1st Edition
Cognition, Communication, and Romantic Relationships
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 which relationships escalate and deteriorate, and consider the processes for such activities as... Read more
Contents: Overview. The Modern-Day Pursuit of Intimacy and Relational Memory Structures. Schemata, Scenes, and Scripts for Romantic Relationships. Memorable Messages, Prototypes, and Relational Memory. Emotion and Cognition About Relationships. Generating and Maintaining Relationships Through Imagined Interactions. Development of Relationships: Stage Theories Versus Relational Memory Theory. Memory Structures for Developing Relationships. Memory Structures for Decaying Relationships. Semantics of Breakups: Claims of Omission and Commission. Future Research on Relational Memory Structures.
Biography
Honeycutt, James M.; Cantrill, James G.
"Psychologists need to read the book Cognition, Communication, and Romantic Relationships precisely because it is written by communication scholars, not in spite of it. Psychologists who study social cognition might be surprised at the depth to which Honeycutt and Cantrill have thought about the many facets of cognition in close relationships....I highly recommend this book for graduate courses, scholars, and researchers. I particularly recommend it to psychologists who have yet to look for research ideas in another discipline."
—Contemporary Psychology
