{"product_id":"the-new-science-of-intimate-relationships-isbn-9780631220787","title":"The New Science of Intimate Relationships","description":"Written by one of the world's leading authorities on close relationships, this accessible study is one of the first to look seriously at what science can tell us about love, sex and friendship.  Preface. \u003cp\u003e1. The New Science of Intimate Relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: THREE THEORETICAL PLANKS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Intimate Relationship Mind: Theories About Theories about Theories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Origins of the Intimate Relationship Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Love and Other Emotions in Intimate Relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Reading Minds and Personalities in Intimate Relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Communication and Relationship Success.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Attachment and Intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Selecting Mates and Relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III: SEX AND VIOLENCE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Sex and Passion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Strange Case of Aggression in Intimate Relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV: CONCLUSION.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Assembling the Intimate Relationship Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"With impeccable scholarship, sharp wit, and a beautiful writing style, Garth Fletcher showcases, explores, and debates some of the most important principles, ideas, and assumptions that define the new science of intimate relationships. Both experts and laypersons alike can glean important, new insights from each thought-provoking chapter. This wonderful book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the multifaceted reasons for how and why sexual relationships are initiated, developed, maintained, and sometimes terminated across the lifespan.\" \u003ci\u003eJeffrey Simpson, Professor of Psychology at Texas A\u0026amp;M University, and co-editor of Attachment Theory and Close Relationships and Evolutionary Social Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an important, fascinating, and delightful book. Garth Fletcher offers the reader an up-to-date summary of the most interesting and important work on human sexual relationships, and he pulls these pieces together with a grand and profound understanding of how -- and why -- people carry on intimate relationships. The book is so beautifully written that one moves easily from chapter to chapter, learning something new on almost every page.\" \u003ci\u003eRoy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, and author of The Social Dimension of Sex and Evil and Inside Human Violence and Cruelty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this lively new book, Garth Fletcher has provided a much needed interdisciplinary integration of the diverse scientific fields that study intimate relationships. Researchers will find their work ably presented in a volume that is scholarly, fiercely intelligent, and even-handed. Students and lay readers will also enjoy the many insights and discoveries so engagingly presented in this fascinating book.\" \u003ci\u003eLetitia Anne Peplau, Professor of Psychology at UCLA, and co-author of Social Psychology (10th. Edition) and co-editor of Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity: Current Research about Men and Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Garth Fletcher succeeds brilliantly at reaching just the right balance of rigorous scholarship and great storytelling… What I enjoyed most about this book was not only the fascinating tour of current research and theory, but also the sheer joy of science that underlies each chapter…a delightful and important book.” \u003ci\u003eAssociate Professor Nancy Collins, University of California at Santa Barbara, ISSPR Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA superb book…engagingly written, insightful, richly detailed, and admirably comprehensive. It is a joy to read. \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe New Science of Intimate Relationships\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold attempt to cover the landscape in a way that will appeal to lay readers, students, and researchers alike. Overall, Fletcher does a good job walking the fine line among these audiences... all readers will gain insights into their intimate relationship minds.\" \u003ci\u003eMark R. Leary, Wake Forest University, The Human Nature Review, Volume 3, 2003\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarth Fletcher\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and is a fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand, The Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the American Psychological Society. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Scientific Credibility of Folk Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and a co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCognition in Close Relationships\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eKnowledge Structures in Close Relationships\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) and the \u003ci\u003eBlackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e  In this elegantly written and provocative book, Garth Fletcher, one of the world's leading relationship scientists, provides an antidote to the avalanche of pop-psychology books on intimate relationships. Integrating the latest scientific work from social psychology and evolutionary psychology, with contributions from clinical psychology and anthropology, he analyses and answers questions such as:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow do people know they are in good relationships?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003edoes good communication produce successful relationships?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ewhere does love come from?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003edo men have stronger sex drives than women?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ewhy do people sometimes batter or kill their partners?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe answers provided are never less than fascinating and are often surprising. Fletcher dissects the arguments surging around evolutionary and social psychological theories. He also authoritatively describes the reality of the intimate lives and minds of both men and women, exploding the stereotypes and myths of pop psychology as he goes. Fletcher has written a book that is rigorous, and true to the science, but is also accessible and engagingly written.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990299132133,"sku":"NP9780631220787","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631220787.jpg?v=1761787257","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-new-science-of-intimate-relationships-isbn-9780631220787","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}