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Intimate Relationshipscovers both classic and current material in a concise yet thorough and rigorous manner. Chapters range from attraction to love, attachment to jealousy, conflict to relationship dissolution -- all written in a warm, personal, and engaging voice.

Each chapter is organized around the major issues and relevant theories, in addition to a critical evaluation about the research. When appropriate, the authors discuss and evaluate popular ideas about relationship processes in the context of scientific research. This includes critical evaluations of evolutionary approaches to attraction, victim-based accounts of abuse, and the separate-cultures view of the sexes.

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• All chapters conclude
• ""Summary.""
• Preface
• 1 Strangers, Friends, and Lovers: Why Is Life So Complicated?
• The Need for Affiliation
• The Need for Intimacy
• The Need to Belong
• The Inevitability of Social Relationships
• Intimate Relationships Yesterday and Today
• 2 Methods to Study Relationships
• The Science of Intimate Relationships: Controversies and Issues
• Methodology: Data Collection
• Analysis: Before and After Data Collection
• 3 Physical Attraction
• Physical Attractiveness and Dating Choices
• Standards of Attract