Individuals in Relationships [Hardcover]

This volume features the latest scholarship on cognitive processes in interpersonal relationships. It explores such questions as: What special knowledge must a person have to participate in a relationship? What particular language structures do people typically use in entering or conducting relationships?

Contributors examine the cognitive processes that individuals bring to relationships, ranging from their thought patterns and attributional styles to the ways in which they recall relationship events and use shared knowledge.This volume features the latest scholarship on cognitive processes in interpersonal relationships. It explores such questions as: What special knowledge must a person have to participate in a relationship? What particular language structures do people typically use in entering or conducting relationships?

Contributors examine the cognitive processes that individuals bring to relationships, ranging from their thought patterns and attributional styles to the ways in which they recall relationship events and use shared knowledge.Cognitive Schemata in Personal Relationships - Peter A Andersen
Goals, Plans, and Mutual Understanding in Relationships - Charles R Berger
Memory Structures for the Rise and Fall of Personal Relationships - James M Honeycutt
How Do I Love Thee...? Let Me Consult My Prototype! - Beverly Fehr
Knowledge Structures and Explanations in Intimate Relationships - Garth J O Fletcher and Julie Fitness
You, Me, and Us - Linda K Acitelli
Perspectives on Relationship Awareness
Understanding Relationship Processes - Marcia Dixson and Steve Duck
Uncovering the Human Search for Meaning