
Intimate Relationships, 9th Edition
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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 gender, sexual orientation, consensual non-monogamy, and transgender individuals' 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.
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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