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The science of intimate relationships / Garth Fletcher, Jeffry A. Simpson, Lorne Campbell, and Nickola C. Overall

Title
The science of intimate relationships / Garth Fletcher, Jeffry A. Simpson, Lorne Campbell, and Nickola C. Overall
Author
Fletcher, Garth J. O.
Publication
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Simpson, Jeffry A.
  • Campbell, Lorne, 1973-
  • Overall, Nickola C.
Description
xvii, 396 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
"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 will be available upon publication"--
Subject
  • Intimacy (Psychology)
  • Sex (Psychology)
  • Interpersonal relations
  • PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
  • Interpersonal Relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-382) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. The Science of Intimate Relationships -- 2. Intimate relationships in Context: Key Theories, Concepts, and Human Nature -- 3. The Intimate Relationship Mind -- 4. The Intimate Relationship Body -- 5. Born to Bond: From Infancy to Adulthood -- 6. Selecting Mates -- 7. Love, Sweet Love -- 8. Reading Minds, Partners, and Relationships -- 9. Communication and Interaction -- 10. Sex and Passion -- 11. Relationship Violence -- 12. Relationship Dissolution -- 13. Assembling the Relationship Jigsaw .
ISBN
  • 9781405179195 (pbk.)
  • 9781118355169 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781118378700 (course) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2012042775
OCLC
  • 813858833
  • SCSB-11006722
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library