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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 consensual non-monogamy, and the breadth of gender in 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.

Preface

1 The Building Blocks of Relationships

2 Research Methods

3 Attraction

4 Social Cognition

5 Communication

6 Interdependency

7 Friendship

8 Love

9 Sexuality

10 Stresses and Strains

11 Conflict

12 Power and Violence

13 The Dissolution And Loss of Relationships

14 Maintaining and Repairing Relationships

Name Index

Subject Index

About the Author

Rowland Miller

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.

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