Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships, Second Edition takes a relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication by focusing on issues that are central to describing and understanding close relationships. Although the primary focus is on communication research, this book emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the study of personal relationships by including research from various disciplines such as social psychology and family studies. Organized using a developmental approach, the authors first look at initial interaction and relational escalation, then move on to issues related to maintaining intimate relationships, and finally focus on challenges relational partners face, including relationship endings.
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Laura K. Guerrero has been at Arizona State since 1996 where she teaches a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels on relational communication, nonverbal communication, statistics, and research methods. Her research focuses on communication in close relationships, with special emphasis on nonverbal messages, emotion, and the "dark side" of interpersonal communication. In addition to Close Encounters, she is the co-author/co-editor of Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships (Erlbaum), The Nonverbal Communication Reader, 2/e (Waveland), and the Handbook of Communication and Emotion (Academic).
Walid A. Afifi (Ph.D. & M.A., Arizona State University; B.A., University of Iowa) teaches a variety of courses, including interpersonal communication, persuasion, theory construction, and quantitative methodology. His research interests focus around themes of expectation violations, uncertainty processes, and information-seeking, often within relational contexts. He is or has been a member of the following editorial journal boards: Personal Relationships (associate editor); Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; Women’s Studies in Communication; Communication Studies; Human Communication Research; Communication Quarterly.
Peter Andersen has authored more than 150 book chapters, research papers, and journal articles as well as 5 books. He has received recognition as one of the 100 most published scholars in the field of communication. His four most recent books are The Handbook of Communication and Emotion (Academic), Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions (McGraw-Hill), Close Encounters: Communicating in Relationships (McGraw-Hill), and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Body Language (Alpha). Andersen has recently published papers on communication and emotion, nonverbal communication, interpersonal relationships, risk communication, helmet safety, skin cancer communication, and Homeland Security.
Walid A. Afifi (Ph.D. & M.A., Arizona State University; B.A., University of Iowa) teaches a variety of courses, including interpersonal communication, persuasion, theory construction, and quantitative methodology. His research interests focus around themes of expectation violations, uncertainty processes, and information-seeking, often within relational contexts. He is or has been a member of the following editorial journal boards: Personal Relationships (associate editor); Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; Women’s Studies in Communication; Communication Studies; Human Communication Research; Communication Quarterly.
Peter Andersen has authored more than 150 book chapters, research papers, and journal articles as well as 5 books. He has received recognition as one of the 100 most published scholars in the field of communication. His four most recent books are The Handbook of Communication and Emotion (Academic), Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions (McGraw-Hill), Close Encounters: Communicating in Relationships (McGraw-Hill), and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Body Language (Alpha). Andersen has recently published papers on communication and emotion, nonverbal communication, interpersonal relationships, risk communication, helmet safety, skin cancer communication, and Homeland Security.
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One of the reviewers mentioned that there aren't a lot of changes to this edition, but don't be fooled into buying an old edition for a cheaper price. Although the chapters cover the same general topics, there is a lot of new information in this book. For example, this edition includes new versions of Duck's theory of relational dissolution and Baxter's dialectics theory, as well as research on chemical attraction, intimate terrorism, antisocial maintenance behavior, just to mention three of many topics, that aren't anywhere in the 2nd edition. Plus the chapter on closeness is really different.
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communicating identity, less relational satisfaction, active verbal responses, intimacy process model, indirect fighting, relational breakups, relational attraction, relational turbulence, cognitive valence theory, distributive communication, relational termination, preventive facework, external structural barriers, relational disengagement, close relational partners, corrective facework, social penetration theory, pragmatic lovers, manic lovers, topic avoidance, integrative communication, relational transgressions, nonverbal affection, relational dissolution, social composure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Put Yourself, Coping With Conflict, Love Connection, Making Sense of Our World, Hurting the Ones We Love, Drawing People Together, Ending Relationships, Communicating Closeness, Fair Deal, Getting Closer, Communicating Sexually, Playing With Power, Conceptualizing Relational Communication, Cindy's Facebook, Sage Publications, Staying Close, Staving Close, American Psychological Association, Psychology Today, Sierra Club, African American, Laura Stafford, Van Horn, John Gray Browse Sample Pages:
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