LEA's Series on Personal Relationships
Women and Men As Friends: Relationships Across the Life Span in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Michael Monsour
October 01, 2001
This monograph studies women and men as friends from a developmental perspective. Women and Men as Friends examines cross-sex friendships from early childhood through old age, then summarizes the findings and offers recommendations on how friendship between males and females can be encouraged ...
Time and Intimacy: A New Science of Personal Relationships
1st Edition
By Joel B. Bennett
November 01, 2000
There is a mysterious connection between our experiences of intimacy--of love, the longing to feel connected, and sexual embrace--and the human sense of time--eternity, impermanence, and rhythm. In this critical analysis of the time-intimacy equation, Bennett shows how the scientific study of ...
Cognition, Communication, and Romantic Relationships
1st Edition
By James M. Honeycutt, James G. Cantrill
August 01, 2000
Cognition, Communication, and Romantic Relationships focuses on the role of memory, communication, and social cognition in the development of romantic relationships. The authors review developmental models of communication and examine criticisms of these models. They also explore the stages through...
Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use
1st Edition
By Michelle A. Miller-Day, Janet Alberts, Michael L. Hecht, Melanie R. Trost, Robert L. Krizek
February 01, 2000
Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use explores the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It focuses on peer norms, risk, and protective factors and considers how drugs are offered to adolescents, examining such factors as who makes the offers and how they are resisted, where...