Intimate Relationships

by Wind Goodfriend

Overview

Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook&Academic Authors Association (TAA)

Intimate Relationships provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the science behind relationships using a modern approach. Award-winning teacher and author Wind Goodfriend integrates coverage of family and friendship relationships in context with research methods, open science, theories, and romantic relationships so that readers can learn about all types of relationships and their interactions, including conflict and the dark side of relationships. The text supports today′s students by frequently applying relationship theories to examples that can be found in popular culture, helping students see how psychology can apply to the world that surrounds them.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506386133
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/30/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	41 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Wind Goodfriend has been named Faculty of the Year three times in her 19 years as a professor at Buena Vista University. This distinction is the result of an all-student vote, and her General Psychology course was chosen as the “Most Recommended” individual class in the entire university by the BVU newspaper. She has also won the Wythe Award, one of the largest collegiate teaching prizes in the nation. She has written over a dozen book chapters about psychology in pop culture, four textbooks for Sage, three Audible audiobooks about psychology, dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles, and has published over 30 journal articles featuring her undergraduate students as the first author. She also wrote and “starred” in a docuseries about the psychology of cult manipulation for The Great Courses. Wind won the 2023 Undergraduate Teaching&Mentoring Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1 • An Introduction to Relationship Science
Why Study Intimate Relationships?
What Are Different Kinds of Intimate Relationships?
How Is This Book Organized?
Chapter 2 • Research Methods and Analysis
What Research Methods Are Used to Study Relationships?
How Are Results Analyzed?
What Is “Open Science”?
Chapter 3 • Attachment Theory
What Is Attachment Theory, and How Was It Formed?
How Is Attachment Theory Measured and Applied to Adult Relationships?
What Are Important Questions For and About Attachment Theory?
Chapter 4 • The Evolutionary Perspective
How Is an Evolutionary Perspective Applied to Intimate Relationships?
How Does This Perspective Explain Sex Differences in Promiscuity and Jealousy?
How Can This Perspective Be Applied to Other Important Relationship Behaviors?
Chapter 5 • Interdependence Theory
What Are the Main Ideas Within Interdependence Theory?
What Factors Predict Relationship Commitment and Stability?
What Advances to the Theory Have Been Made?
Chapter 6 • Relationships Across Our Lifetime
How Do Our Earliest Relationships Form?
How Do We Choose Singlehood Versus Commitment in Young Adulthood?
How Do Relationships Change Later in Life?
Chapter 7 • Friendship
What Predicts How and When Friendships Will Form?
How Are Friendships Maintained?
How Do Friendships Change Over Our Lifetime?
Chapter 8 • Attraction
What Physical Factors Predict Attraction?
What Psychological Factors Predict Attraction?
What Environmental Factors Predict Attraction?
Chapter 9 • Sexuality
What Is the Sexual Spectrum?
How Do People Vary in Their Sexual Desires?
How Does Culture Influence Sexual Thoughts and Behaviors?
Chapter 10 • Social Cognition
How Are Impressions Formed and Maintained?
How Are We Biased Toward Our Current Partner?
How Do Our Worldviews Affect Our Relationships?
Chapter 11 • Communication and Conflict
How Can Communication Build Intimacy in Relationships?
How Has Technology Affected Communication in Relationships?
How Do Couples Engage in Conflict Management?
Chapter 12 • Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence
What Does Research Say About Sexual Assault and Rape?
What Does Relationship Violence Look Like?
How Do Survivors Escape and Heal?
Chapter 13 • Ending or Enduring Love
How Do Couple Members Cope With Relationship Problems?
What Can Couple Members Do to Maintain a Healthy Relationship Over Time?
References
Glossary
Index