Cover -- Half-title -- Series title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- ORGANIZATION OF THIS VOLUME -- REFERENCES -- PART ONE ACTORS: THE SCAFFOLDING OF STABILITY AND CHANGE -- CHAPTER ONE Change in Relationship Knowledge Representations -- RELATIONSHIP KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATIONS -- STABILITY IN RELATIONSHIP REPRESENTATIONS -- CHANGE IN RELATIONSHIP REPRESENTATIONS -- Characteristics of Change -- Speed of Change -- Momentum of Change -- Breadth of Change -- Direction of Change -- Mechanisms of Change -- Influence of the Temporary Context -- Influence of the Enduring Context -- FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS -- Relationship Representations: Static or Dynamic? -- Implicit versus Explicit Knowledge and Behavior -- Affect -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER TWO Personality Effects on Personal Relationships over the Life Span -- FOUR OBSTACLES TO EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF PERSONALITY EFFECTS ON RELATIONSHIPS -- EVIDENCE FOR PERSONALITY EFFECTS ON RELATIONSHIPS -- Effects of Parents and Infants on Infant-Parent Attachment -- Effects of Children's Aggressiveness on Their Relationships -- Effects of Shyness on Personal Relationships -- Personality Effects on Marital Relationships -- MECHANISMS OF PERSONALITY EFFECTS ON RELATIONSHIPS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER THREE An Intergenerational Model of Romantic Relationship Development -- THE THEORETICAL MODEL -- The Family of Origin -- Family Members' Positive versus Negative Attributions or Cognitions about Relationships -- Behavioral Interactional Processes and Parenting in the Family of Origin -- Emotional Stability versus Neuroticism -- Family of Origin Demographic Characteristics and Socioeconomic Status -- Mediators of Family of Origin Influences -- Relationship Success -- TESTING A PORTION OF THE DEARR MODEL.

Family of Origin Behavioral Interactions, 1989 to 1992: Observer Ratings -- The Young Adult Couple - Five Years Later -- Results -- Discussion -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FOUR How Relationships Begin and End -- ROMANTIC LOVE AND MATE SELECTION -- The Similarity Model -- The Idiographic Model -- Twins' Evaluations of Their Cotwins' Choices -- THE GENETICS OF DIVORCE -- WHAT IS ONE TO DO? -- If Your MZ Twin Gets Divorced, Is Your Own Marriage Doomed? -- If Love Is Blind, Can One Avoid the Rocks? -- THE PURPOSE OF RELATIONSHIPS -- REFERENCES -- PART TWO BEHAVIORS: THE PROCESSES OF STABILITY AND CHANGE -- REFERENCE -- CHAPTER FIVE Serial Arguing over the Relational Life Course -- THE NATURE OF SERIAL ARGUING -- Argumentative Episodes -- Issue-Focus -- Reoccurrence -- Pattern -- Form -- Participant Role -- SERIAL ARGUING ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE OF A RELATIONSHIP -- Negotiation -- Antecedents of Serial Arguing -- Courtship Conflict -- Transition to Marriage -- Child Rearing -- Divorce -- Relational Consequences -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER SIX Communication, Relationship Concerns, and Satisfaction in Early Marriage -- LONGITUDINAL EXPLORATION OF THE EARLY YEARS OF MARRIAGE -- Our Own Longitudinal Study -- CHANGE IN RELATIONSHIP FUNCTIONING OVER TIME -- Change in Satisfaction -- Change in Communication Patterns -- Quantity and Quality of Communication -- Frequency of Conflict -- Dealing with Conflict -- Nonverbal Accuracy -- Changes in Relationship Concerns -- Attachment -- Social Support -- Summary of Findings for Change over Time -- CHANGING PATTERNS OF ASSOCIATION WITH RELATIONSHIP FUNCTIONING -- Associations with Communication Patterns -- Quantity and Quality of Communication -- Frequency of Conflict -- Dealing with Conflict -- Nonverbal Accuracy -- Associations with Relationship Concerns -- Attachment -- Social Support -- PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER -- REFERENCES.

CHAPTER SEVEN Sacrifice in Romantic Relationships -- WHY LOOK AT SACRIFICE IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS? -- Definition of Sacrifice -- EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE BENEFITS OF SACRIFICE IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS -- Examples of Sacrifice: Accommodation and Editing -- THEORY ON THE POSITIVE ROLE OF SACRIFICE IN RELATIONSHIPS -- Long-Term View -- Couple Identity -- THEORY AND EVIDENCE FOR THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF SACRIFICE IN RELATIONSHIPS -- Attachment Theory -- Feminist Theory -- THE ROLE OF PERCEPTIONS IN SACRIFICE -- Preliminary Evidence Supporting the Crucial Role of Perceptions -- Other Influences on How Sacrifices Are Perceived -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER EIGHT Stability and Change in Social Relations -- BACKGROUND -- General Considerations Concerning Social Relationships and Well-Being -- Reasons Why Social Relationships May Promote Well-Being -- A Question of Gender -- A Question of Age -- A Question of Self-Esteem -- Social Relationships over Time -- Evidence for and about Stability in Social Relationships -- The Nature of Instability -- Social Support: An Integral Component of Social Relationships -- Caregiving as a Very Specific Type of Supportive Relationship -- Support: Who Provides It? -- Support as a Mediator of Stress -- A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF TRANSITIONS -- Background Information -- The Five Initial Contacts -- Sample Characteristics -- The Measures -- Activities Checklist -- Life Stressors -- Personal and Health Characteristics -- Comparative Stability in Social Activities -- Relationship of Self-Concept to Social Activities -- Forces of Change -- Stability in Self-Concept Attributes Related to Social Relationships -- SOME CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER NINE What Microanalysis of Behavior in Social Situations Can Reveal about Relationships across the Life Span -- OVERVIEW -- MICROANALYSIS OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR.

The Conceptual Terrain -- Controversies -- MAJOR METHODOLOGICAL CHOICES AND CAVEATS -- Sampling Choices -- Types of Participants or Dyads -- Tasks, Situations, Social Contexts -- Behavioral, Physiological, Cognitive, Mood Measures -- Level of Measurement: Categorical or Quantitative -- Sampling Frequency (in Relation to Cycles, Reaction Time, Response Latency) and Session Length -- Other Design Choices -- Research Questions for Future Microanalytic Life Span Studies -- DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER TEN Developing a Multifaceted View of Change in Relationships -- A FRAMEWORK OF CHANGE -- BACKGROUND -- WHO CHANGES? -- WHAT CHANGES? -- WHEN DO COUPLES CHANGE? -- CROSS-DOMAIN QUESTIONS -- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- PART THREE CONTEXTS: SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR STABILITY AND CHANGE -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Social Networks and Change in Personal Relationships -- THEORETICAL SYNTHESIS -- Change in the Dyad -- Processes by Which Networks Influence the Pair -- Network Attributes -- The Direction of Influence -- NETWORKS AND THE FORMATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND DISSOLUTION OF PREMARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- Networks and the "Readiness" to Form Partnerships -- Networks and the Likelihood That "P" Becomes Aware of and Interacts with "O" -- Networks and the Development of Mutuality in a Specific Relationship -- Networks and the Stability vs. Dissolution of the Relationship -- Changes in Social Networks as a Function of Changes in the Premarital Relationship -- SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MARRIAGE -- The Bott Hypotheses -- Social Networks and Marital Processes -- Social Networks and Divorce -- INFLUENCES OF SOCIAL NETWORKS ON INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER TWELVE Creating a Context for Change -- "CHANGE" AND COUPLE THERAPY -- "STABILITY" AND COUPLE THERAPY.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR TRADITIONAL AND INTEGRATIVE BEHAVIORAL COUPLE THERAPY -- INTEGRATIVE BEHAVIORAL COUPLE THERAPY -- Formulation -- Assessment -- Building Emotional Acceptance -- Using Both Acceptance and Change Techniques -- Stability, Change, and Outcome -- Short-Term vs. Long-Term Benefit -- Future Directions: Individual and Child Outcome -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Passionate Love and Sexual Desire -- DEFINITIONS OF PASSIONATE LOVE AND SEXUAL DESIRE -- Overview -- ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- The Cross-Cultural Data -- Susceptibility to Passionate Love -- Intensity of Passionate Love -- DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- Historical Differences in the Meaning of Passionate Love and Sexual Desire -- GAZING INTO THE FUTURE -- From Male Supremacy to Gender Equality -- The Pursuit of Happiness and the Avoidance of Pain -- A Belief That Things Can Change for the Better -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Rules for Responsive Robots -- VIRTUAL INTERACTIONS AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS -- DEFINING RESPONSIVE HUMAN INTERACTIONS -- SIMULATION TOOLS: MODELING VIRTUAL INTERACTION IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- Simulating the Behavior of Agents -- Structure -- Procedure -- Function -- Manipulation Techniques -- The Key-Frame Technique -- Script Language -- Performance Animation -- Task Specification -- Simulating Conversation between Agents -- Face-to-Face Conversation between Synthetic Agents -- Face-to-Face Conversation between a Synthetic Agent and a User -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- EMPIRICAL MODELS OF HUMAN SOCIAL INTERACTION -- Analytic Strategy -- Rules from the Behavior of Individuals -- Predicting Sequential Rules from Dyads -- Context Effects -- THE IMPORTANCE OF RESPONSIVE AND UNRESPONSIVE INTERACTIONS -- CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS.

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