Intimate Relationships / Edition 7

by Rowland Miller

Overview

Drawing on psychology, family studies, sociology, communication studies, and neuroscience, Intimate Relationships is a comprehensive and current overview of relationship science written in an engaging and accessible style. The seventh edition of this best-selling text includes new, thought-provoking teaching tools and over 600 new references.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780077861803
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	09/02/2014
Edition description:	List
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(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

Intimate Relationships, 8e

CHAPTER 1: The Building Blocks of Relationships
CHAPTER 2: Research Methods
CHAPTER 3: Attraction
CHAPTER 4: Social Cognition
CHAPTER 5: Commnication
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