Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Theoretical Integration and Interdisciplinarity
in Relationship Science
Omri Gillath, Glenn Adams, and Adrianne Kunkel
I. Guiding Theoretical Approaches
II. Caring
III. Attraction and Relationship Initiation
IV. Attachment and Loss
Index
About the Editors
Omri Gillath, PhD, is an associate professor in the
Department of Psychology and the Hoglund Brain Imaging Center at
the University of Kansas. His work focuses on human pair bonding
and the effects of personality on cognition and behavior. He uses
diverse methodologies, including neuroimaging, gene mapping, and
advanced cognitive techniques, to explore the associations between
attachment style and cognitive performance, sexual motivation and
behavior, mating strategies, and caregiving behavior.
His recent funded work (through Templeton and the University of
Notre Dame) deals with the cognitive and neural underpinnings of
generosity. Before coming to the University of Kansas, he taught
and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of
California, Davis. He holds a BA in psychology from Haifa
University and a PhD in psychology from Bar-Ilan University.
Dr. Gillath has published extensively on the topic of interpersonal
relationships and relationship neuroscience in leading academic
journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and he
has given invited lectures at national and international
conferences on these topics. He is a member of the editorial board
of Personal Relationships, the Journal of Social and Personal
Relationships, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of
Research in Personality. He is a fellow of the Society of
Experimental Social Psychology.
Dr. Gillath received the 2011 Caryl Rusbult Close Relationships
Early Career Award from the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, the 2010 Sage Young Scholars Award from the Foundation
for Personality and Social Psychology, and the J. Michael Young
Academic Advisor Award from the University of Kansas.
Glenn Adams, PhD, is an associate professor in the
Department of Psychology at the University of Kansas and faculty
associate director of the Kansas African Studies Center. He served
for 3 years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone before
beginning the PhD program in social psychology at Stanford
University. While in graduate school, he spent 2 years in Ghana — 1
year with funding from the Social Science Research Council
International Predissertation Fellowship Program, another year with
a dissertation award from the J. William Fulbright Fellowship Board
— which provided the empirical foundation for his dissertation on
the topic of enemyship.
He continues to build on this foundation in his current research,
applying qualitative and quantitative techniques to investigate the
cultural–psychological foundations of personal relationships. His
other interests include a sociocultural analysis of racism and
oppression inspired by the theoretical perspective of liberation
psychology.
Adrianne Kunkel, PhD, is an associate professor in the
Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas.
She also serves as an associate faculty member for the
Gerontology/Life Span Institute and a courtesy faculty member for
the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University
of Kansas.
Dr. Kunkel teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses
in her primary department and has been recognized with several
teaching and mentoring awards over the past few years. Her research
interests include the emotional support and coping processes in
personal relationships and support group settings, romantic
relationship (re)definition processes, sex–gender similarities and
differences, social advocacy processes, and sexual harassment and
domestic violence prevention.
Dr. Kunkel has received grants from the University of Kansas to
study how people cope with distressing events through narrative,
how participation in support groups affects breast cancer
survivors, and how work and life intersect in an organization that
deals with domestic violence issues and services. On a national
level, she has received funding from the U.S. Health Resources and
Services Administration to study the processes that affect
satisfaction and perceived support in doctor–patient interaction,
particularly when mediated by emerging technologies.
Along with several book chapters, Dr. Kunkel has published articles
in many journals in communication studies, psychology, and grief
studies.
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