Looseleaf for Intimate Relationships

by Rowland Miller

Overview

Intimate Relationships is a comprehensive survey of relationship science that draws on social psychology, communication studies, family studies, sociology, clinical psychology, neuroscience, demography, and economics. The ninth edition has unmatched currency and breadth. It has new or substantially expanded treatment of gender, sexual orientation, consensual non-monogamy, and transgenders’ relationships. It speaks to, and includes, everyone. From back burner relationships to stealthing and selfishness and on to humility and life history theory, everything new and cutting-edge in relationship science is here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781264164240
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	02/26/2021
Edition description:	9th ed.
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.87(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rowland S. Miller is a Professor of Psychology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He has been teaching a course in Close Relationships for over 25 years, and he won the 2008 Teaching Award from the International Association for Relationship Research (primarily as a result of this book). He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a winner of the Edwin Newman Award for Excellence in Research from Psi Chi and the American Psychological Association.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1 THE BUILDING BLOCKS of RELATIONSHIPS
CHAPTER 2 RESEARCH METHODS
CHAPTER 3 ATTRACTION
CHAPTER 4 SOCIAL COGNITION
CHAPTER 5 COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER 6 INTERDEPENDENCY
CHAPTER 7 FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER 8 LOVE
CHAPTER 9 SEXUALITY
CHAPTER 10 STRESSES AND STRAINS
CHAPTER 11 CONFLICT
CHAPTER 12 POWER AND VIOLENCE
CHAPTER 13 THE DISSOLUTION AND LOSS OF RELATIONSHIPS
CHAPTER 14 MAINTAINING AND REPAIRING RELATIONSHIPS

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