Summary
Contents
Subject index
Understanding Research in Personal Relationships is a comprehensive introduction to the key readings on human and close relationships. Organized into twelve thematic chapters with editorial commentary throughout, the Editors offer a critical reading of the major research articles in the field of relationship studies published in the last few years. Scholarly papers, two per chapter, are presented in an abridged form and critiqued in a carefully structured way that instructs students on the way to read research, and to critically evaluate research in this field. The book, therefore, has a thoroughly didactic focus as the student is given historical, theoretical and methodological contexts to each article as well as an explanation of key terms and ideas.
Attraction
One of the earliest enterprises undertaken by the first researchers into human relationships was an attempt to understand the things that create initial attraction - the first response that indicates a positive overall attitude to another person and starts the growth of liking and perhaps ...
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