Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction to the Study of Intimate Relationships 1 The Building Blocks of Relationships 2 Research Methods Part 2 Getting Together and Basic Processes in Intimate Relationships 3 Attraction 4 Social Cognition 5 Communication 6 Interdependency Part 3 Friendship and Intimacy 7 Friendships 8 Love 9 Sexuality Part 4 Relationship Issues 10 Stresses and Strains 11 Power 12 Conflict and Violence Part 5 Losing and Enhancing Relationships 13 The Dissolution and Loss of Relationships 14 Loneliness 15 Maintaining and Repairing Relationships

About the Author

Rowland S. Miller is a Professor of Psychology at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He has been teaching a course in Close Relationships for over 25 years, and he won the 2008 Teaching Award from the International Association for Relationship Research (primarily as a result of this book). He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a winner of the Edwin Newman Award for Excellence in Research from Psi Chi and the American Psychological Association.