Attribution, Communication Behavior, and Close Relationships (Advances in Personal Relationships)
Cambridge University Press, 2/28/2011
EAN 9780521177276, ISBN10: 0521177278
Paperback, 406 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
Language: English
The field of close relationships is one of the most fertile areas of work in the social and behavioural sciences. Central to theoretical developments in the study of close relationships is a focus on people's interpretive activities and communication behavior. Theories of attribution and of communication styles are prominent in explanations of why and how people begin close relationships, maintain and enhance closeness, and sometimes terminate close relationships. Originally published in 2001, Attribution, Communication Behavior, and Close Relationships brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines whose work focuses on the interplay of attribution processes and communication behavior in close relationships. The book shows ways in which diverse scholarly perspectives can blend to provide insight into areas of common interest. In this case, it is the ways that people in relationships think about communication, make attributions through communication, and communicate about the attributions they make.
List of contributors
Introduction Valerie Manusov
Part I. Attribution, Affect, and Well-Being in Relationships
1. Affective influences on communication and attributions in relationships Joseph P. Forgas
2. Communication and attribution
an exploration of the effect of music and mood on intimate couples' verbal and nonverbal conflict resolution behaviors James M. Honeycutt and Michael E. Eidenmuller
3. Making sense of hurtful interactions in close relationships
when hurt feelings create distance Anita L. Vangelisti
4. The association between accounts of relationship development events and relational and personal well-being Jeanne Flora and Chris Segrin
Commentary
affect, attribution, and communication
uniting interaction episodes and global relationship judgments Denise Haunani Solomon
Part II. Attributions and Communication in Dating and Marital Relationships
5. Attributions, communication, and the development of a marital identity Catherine A. Surra and Denise S. Bartell
6. Causal attributions of relationship quality Ellen Berscheid, Jason Lopes, Hilary Ammazzalorso, and Nora Langenfeld
7. The content of attributions in couples' communication Valerie Manusov and Jody Koenig
8. Handling pressures for change in marriage
making attributions for relational dialectics Patricia Noller, Judith A. Feeney and Anita Blakely-Smith
9. The role of marital behavior in the longitudinal association between attribution and marital quality Matthew D. Johnson, Benjamin R. Karney, Ronald Rogge, and Thomas N. Bradbury
10. Stepping into the stream of thought
cognition during marital conflict Alan Sillars, Linda J. Roberts, Tim Dun, and Kenneth Leonard
Commentary
thanks for the curry
advancing boldly into a new millennium of relationship attribution research Frank D. Fincham
Part III. New Directions and Contexts for Attributions and Communication
11. Attributions and regulative communications by parents participating in a community-based child physical
abuse prevention program Steven R. Wilson and Ellen E. Whipple
12. 'True lies'
children's abuse history and power attributions as influences on deception detection Daphne Blunt Bugental, William Shennum, Mark Frank, and Paul Ekman
13. HIV-infected persons' attributions for the disclosure of the seropositive diagnosis to significant others Valerian J. Dergla and Barbara A. Winstead
14. Attributions about communications styles and strategies
prediciting dating couples' safe-sex discussions and relationship satisfaction Candida C. Peterson, Ashlea Troth, Cynthia Gallois, and Judith Feeney
15. Why do people have affairs? Recent research and future directions about attributions for extramarital involvement David Atkins, Sona Dimidjian, and Neil Jacobson
16. Attribution in social and parasocial relationships Rebecca B. Rubin and Alan M. Rubin
Commentary
extending attribution theory
contributions and cautions Sandra Metts
Part IV. A Discussion of Attribution Theory for Close Relationships
17. The status of attribution theory qua theory in personal relationships Brian H. Spitzberg
18. Are there superior options? Commentary on Spizberg's 'the status of attribution theory qua theory in personal relationships' John H. Harvey and Julia Ormazu
Index.