Description
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 are available at www.wiley.com/go/fletcher
Table of Contents
About the Authors xv
Preface xvi
Part One: Introduction 1
1 The Science of Intimate Relationships 3
2 Intimate Relationships in Context: Key Theories, Concepts, and Human Nature 14
Part Two: The Relationship Animal 39
3 The Intimate Relationship Mind 41
4 The Intimate Relationship Body 69
Part Three: Beginning Relationships: Att achment and Mate Selection 97
5 Born to Bond: from Infancy to Adulthood 99
6 Selecting Mates 125
Part Four: Maintaining Relationships:the Psychology of Intimacy 155
7 Love, Sweet Love 157
8 Reading Minds, Partners, and Relationships 184
9 Communication and Interaction 210
10 Sex and Passion 236
11 Relationship Violence 259
Part Five: Ending Relationships: the Causes and Consequences of Relationship Dissolution 285
12 Relationship Dissolution 287
Part Six: Conclusion 313
13 Assembling the Relationship Jigsaw 315
Glossary 327
References 338
Author Index 383
Subject Index 390
