Intimate Relationships: The Third Edition

Author: (USA) Sharen Bream/Roland Miller/Daniel Perlmutter/Susan Campbell/Guo Hui/Xiao Bin
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: One of the features of this book is that it explores the understanding and judgments of close relationships by poets, playwrights, philosophers, and even medical professionals over a long period. Due to the neglect of close relationships by scientists for thousands of years, when popular psychology dominated the field of relationship studies, people's understanding and comprehension of interpersonal relationships were often superficial or even wrong. However, in the past 20 years, as recorded in this book, major changes have occurred in research in this area. Of course, we cannot expect this book to replace the verbose talk of popular psychologists on television or prevent the rampant spread of vulgar psychology books in bookstores. But at least, it directs people's understanding of relationship science toward a more academic, scientific, and standardized direction. In other words, it will give us a fresh perspective on love, marriage, commitment, friendship, passion, understanding, communication, intimacy, attachment, partner selection, jealousy, and other aspects. The so-called "close relationships" discussed in this book refer to how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in close relationships are interconnected. To explore this issue, the authors integrate theories and research findings from multiple branches such as social psychology, evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, and clinical psychology. As active scholars in the field of social psychology, they approach this with a rigorous attitude, seeking balance and integration across these numerous disciplines, and study the interaction between "innate factors" and "nurture."