Overview

Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships helps students learn about their own relationships with romantic partners, friends, and family members by focusing on issues that are central to describing and understanding close relationships. Best-selling authors Laura K. Guerrero, Peter A. Andersen, and Walid A. Afifi present research-based insights and content illustrated with engaging scenarios to show how state-of-the-art research and theory can be applied to specific issues within relationships. The updated Sixth Edition includes fresh content reflecting current research and trends in relationships, balanced with coverage of classic research, and continues to empower readers to be more critical consumers of information about relationships.

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Author:   Laura K. Guerrero ,  Peter A. Andersen ,  Walid Afifi
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Edition:   6th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   1.160kg
ISBN:  

9781544349220

ISBN 10:   154434922
Pages:   664
Publication Date:   06 October 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 • Conceptualizing Relational Communication: Definitions and Principles The Field of Personal Relationships: A Brief History Relationships Principles of Interpersonal Communication Principles of Relational Communication Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 2 • Communicating Identity: The Social Self The Development of Personal Identity Principles of Identity Management Communicating Identity to Others Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 3 • Drawing People Together: Forces of Social Attraction Attraction A Framework for Understanding Attraction Personal Qualities Other People’s Qualities Qualities of the Pair Qualities of the Physical or Social Environment Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 4 • Making Sense of Our World: Managing Uncertainty and Expectancy Violations What Is Uncertainty? Uncertainty Reduction Theory Secret Tests Predicted Outcome Value Theory The Theory of Motivated Information Management Relational Turbulence Theory Expectancy Violations Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 5 • Changing Relationships: Stages, Turning Points, and Dialectics Communication Skills Relationship Stages Turning Points Relational Dialectics Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 6 • Revealing and Hiding Ourselves: Self-Disclosure and Privacy Self-Disclosure Privacy Topic Avoidance and Secret Keeping Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 7 • Communicating Closeness: Affection, Immediacy, and Social Support Closeness in Relationships Affectionate Communication Immediacy Behavior Cognitive Valence Theory Supportive Communication Sex Differences in the Experience and Expression of Closeness Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 8 • Making a Love Connection: Styles of Love and Attachment What Is Love? Love Styles Attachment Theory Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 9 • Communicating Sexually: The Closest Physical Encounter Sexual Attitudes Casual Sex Sex in Relationships Communication About Sex Safe Sex Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 10 • Staying Close: Maintaining Relationships Defining Relational Maintenance Behaviors Used to Maintain Relationships Maintenance Behavior in Romantic Relationships Maintenance Behavior in Same-Sex Friendships Maintenance Behavior in Cross-Sex Friendships Maintenance Challenges in Other Relationships Equity Theory Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 11 • Coping With Conflict: When Relational Partners Disagree Conflict in Relationships Conflict Styles Patterns of Conflict Interaction Attributions During Conflict Communication Skill Deficits Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 12 • Influencing Each Other: Dominance and Power Plays in Relationships Defining Power and Related Terms Power Principles Interpersonal Influence Goals Verbal Power Ploys Nonverbal Positions of Power Traditional Versus Egalitarian Marriages Culture, Equality, and Power Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 13 • Hurting the Ones We Love: Relational Transgressions Hurt Feelings in Relationships Deception Infidelity Jealousy Unrequited Love Obsessive Relational Intrusion Relational Violence Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 14 • Healing the Hurt: Relationship Repair and Reconciliation The Investment Model of Relationship-Maintaining Behavior The Model of Accommodation Remedial Strategies Forgiveness Relational Reconciliation On-Again Off-Again Relationships Relational Redefinition: Can We Still Be Friends? Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Chapter 15 • Ending Relationships: Disengagement and Termination Why Relationships End Communication as a Cause of Breakups The Disengagement Process The Many Ways to Leave Your Partner The Bad and the Good of Relationship Endings Summary and Application Key Terms Discussion Questions Glossary References Author Index Subject Index About the Authors

Reviews

Close Encounters is a solid, well-written, and well-organized textbook for interpersonal communication. --Zuoming Wang This book is an excellent resource for any learner interested in knowing more about the research, theories, and ideas studied by interpersonal communication scholars. Not only can students develop a solid foundation about the field from this text, but they can frequently refer back as they deepen their understanding. --Carrie D. Kennedy-Lightsey Close Encounters is a great text for undergraduate students. The authors manage to balance breadth and depth; the book presents a variety of interpersonal topics and each topic is explored thoroughly, with relevant, up-to-date research. --Christine K. Anzur This text engages relationship research and theorizing to illuminate the complex experiences embedded in close relationships. --Colleen Warner Colaner Close Encounters is a text that makes heavy theories easy to grasp yet pushes our students to greater lengths of critical examination of their interpersonal relationships. --Anasheh Gharabighi

Close Encounters is a solid, well-written, and well-organized textbook for interpersonal communication. --Zuoming Wang This text engages relationship research and theorizing to illuminate the complex experiences embedded in close relationships. --Colleen Warner Colaner This book is an excellent resource for any learner interested in knowing more about the research, theories, and ideas studied by interpersonal communication scholars. Not only can students develop a solid foundation about the field from this text, but they can frequently refer back as they deepen their understanding. --Carrie D. Kennedy-Lightsey Close Encounters is a text that makes heavy theories easy to grasp yet pushes our students to greater lengths of critical examination of their interpersonal relationships. --Anasheh Gharabighi Close Encounters is a great text for undergraduate students. The authors manage to balance breadth and depth; the book presents a variety of interpersonal topics and each topic is explored thoroughly, with relevant, up-to-date research. --Christine K. Anzur

Author Information

Laura K. Guerrero (PhD, University of Arizona, 1994) is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses in relational communication, nonverbal communication, emotional communication, research methods, and data analysis. She has also taught at the Pennsylvania State University and San Diego State University. Her research focuses on communication in close relationships, such as those between romantic partners, friends, and family members. Her research has examined both the “bright side” of personal relationships, including nonverbal intimacy, forgiveness, relational maintenance, and communication skill, and the “dark side” of personal relationships, including jealousy, hurtful events, conflict, and anger. She recently developed a theoretical framework (hurtful events response theory) to explain patterns of communication following hurtful events in close relationships. Dr. Guerrero has published more than 100 journal articles and chapters related to these topics. In addition to Close Encounters, her book credits include Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships (coauthored with K. Floyd), Nonverbal Communication (coauthored with J. Burgoon & K. Floyd), The Handbook of Communication and Emotion (coedited with P. Andersen), and The Nonverbal Communication Reader (coedited with M. Hecht). She has received several research awards, including the Early Career Achievement Award from the International Association for Relationship Research, the Dickens Research Award from the Western States Communication Association, and the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of The International Communication Association. Dr. Guerrero serves on editorial boards for several top journals in communication and relationships. She lives in Phoenix (during the school year) and San Diego (during the summer) with her husband, Vico, and their daughters, Gabrielle and Kristiana. She enjoys reading, writing fiction (when not writing nonfiction), dancing, and taking long walks in the mountains or on the beach. Peter Andersen (PhD, Florida State University) is a professor at San Diego State University. The author of five books and more than 150 book chapters, research papers, and journal articles, he has received recognition as one of the 100 most published scholars in the field of communication. Walid A. Afifi (PhD, University of Arizona) is professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches interpersonal communication, relational communication, nonverbal communication, and social marketing. His research revolves around people’s experience of uncertainty and their decisions to seek or avoid information in relational contexts.

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