Emotion, Social Relationships, and Health [Paperback]

Contributors
1. Introduction: Integrating Emotion into the Study of Social Relationships and Health,Carol D. Ryff and Burton H. Singer
2. Meta-Emotion, Children's Emotional Intelligence, and Buffering Children from Marital Conflict,John Gottman
CommentaryVictoria von Sadovszky and Kathryn E. Angell
3. Relationship Experiences and Emotional Well-Being,Harry T. Reis
CommentaryAngela Cloninger
4. Group Psychotherapy for Women with Breast Cancer: Relationships among Social Support, Emotional Expression, and Survival,David Spiegel and Rachel Kimerling
CommentaryVicki Aken
5. Elective Afinities and Uninvited Agonies: Mapping Emotions with Significant Others onto Health,Carol D. Ryff et al.
6. How Do Others Get under Our Skin? Social Relationships and Health,Teresa Seeman
CommentaryChristine M. L. Kwan
7. Social Relationships and Susceptibility to the Common Cold,Sheldon Cohen
CommentaryTed Robles
8. Social Context and Other Psychological Influences on the Development of Immunity,Christopher L. Coe and Gabriele R. Lubach
CommentaryTeresa M. Reyes
Author Index
Subject Index

Papers and commentary from the 1997 Third Annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion delve into the nature of emotional interaction with significant others and its role in illuminating the established ties between social relationships and health. Contributors from the fields of affective science, clinical and social psychology, epidemiology, psychoneuroimmunology, and health address how to observe and evaluate social interactions in clinical, laboratory, or daily life contexts, and link emotional experience to health outcomes. Ryff teaches psychology at the University of Wiscol“+