184
9 Communication and Interaction 210
10 Sex and Passion 236
11 Relationship Violence 259
Part Five: Ending Relationships: the Causes and Consequences of Relationship Dissolution 285
12 Relationship Dissolution 287
Part Six: Conclusion 313
13 Assembling t he Relationship Jigsaw 315
Glossary 327
References 338
Author Index 383
Subject Index 390
Garth Fletcher is Professor of Psychology at Victoria University Wellington. He is a fellow of five societies including the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and has been associate editor of both Personal Relationships and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Fletcher has published over 100 articles and book chapters, and has authored and edited 6 books.
Jeffry A. Simpson is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Doctoral Minor in Interpersonal Relationships (IREL) at the University of Minnesota. He has been the editor of the journal Personal Relationships and is currently the editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes (JPSP-IRGP). Simpson is the incoming president of the International Association for Relationship Research, and has published nearly 200 articles and chapters along with several edited books.
Lorne Campbell is Associate Professor of Psychology the University of Western Ontario. He has published over 40 articles and book chapters, serves on the editorial board of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and has been the editor of the journal Personal Relationships.
Nickola Overall is Senior Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has published over 35 articles and book chapters, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and is currently associate editor for Personal Relationships.“…An essential read for budding relationships experts.” (Psychology Today, 30 April 2013)
“Fletcher and colleagues do an excellent job simplifying (but not oversimplifying) the sometimes very complex scientific literature on intimate relationships…The book succeeds in addressing relationships from several different perspectives, most notably social psychological, evolutionary, and neuroscientific. This produces a much broader approach than is seen in most other books on relationships. The book is highly interdisciplinary and foreshadows an emerging integrative science of intimate relationships.”—Dr. Jon Maner, Director, Florida State University
“What makes this book distinctive is its strong, integrative theoretical underpinning and its coherent narrative style. The authors’ approach is unabashedly scientific and the text makes it very clear that relationship science is exactly that. However, the text is also perfectly pitched for non-scientists, with each chapter telling a lucid, thought-provoking and deeply informative story – science writing at its most graceful and engaging. This is a truly great text that will stand as a benchmark for many years to come.”—Professor Julie Fitness, Macquarie University
