Sexuality (SAGE Series on Close Relationships)

This portrait of sexuality in close relationships presents an extensive examination of current theory and research. Contributors pay particular attention to sexual attitudes, behaviour, satisfaction and coercion, and discuss sexual patterns in several types of sexual relationship: dating, cohabiting, marital and homosexual. They show how sexual aspects of these relationships are related to other characteristics such as love and communication.  Drawing material from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, communication and family studies, the volume also explores sexual standards, predictors of sexual attraction, sexual scripts, the initiation of sex and negotiating safe-sex behaviours.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McKinney, Kathleen

Sprecher, Susan

Psychology & Counseling

Sage Publications, Inc.

Mirror, Mirror… examines the hidden truth about good looks. Through extensive research of scholarly studies and popular culture, the authors provide a lively and comprehensive view of what behavioral scientists have learned about the effects of personal appearance. A wealth of illustrations and photographs give visual support to the evidence presented. The book explores the view that people believe good-looking individuals possess almost all the virtues known to humankind; consequently, they treat the good-looking and ugly very differently. Mirror, Mirror reviews the stereotypes held about people with specific characteristics and it explains the impact of height, weight, and attributes such as hair color, eye color and facial hair on the course of social encounters. The authors show that through time these reaction patterns have their effect and that good-looking and unattractive persons come to be different types of people. To show the relative nature of concepts of beauty, the authors also present examples of what other cultures consider attractive.

Mirror, Mirror: The Importance of Looks in Everyday Life

Hatfield, Elaine

State Univ of New York Pr

The Science of Compassionate Love: Theory, Research, and Applications

The Science of Compassionate Love is an interdisciplinary volume that presents cutting-edge scholarship on the topics of altruism and compassionate love. The book <ul>
<li>Adopts a social science approach to understanding compassionate love 
</li> <li>Emphasizes positive features of social interaction 
</li> <li>Encourages the appropriate expression of compassionate love both to those in intimate relationships and to strangers 
</li> <li>Includes articles by distinguished contributors from the fields of Psychology, Sociology, Communication Studies, Family Studies, Epidemiology, Medicine and Nursing 
</li> <li>Is ideal for workshops on compassionate love, Positive Psychology, and creating constructive interactions between health professionals and patients</li> </ul>

Self-Help

Fehr, Beverley

Underwood, Lynn G., Ph.D.

Relationships

Wiley/Blackwell

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