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Intimate Relationships
July 2020 | 464 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)
Intimate Relationships provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the science behind relationships using a modern approach. Award-winning teacher and author Wind Goodfriend integrates coverage of family and friendship relationships in context with research methods, open science, theories, and romantic relationships so that readers can learn about all types of relationships and their interactions, including conflict and the dark side of relationships. The text supports today's students by frequently applying relationship theories to examples that can be found in popular culture, helping students see how psychology can apply to the world that surrounds them.
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Intimate Relationships provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the science behind relationships using a modern approach. Award-winning teacher and author Wind Goodfriend integrates coverage of family and friendship relationships in context with research methods, open science, theories, and romantic relationships so that readers can learn about all types of relationships and their interactions, including conflict and the dark side of relationships. The text supports today's students by frequently applying relationship theories to examples that can be found in popular culture, helping students see how psychology can apply to the world that surrounds them.
Included with this title:
The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides. Learn more.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1 • An Introduction to Relationship Science
Chapter 2 • Research Methods and Analysis
Chapter 3 • Attachment Theory
Chapter 4 • The Evolutionary Perspective
Chapter 5 • Interdependence Theory
Chapter 6 • Relationships Across Our Lifetime
Chapter 7 • Friendship
Chapter 8 • Attraction
Chapter 9 • Sexuality
Chapter 10 • Social Cognition
Chapter 11 • Communication and Conflict
Chapter 12 • Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence
Chapter 13 • Ending or Enduring Love
References
Glossary
Index
Supplements
Instructor Resource Site
edge.sagepub.com/goodfriend1e
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The online resources for your text are available via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site, which offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
edge.sagepub.com/goodfriend1e
Online resources included with this text
The online resources for your text are available via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site, which offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.
This textbook is quite comprehensive, providing a clear understanding of intimate relationships and the theoretical constructs and models implied in those dynamics. I also considers a chapter on intimate partner abuse, which is particularly relevant to my students.
Dept of Psychology (Kedleston Cps), Derby University
March 21, 2022
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 1, An Introduction to Relationship Science
Chapter 2. Research Methods and Analysis