Social Psychology, The Science of Everyday Life, Second Edition, Social Psychology: The Science of Everyday Life, Second Edition by Greenberg, Jeff -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Front Matter

Cover Page LearningCurve Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Authors Brief Contents Contents Preface

Chapter 1 The Revealing Science of Social Psychology

The Roots of Social Psychology

An Instinct-Based View of Human Behavior Psychoanalytic Theory: The Hidden Desires That Guide Behavior Behaviorism: Behavior Is Shaped by Experience The Emergence of Modern Social Psychology Toward an Integrated Perspective on Human Behavior

The Four Core Assumptions of Social Psychology

1. Behavior Is a Joint Product of the Person and the Situation 2. Behavior Depends on a Socially Constructed View of Reality 3. Behavior Is Strongly Influenced by Our Social Cognition 4. The Best Way to Understand Social Behavior Is to Use the Scientific Method

Cultural Knowledge: The Intuitive Encyclopedia

Explaining Behavior Through Introspection

People Don’t Always Tell the Truth People Often Don’t Really Know What They Think They Know

Explaining Behavior Using Intuitive Observation

Our Observations Come from Our Own Unique and Limited Perspective Our Reasoning Processes May Be Biased to Confirm What We Set Out to Assess The Act of Observing May Change the Behavior We Seek to Explain

The Scientific Method: Systematizing the Acquisition of Knowledge

The Cycle of Theory and Research in Social Psychology Stereotype Threat: Case Study of a Theory Research: The Correlational Method

The Correlation Coefficient Correlation Does Not Imply Causation Longitudinal Studies

Research: The Experimental Method

How Experiments Make Causal Inference Possible Controlling the Impact of Individual Differences by Random Assignment Experimental and Correlational Research in Concert Field Research and Quasi-Experimental Methods

Theory Building: The Engine of Scientific Progress

What Makes for a Good Theory in Social Psychology?

Organizes Observations Explains Observations Provides Direction for Research Generates New Questions Has Practical Value

Assessing Abstract Theories with Concrete Research

Measuring and Manipulating What We Intend Can the Findings Be Generalized? Can the Findings Be Replicated?

The Limitations of Science

Ethical Considerations in Research

Harming Research Participants Deceiving Research Participants Ethical Safeguards

Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Social Behavior

Evolution: How Living Things Change over Time

Natural Selection Survival of the Fittest: Yes, but What Is Fittest?

General Adaptations of the Cultural Animal

Humans Are Social Beings Humans Are Very Intelligent Beings

Imagination: The Possibility of Possibilities Symbolic Thought and Language: The Great Liberators The Self Conscious and Nonconscious Aspects of Thinking

Humans Are Motivated, Goal-Striving Beings

Needs and Goals Hedonism: Approaching Pleasure, Avoiding Pain The Two Fundamental Psychological Motives: Security and Growth Application: An Example of the Hierarchy of Goals: Rita and Her Shoelaces

Humans Are Very Emotional Beings

The Wide-Ranging Palette of Emotions How Cognitions Influence Emotions How Emotions Affect Cognition

Culture: The Uniquely Human Adaptation

What Is Culture?

The Common yet Distinctive Elements of Culture Out in the World: Food for Body, Mind, and Soul

Culture as Creative Adaptation

Cultural Diffusion: Spreading the Word Cultural Transmission

How Culture Helps Us Adapt

Culture and the Natural Environment

Application: Cultural Ripples of Environmental Change

Culture, Cognition, and Perception

Culture and the Social Environment

The Uncertainties of Group Living How Individuals Relate to Each Other: Individualism/Collectivism The Nature of the Self Fitting In and Sticking Out Emotion Modernization and Cultural Values

Culture and the Metaphysical Environment

Creation Stories Institutions, Symbols, and Rituals: Worldview Transmission and Maintenance Bases of Self-Worth: Standards, Values, Social Roles, and Self-Esteem Striving for Immortality The Essential Role of Social Validation The Threat of Other Cultures: A Root Cause of Prejudice Empirical Tests of TMT Defending the Worldview The Protective Shield of Cultural Beliefs Is Death the Factor Responsible for These Findings?

Culture as a Synthesis of Human-Created Adaptations

Application: Culture and Thinking Styles

Culture in the Round: Central Issues

Does Culture Illuminate or Obscure Reality? Is Culture a Good or Bad Thing? Is There Just One Culture? Beyond a Monolithic View At the Movies: Black Robe

Chapter 3 The Core Elements of Social Cognition

The “Why” of Social Cognition: The Motives Behind Thinking The “How” of Social Cognition: Two Ways to Think About the Social World

The Strange Case of Facilitated Communication Dual Process Theories

Application: Two Routes to Engaging in Risky Health Behavior Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Automaticity and Controlled Processes

The Smart Unconscious

Application: Can the Unconscious Help Us Make Better Health Decisions?

The “What” of Social Cognition: Schemas as the Cognitive Building Blocks of Knowledge

Knowledge Is Stored in Mental Structures Called Schemas

Scripts: Schemas About Events Impressions: Schemas About People Schemas Can Change

Where Do Schemas Come From? Cultural Sources of Knowledge

Rumors and Gossip Mass Media Biases

How Do Schemas Work? Accessibility and Priming of Schemas

Can Priming Change Our Impressions of Others? Can Priming Change Our Behavior? Application: Using Priming to Prevent Infection

Confirmation Bias: How Schemas Alter Perceptions and Shape Reality

Application: Confirmation Bias and Climate Change When Objective Information Is Used to Justify Bias Biased Information Gathering The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Limits on the Power of Confirmation Biases Out in the World: A Scary Implication: The Tyranny of Negative Labels

Beyond Schemas: Metaphor’s Influence on Social Thought

Returning to the “Why”: Motivational Factors in Social Cognition and Behavior

Priming and Motivation Motivated Social Cognition

The Need for Accuracy The Need to Reach Closure Quickly At the Movies: Pi The Need to Validate What We Already Believe Application: “Seeing” the Play

Mood and Social Judgment The Next Step Toward Understanding Social Understanding

Chapter 4 Thinking About People and Events

Remembering Things Past

How Are Memories Formed? How Do We Remember?

Memory for Schema-Consistent and Schema-Inconsistent Information The Misinformation Effect Application: Eyewitness Testimony The Availability Heuristic and Ease of Retrieval Application: What Is Your Risk of Disease?

Inferring Cause and Effect in the Social World

Common Sense Psychology

Basic Dimensions of Causal Attribution Application: School Performance and Causal Attribution Fixed and Incremental Mind-Sets

Automatic Processes in Causal Attribution

The Fundamental Attribution Error Application: Judging Others How Fundamental Is the FAE? Application: Finger-Pointing Does the FAE Occur Across Cultures?

Dispositional Attribution: A Three-Stage Model Elaborate Attributional Processes

Causal Hypothesis Testing Three Kinds of Information: Consistency, Distinctiveness, and Consensus At the Movies: Casablanca Motivational Bias in Attribution Out in the World: “Magical” Attributions

Forming Impressions of People

Beginning with the Basics: Perceiving Faces, Physical Attributes, and Group Membership Impression Formation

Building an Impression from the Bottom Up: Decoding the Behaviors and Minds of Others Building an Impression from the Top Down: Perceiving Others Through Schemas Stereotypes and Individuation

Changing First Impressions

What If, If Only: Counterfactual Thinking

The More Easily We Can Mentally Undo an Event, the Stronger Our Reaction to It

Application: Awarding Damages

Upward Counterfactuals Downward Counterfactuals

Upward and Downward Counterfactuals and Personal Accomplishments: The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat Is It Better to Generate Upward or Downward Counterfactuals?

Chapter 5 The Nature, Origins, and Functions of the Self

External Influences on the Self-Concept

The Influence of Culture on the Self-Concept The Influence of Gender on the Self-Concept Stable and Malleable Aspects of the Self-Concept

How Do We Come to Know the Self?

Reflected Appraisals: Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of Others

Errors in Reflected Appraisals

Social Comparison: Knowing the Self Through Comparison with Others

Errors in Social Comparison Correcting Errors of Comparison

Self-Perception Theory: Knowing the Self by Observing One’s Own Behavior

Using One’s Movements to Know the Self Errors of Self-Perception

Using the Self to Know One’s Feelings

At the Movies: The Self Lost or Found in Black Swan

Self-Regulation: Here’s What the “I” Can Do for You

Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation

Self-Awareness Promotes Behaving in Line with Internal Standards Application: Escaping from Self-Awareness What Feelings Does Self-Awareness Arouse?

Staying on Target: How Goals Motivate and Guide Action

Pursuing Goals: Desire and Attainability Activating Goals: Getting Turned On Defining Goals as Concrete or Abstract

Self-Regulation and the Psychology of Time

Basing Decisions on Abstract Versus Concrete Ideas Predicting How We’ll Feel Making Better Forecasts

Self-Regulatory Challenges

Willpower: Running Hot and Cool

Out in the World: Neurological Underpinnings of Self-Regulation

Trying Too Hard: Ironic Process Theory

Possible Causes of the Rebound Effect Minimizing Ironic Processing

Insufficient Energy or Diminished Motivation

Ego Depletion: Mental Fatigue Is Like Muscle Fatigue Critiques of the Ego Depletion Concept

Getting Our Emotions Under Control

Application: What Happened to Those New Year’s Resolutions? Implementing and Maintaining Your Good Intentions Application: The Power of Prevention

When We Can’t Let Go: Self-Regulatory Perseveration and Depression

Chapter 6 The Key Self-Motives: Consistency, Esteem, Presentation, and Growth

The Motive to Maintain a Consistent Self

Self-Consistency at the Micro Level: Cognitive Dissonance Theory

The Free Choice Paradigm The Induced Compliance Paradigm Factors That Affect the Magnitude of Dissonance Cultural Influences Applications of Dissonance Theory Out in the World: Dissonance can Make for Better Soldiers

Self-Consistency at the Macro Level: Sustaining a Sense of the Self as a Unified Whole

Self-Consistency Across Situations My Story: Self-Consistency Across Time Application: Stories That Heal Application: Educational Achievement

The Self-Esteem Motive: Establishing and Defending One’s Value

What Is Self-Esteem, and Where Does It Come From? Maintaining and Defending Self-Esteem

Self-Serving Attributions Self-Handicapping The Better Than Average Effect Projection Symbolic Self-Completion Compensation and Self-Affirmation Social Comparison and Identification Application: An Example of Everyday Self-Esteem Defenses—Andrea’s Day

Why Do People Need Self-Esteem?

Self-Esteem as an Anxiety-Buffer Social Functions of Self-Esteem

The Influence of Treatment by Others: Ostracism Protecting and Enhancing Self-Esteem: Cultural Differences Types of Self-Esteem

Application: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Self-Esteem

Should We Stop Caring About Self-Esteem?

Self-Presentation: The Show Must Go On

The Dramaturgical Perspective

Sincere Versus Cynical Performances Self-Presentational Strategies Application: The Unforeseen Consequences of Self-Presentation

Individual Differences in Self-Presentation Audience-Monitoring Errors The Goals of Self-Presentation

Motives for Growth and Self-Expansion

Self-Determination Theory The Overjustification Effect: Undermining Intrinsic Motivation

Application: How to Maximize Self-Growth Pursue Goals That Support Core Needs Get in the Zone Act Mindfully Expand Your Mind: Challenge Yourself and Explore the World Foster a Positive Mood Challenge Versus Threat At the Movies: Blue Jasmine Even Traumatic Experiences Can Promote Growth

Chapter 7 Social Influence

Learning from Others

Social Learning Theory

Application: Harmful Media-Inspired Social Learning

Social Priming

Application: Using Norms to Preserve

Social Contagion

Application: Psychogenic Illness

The Social Construction of Reality

Culturally Defined Social Situations Culturally Defined Social Roles

Conformity

Asch Conformity Studies What the Asch Conformity Studies Teach Us About Why People Conform What Personality and Situational Variables Influence Conformity?

Application: Conformity in Juries

Neural Processes Associated with Conformity

Minority Influence

How Minorities Exert Their Influence

Application: How Minorities Can Be More Influential

At the Movies: 12 Angry Men

Compliance: The Art and Science of Getting What You Want

Self-Perception and Commitment Reciprocity Social Proof Scarcity Mindlessness

Application: Mind Recycling Toward Sustainability?

Obedience to Authority

Other Variables That Play a Role in Obedience Anticipating Your Questions Why Do We Obey?

Out in the World: Death in the Voting Booth

The Role of Charisma in the Rise to Power

Application: Historical Perspectives

Chapter 8 Persuasion, Attitudes, and Behavior

Elaboration Likelihood Model: Central and Peripheral Routes to Persuasion Motivation to Think Ability to Think Why It Matters

Characteristics of the Source

Communicator Credibility

The Appearance of Expertise and Trustworthiness The Sleeper Effect

Communicator Attractiveness Communicator Similarity

Application: Similarity and Morality in Politics

Characteristics of the Message

Thinking Differently: What Changes Our Minds

Argument Strength Confident Thoughts About the Message Statistical Trends Versus Vivid Instances The Order of Presentation: Primacy Versus Recency

Emotional Responses to Persuasive Messages

Repetition and Familiarity Linking the Message to Positive Stimuli Cognitive Balance and Positive Associations Positive Mood Negative Emotions Application: Is Death Good for Your Health? Out in the World: This is Like that: Metaphor’s Significance In Persuasion

Characteristics of the Audience

Persuadability Initial Attitudes Need for Cognition and Self-Monitoring

Argo: The Uses of Persuasion

Regulatory Focus

Application: Using Regulatory Focus to Get the Most out of a Message

Resistance to Persuasion

Knowing What to Resist Being Motivated to Resist

Application: Reactance in Jury Decision Making

Resisting Strategically: Attitude Inoculation Consequences of Forewarning

Recognizing Legitimate Appeals Making the Effort to Resist

The Relationship Between Attitudes and Behavior

Why Attitudes Often Don’t Predict Behavior Factors That Affect How Well Attitudes Predict Behavior

Matching the Attitude to the Behavior Self-Presentational Concerns Implicit Attitudes The Strength of the Attitude The Accessibility of the Attitude

How Attitudes Influence Behavior

Application: Understanding Risky Behavior

Chapter 9 Group Processes

What Is a Group? Why Do People Join and Identify with Groups?

Promoting Survival and Achieving Goals Reducing Uncertainty Bolstering Self-Esteem Managing Mortality Concerns

Cooperation in Groups

Social Dilemmas and the Science of Cooperation

The Prisoner’s Dilemma Out in the World: When Cooperation is the Key to Economic Growth And Stability Resource Dilemmas Distribution Games

When Do People Cooperate? Why Do People Cooperate? Fairness Norms: Evolutionary and Cultural Perspectives

Performance in a Social Context

Performing in Front of Others: Social Facilitation

Social Facilitation Theory, Take 1: When Others Improve Performance Social Facilitation Theory, Take 2: Others Facilitate One’s Dominant Response The Role of Arousal The Role of Evaluation

Performing with Others: Social Loafing

Low Accountability High Expected Effort from Others High Perceived Dispensability Caring Decreases Loafing

Social Facilitation and Social Loafing Compared Deindividuation: Getting Caught Up in the Crowd

Group Decision Making

Group Polarization

Exposure to New Persuasive Arguments Application: Polarization and Social Media Trying to Be a “Better” Group Member

Groupthink

Application: Improving Group Decision Making Increasing Group Diversity Reinterpreting Group Cohesiveness Encouraging Individuality Planning to Be Objective

Leadership, Power, and Group Hierarchy

What Makes a Leader Effective?

At the Movies: Milk: Charismatic Leadership Style

Power Changes People

Loosened Inhibitions Less Empathy

Hierarchy in Social Groups

Legitimizing Hierarchy What Causes Collective Action?

Why Do People Leave and Disidentify with Groups?

Promoting Survival Reducing Uncertainty Bolstering Self-Esteem Managing Mortality Concerns

Chapter 10 Understanding Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

The Nature of Prejudice: Pervasiveness and Perspective The Roots of Prejudice: Three Basic Causes

Hostile Feelings Linked to a Category Ingroup Bias: We Like Us Better Than Them Ethnocentrism, the Cultural Worldview, and Threat

Symbolic Racism Terror Management Theory

The Prejudiced Personality Has Prejudice Become Less Prevalent over Time?

Desegregation Realities Complexities of Modern Prejudice

Ambivalent Racism Aversive Racism

Implicit Prejudice

Out in the World: Do Americans Live in a Postracial World? Physiological Measures of Bias Cognitive Measures of Implicit Bias

Stereotyping: The Cognitive Companion of Prejudice

Where Do People’s Stereotypic Beliefs Come From?

A Kernel of Truth Social Role Theory At the Movies: Gender Stereotypes in Animated Films, then and now The Stereotype Content Model Illusory Correlations

Why Do We Apply Stereotypes?

1. Stereotypes Are Cognitive Tools for Simplifying Everyday Life 2. Stereotypes Justify Prejudices 3. Stereotypes Help Justify Violence and Discrimination Against Outgroups 4. Stereotypes Justify the Status Quo 5. Stereotypes Are Self-Esteem Boosters

How Do Stereotypes Come into Play?

Categorization Stereotype Activation

How Do Stereotypes Contribute to Bias?

Application: Stereotypes Influence Perception Interpreting Behavior The Ultimate Attribution Error The Linguistic Intergroup Bias Stereotypes Distort Memory Application: Stereotypes Tend to Be Self-Confirming

Chapter 11 Responding to and Reducing Prejudice

Prejudice from a Target’s Perspective

Perceiving Prejudice and Discrimination

Individual Differences in Perceiving Prejudice Motivations to Avoid Perceptions of Prejudice Application: Is Perceiving Prejudice Bad for Your Health?

The Harmful Impact of Stereotypes on Behavior

Confirming Stereotypes to Get Along Objectification Stereotype Threat Social Identity Threat

What’s a Target to Do? Coping with Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Coping with Stereotype and Social Identity Threat

Identify with Positive Role Models Reappraise Anxiety Affirm Broader Values

Coping with Prejudice and Discrimination: Social Strategies

Confront Those with Biases Compensate for Other’s Biases Application: The Costs of Concealing Seek Social Support

Coping with Prejudice and Discrimination: Psychological Strategies

Blame the Bias, Not Oneself Devalue the Domain Out in the World: One Family’S Experience of Religious Prejudice

Reducing Prejudice

Working from the Top Down: Changing the Culture Connecting Across a Divide: Controlling Prejudice in Intergroup Interactions

A Dual Process View of Prejudice Prejudice Isn’t Always Easily Controlled The Downsides of Control Strategies

Setting the Stage for Positive Change: The Contact Hypothesis

The Robbers Cave Study Why Does Optimal Contact Work? When Do the Effects of Contact Generalize Beyond the Individual? At the Movies: Remember the Titans Does Contact Increase Positive Attitudes? Application: Implementing Optimal Contact in a Jigsaw Classroom

Reducing Prejudice Without Contact

Perspective Taking and Empathy Reducing Prejudice by Bolstering the Self Reducing Prejudice with a More Multicultural Ideology

Final Thoughts

Chapter 12 Interpersonal Aggression

Defining Aggression

The Role of Intention The Harm Caused by Aggression Affective and Instrumental Aggression Measuring Aggression

Biology and Human Aggression

An Ethological Perspective The Physiology of Aggression

Brain Regions Body Chemistry Application: The Hazards of Puberty

Natural-Born Pacifists Uniquely Human Aspects of Aggression

Technology Outstrips Natural Controls on Aggression The Human Mind Specializes in Self-Control

Situational Triggers of Aggression: The Context Made Me Do It

The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

Displaced Aggression Arbitrariness of the Frustration Attacks, Insults, and Social Rejection

When Do Hostile Feelings Lead to Aggression? The Cognitive Neoassociationism Model

Physical Pain and Discomfort The Role of Arousal in Aggression

Priming Aggressive Cognitions Inhibitors of Aggression

Learning to Aggress

Media and Aggression

What Is the Appeal of Media Violence? The Basic Evidence for Violent Media’s Contributing to Aggression How and Why Does Watching Violence Contribute to Aggression in Viewers? At the Movies: Violence on Film: Taxi Driver Application: Family Life and Aggression

Culture and Aggression

Comparing National Cultures Comparing Subcultures Within Nations Out in the World: Race and Violence in Inner-City Neighborhoods

Individual Differences in Aggression

Gender Differences in Aggression Trait Aggressiveness

Why Are Some People High in Trait Aggressiveness?

Intelligence Personality Traits and Reactivity to Provocation

Narcissism and Deficits in Self-Esteem Individual Differences in Impulsivity

The Roles of Alcohol and Other Drugs in Aggression Violence Against Women

Domestic Violence Sexual Coercion and Rape

Reducing Aggression

Societal Interventions Interpersonal Interventions Individual Interventions

Chapter 13 Prosocial Behavior

The Basic Motives for Helping

Human Nature and Prosocial Behavior

Kin Selection: Hey, Nice Genes! Sociability, Attachment, and Helping

Out in the World: A Real Football Hero

Reciprocal Helping Biological Bases of Helping

Learning to Be Good

Does Altruism Exist?

Social Exchange Theory: Helping to Benefit the Self Empathy: Helping to Benefit Others

At the Movies: Prosocial Behavior in the Hunger Games

The Social and Emotional Triggers of Helping

Similarity and Prejudice The Empathy Gap The Role of Causal Attributions Other Prosocial Feelings

Guilt A Communal Feeling The Recipient’s Gratitude Feeling Socially Secure

Priming Prosocial Feelings and Behavior

Positive Affect Priming Prosocial Roles Priming Mortality Priming Religious Values

Why Do People Fail to Help?

The Bystander Effect

Application: Steps to Helping—or Not!—in an Emergency

Population Density

Who Is Most Likely to Help?

An Altruistic Personality? Individual Differences in Motivations for Helping The Role of Political Values

Application: Using Political Values to Protect the Environment

The Role of Gender

Application: Toward a More Prosocial Society

Chapter 14 Interpersonal Attraction

The Need to Belong

Why Do We Need to Belong?

The Need to Belong Can Be Satisfied When the Need to Belong Is Satisfied, People Thrive Application: When the Need to Belong Is Unmet, Health Suffers

Where Did This Need Come From?

The Basics of Interpersonal Attraction

Proximity: Like the One You’re Near The Reward Model of Liking Others’ Attributes Can Be Rewarding

Transference Culturally Valued Attributes and Personality Traits

Attraction to Those Who Fulfill Needs

Similarity in Attitudes and Personality Do Opposites Ever Attract? Similarity in Perceptions If You Like Me, I’ll Like You! Flattery

Physical Attractiveness

The Importance of Physical Attractiveness, and Why

The Physical Attractiveness Stereotype, AKA the Halo Effect The Reach of the Attractive Advantage Is the Attractiveness Stereotype True? Why Do We Associate Beautiful with Good?

Common Denominators of Attractive Faces

The Averageness Effect Symmetry Why Are “Average,” Symmetrical Faces Attractive?

Do Men and Women Differ in What They Find Attractive? An Evolutionary Perspective

For Men, Signs of Fertility For Women, Signs of Masculinity and Power Questions and Controversies About the Evolutionary Perspective

Attraction in Same-Sex Relationships Cultural and Situational Influences on Attractiveness

Status and Access to Scarce Resources Media Effects Out in the World: Living up to Unrealistic Ideals Application: Online Dating and Attraction Is Appearance Destiny?

Gender Differences in Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors

An Evolutionary Perspective Cultural Influences

Culturally Shaped Motives Cultural Norms Norms and Reporting of Attitudes and Behavior

Your Cheating Heart: Reactions to Infidelity

Early Research Modern Perspectives Research in Support of the Evolutionary Perspective Critiques At the Movies: Attraction in Best in Show A Final Thought on the Evolutionary Perspective

Chapter 15 Close Relationships

What Makes Close Relationships Special

Parasocial Relationships Why Are Close Relationships So Important?

This Thing Called Love

Romantic Love Culture and Love Psychological Theories of Love

Attachment Theory: Love’s Foundation Terror Management Theory: Love and Death The Self-Expansion Model: Love as a Basis of Growth

Models of the Experience of Love

Schachter’s Two-Factor Theory: Love as an Emotion Sternberg’s Triangular Model of Love

Cost–Benefit Perspectives on Relationships

The Social Exchange Model Equity Theory Assortative Mating

Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Relationships

Cross-Cultural Differences in Romantic Commitment Out in the World: Historical Differences in Long-Term Commitment

The Time Course of Romantic Relationships

Self-Disclosure Rose-Colored Lenses? Adjusting to Interdependency Marital Satisfaction?

Partners Start with Unrealistic Expectations Slacking Off Small Issues Get Magnified Sore Spots Are Revealed Unwelcome Surprises Appear Passionate Love Loses Steam

When the Party’s Over . . . The Breakup

Application: So What Can You Do to Facilitate theRecovery Process?

Are We All Doomed, Then?

Long-Term Relationships: Understanding Those That Dissolve and Those That Thrive

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Application: One Day at a Time: Dealing with the Ups and Downs

And in the Red Corner: Managing Conflict Booster Shots: Keeping the Relationship and Passion Alive

Love as Flow At the Movies: Husbands and Wives Emotional Support Application: Keeping the Home Fires Burning

Back Matter

Glossary References Name Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Subject Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

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