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| Preface | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Personal Relationships: An Introduction | |
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| Foundations for Studying Relationships | |
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| The Seven Seas of the Study of Personal Relationships: From "The Thousand Islands" to Interconnected Waterways | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Close Relationships | |
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| Research Methods for the Study of Personal Relationships | |
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| Advances in Data Analytic Approaches for Relationships Research: The Broad Utility of Hierarchical Linear Modeling | |
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| Relationship Typologies | |
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| Development of Relationships | |
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| From Courtship to Universal Properties: Research on Dating and Mate Selection, 1950 to 2003 | |
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| The Affective Structure of Marriage | |
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| Divorce and Postdivorce Relationships | |
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| Relationships Across the Life Span | |
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| Relationships in Early and Middle Childhood | |
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| Personal Relationships in Adolescence and Early Adulthood | |
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| Close Relationships in Middle and Late Adulthood | |
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| Individual Differences | |
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| Personality and Relationships: A Temperament Perspective | |
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| Attachment Theory, Individual Psychodynamics, and Relationship Functioning | |
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| "His" and "Her" Relationships? A Review of the Empirical Evidence | |
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| The Intimate Same-Sex Relationships of Sexual Minorities | |
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| Family Relationships and Depression | |
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| Basic Processes | |
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| Communication: Basic Properties and Their Relevance to Relationship Research | |
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| Social Cognition in Intimate Relationships | |
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| Emotion in Theories of Close Relationships | |
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| Physiology and Interpersonal Relationships | |
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| Interactive Processes | |
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| Self-Disclosure in Personal Relationships | |
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| Close Relationships and Social Support: Implications for the Measurement of Social Support | |
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| Understanding Couple Conflict | |
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| Sexuality in Close Relationships | |
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| Threats to Relationships | |
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| Loneliness and Social Isolation | |
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| Stress in Couples: The Process of Dyadic Coping | |
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| Lying and Deception in Close Relationships | |
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| Temptations and Threat: Extradyadic Relations and Jealousy | |
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| Violence and Abuse in Personal Relationships: Conflict, Terror, and Resistance in Intimate Partnerships | |
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| Relational Qualities | |
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| Relationship Satisfaction | |
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| Romantic Love | |
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| Commitment | |
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| Intimacy in Personal Relationships | |
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| Context | |
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| Social Networks and Personal Communities | |
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| Relationships in Home and Community Environments: A Transactional and Dialectic Analysis | |
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| Relationships, Culture, and Social Change | |
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| Personal Relationships: On and Off the Internet | |
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| Maintenance and Repair of Relationships | |
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| Maintaining Relationships | |
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| The Treatment of Relationship Distress: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bringing It All Together: A Theoretical Approach | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |