Social Relationships: Cognitive, Affective and Motivational Processes (Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology: Vol. 10)

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Synopsis
Human beings are an intrinsically gregarious species - our personal relationships are of immense interest to us and are a key factor in achieving happiness and well being. From the moment of birth, humans crave love and intimacy and we devote much energy to creating and maintaining successful personal relationships throughout our personal and our working lives. However, modern industrialized societies present a particularly challenging environment for sustaining rewarding personal relationships. Understanding how people initiate, develop, maintain, and terminate relationships is one of the core issues in psychology, and the subject matter of this book. Contributors to this volume are all leading researchers in relationship science, and they seek here to explore and integrate the subtle influence that evolutionary, socio-cultural, and intra-psychic (cognitive, affective and motivational) variables play in relationship processes. In addition to discussing the latest advances in areas of relationship research, they also advocate an expanded theoretical approach that incorporates many of the insights gained from evolutionary psychology, social cognition, and research on affect and motivation. The contributions should be highly relevant to researchers, teachers, students, laypersons and to everyone who is interested in the subtleties of human relationships. The book is also highly recommended to clinical, health, and relationship professionals who deal with relationship issues in their daily work.
Copyright:
2008

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
368 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781135430160
Related ISBNs:
9781138882959, 9781841697154, 9780203888124
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Psychology, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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Edited by:
Joseph P. Forgas
Edited by:
Julie Fitness

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