The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships

Anita L. Vangelisti, Daniel Perlman

Cambridge University Press, Jun 21, 2018 - Psychology - 596 pages

With the field of personal relationships having grown dramatically in the past quarter century, The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships, Second Edition serves as a benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature, tracing its historical roots, and making recommendations for future directions. Written by internationally known experts from key disciplines, the Handbook addresses both fundamental questions and cutting-edge concerns. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments in analytical techniques, shifts in theoretical emphases, and an increased attention to social processes. New chapters include the Neuroscience of Salutary Close Relationships; Self-Disclosure in Relationships; Acceptance, Rejection, and the Quest for Relational Value; Relationships and Physical Health; Personal Relationships and Technology in the Digital Age; and Promoting Healthy Relationships. This compendium of state-of-the-art research and theory on personal relationships will be of great value to researchers, graduate students, and practitioners.

About the author

Anita L. Vangelisti is the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Professor of Communication at the University of Texas, Austin. She was co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series on Advances in Personal Relationships and has served on the editorial boards of over a dozen scholarly journals. Vangelisti served as President and is a Fellow of the International Association for Relationship Research and is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association.

Daniel Perlman is a Professor of Family Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Having trained as a social psychologist, he has taught at the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia, been president of four academic associations including the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships and the International Association for Relationship Research, and been editor or co-editor of four journals including Personal Relationships and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. For over fifty years he has found daily joy in being a close relationships researcher and academic.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships; Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
• Editors: Anita L. Vangelisti, Daniel Perlman
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018
• ISBN: 1107571200, 9781107571204
• Length: 596 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies; Psychology / Emotions; Psychology / General; Psychology / Social Psychology; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family