1. Conceptualizing Relational Communication
2. Communicating Identity
3. Drawing People Together
4. Making Sense of Our World
5. Changing Relationships: Stages, Turning Points, and
Dialectics
6. Revealing and Hiding Ourselves
7. Communicating Closeness
8. Making a Love Connection
9. Communicating Sexuality: The Closest Physical Encounter
10. Staying Close
11. Coping With Conflict
12. Influencing Each Other
13. Hurting the Ones We Love
14. Healing the Hurt
15. Ending Relationships
Laura K. Guerrero (PhD, University of Arizona, 1994) is a professor
in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona
State University, where she teaches courses in relational
communication, nonverbal communication, emotional communication,
research methods, and data analysis. She has also taught at
the Pennsylvania State University and San Diego State
University. Her research focuses on communication in close
relationships, such as those between romantic partners,
friends, and family members. Her research has examined both
the “bright side” of personal relationships, including nonverbal
intimacy, forgiveness, relational maintenance, and
communication skill, and the “dark side” of personal
relationships, including jealousy, hurtful events, conflict, and
anger. She recently developed a theoretical framework (hurtful
events response theory) to explain patterns of communication
following hurtful events in close relationships. Dr. Guerrero has
published more than 100 journal articles and chapters related
to these topics. In addition to Close Encounters, her book
credits include Nonverbal Communication in Close
Relationships (coauthored with K. Floyd), Nonverbal
Communication (coauthored with J. Burgoon & K. Floyd), The
Handbook of Communication and Emotion (coedited with P. Andersen),
and The Nonverbal Communication Reader (coedited with M.
Hecht). She has received several research awards, including
the Early Career Achievement Award from the
International Association for Relationship Research, the
Dickens Research Award from the Western States Communication
Association, and the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from
the Interpersonal Communication Division of The International
Communication Association. Dr. Guerrero serves on editorial
boards for several top journals in communication
and relationships. She lives in Phoenix (during the school
year) and San Diego (during the summer) with her husband,
Vico, and their daughters, Gabrielle and Kristiana. She
enjoys reading, writing fiction (when not writing nonfiction),
dancing, and taking long walks in the mountains or on the
beach.
Peter Andersen (PhD, Florida State University) is a professor at
San Diego State University. The author of five books and more than
150 book chapters, research papers, and journal articles, he has
received recognition as one of the 100 most published scholars in
the field of communication. Walid A. Afifi (PhD, University of
Arizona) is professor in the Department of Communication at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches
interpersonal communication, relational communication, nonverbal
communication, and social marketing. His research revolves around
people’s experience of uncertainty and their decisions to seek or
avoid information in relational contexts.
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