Book description
The Science of Intimate Relationships represents the first
interdisciplinary approach to the latest scientific findings relating
to human sexual relationships.
- Offers an unusual degree of integration across topics, which
include intimate relationships in terms of both mind and body;
bonding from infancy to adulthood; selecting mates; love;
communication and interaction; sex; passion; relationship
dissolution; and more
- Summarizes the links among human nature, culture, and intimate relationships
- Presents and integrates the latest findings in the fields of
social psychology, evolutionary psychology, human sexuality,
neuroscience and biology, developmental psychology, anthropology,
and clinical psychology.
- Authored by four leading experts in the field
- Instructor materials are available at www. wiley. com/go/fletcher
Garth Fletcher is Professor of Psychology at Victoria
University Wellington. He is a fellow of five societies including the
Royal Society of New Zealand, the Association for
Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology, and has been associate editor of both
Personal Relationships and Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology. Fletcher has published over 100
articles and book chapters, and has authored and edited 6 books.
Jeffry A. Simpson is Professor of Psychology and Director of
the Doctoral Minor in Interpersonal Relationships (IREL) at the
University of Minnesota. He has been the editor of the journal
Personal Relationships and is currently the editor of
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal
Relations and Group Processes (JPSP-IRGP). Simpson is the
incoming president of the International Association for
Relationship Research, and has published nearly 200 articles and
chapters along with several edited books.
Lorne Campbell is Associate Professor of Psychology the
University of Western Ontario. He has published over 40 articles and
book chapters, serves on the editorial board of Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, and has been the editor of the journal
Personal Relationships.
Nickola Overall
is Senior Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Auckland, New
Zealand. She has published over 35 articles and book chapters, serves on
the editorial board of the
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, and is currently associate editor for
Personal Relationships
.
