The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) ISBN-13: 9780521826174

Author: Vangelisti, Anita L.

Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 914

ISBN-13: 9780521826174

Release Date: 05-06-2006

Languages: English

Binding: Hardcover

Package Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches

Details: Review “The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships is a comprehensive and invaluable source of information on personal relationships, which is currently unparalleled in the literature. It is highly recommended for students and researchers from different disciplines, who are dealing with the ever interesting topics of close relationships.” –Hans-Werner Bierhoff, Department of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Relationship Research News”Highly recommended for academic libraries.” — American Reference Books Annual Product Description With the field of personal relationships having grown dramatically in the past quarter century, this volume serves as a benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature, tracing its historical roots, and making recommendations for future directions. The authors are international experts from a variety of disciplines including several subfields of psychology, communication, family studies and sociology who have made major contributions to the understanding of relationships. Book Description This book serves as a benchmark of the current state of scholarship regarding personal relationships. About the Author Anita Vangelisti currently teaches courses at the University of Texas, Austin on communication in personal relationships, family communication, communication and emotion, empirical research methods, and interaction analysis. Her work focuses on how communication affects, and is affected by, emotions and interpretive processes such as attribution. She has published articles in journals such as Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personal Relationships, Family Relations, the Journal of Adolescent Research, and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.Daniel Perlman is an academic psychologist with broad, applied interests that cut across social, developmental and clinical psychology as focused on the study of close relationships. He is a Professor of Family Studies in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He was President of the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships and the Canadian Psychological Association. He has authored and edited over 50 articles and 15 books and edited works.