The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships

This textbook provides an integrated and organized foundation for students seeking a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of relationship science. It emphasizes the relationship field's intellectual themes, roots, and milestones; discusses its key constructs and their conceptualizations; describes its methodologies and classic studies; and, most important, presents the theories that have guided relationship scholars and produced the field's major research themes.

About the Author

Ellen S. Berscheid, Regents' Professor of Psychology Emerita, University of Minnesota Pamela C. Regan, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles