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`There is a wide ranging reference list, which contributes to making Human Relationships an invaluable book for all students and professionals who want to understand interpersonal relationships from a wide perspective' - Therapeutic Communities

The Third Edition of this highly successful textbook provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the study and understanding of human relationships. This thoroughly revised edition combines the most recent research from social and clinical psychology, sociology and communication studies with greater interdisciplinarity and emphasis on processes of everyday life. Fresh insights from family studies, developmental psychology, occupational and organizational psychology also combine to bring new perspectives to this thorough survey of the field.

This new edition revisits the themes of attraction, heterosexual and homosexual love, friendship and our experiences of shyness, jealousy and loneliness to explain how and why relationships are established, sustained and sometimes break down. New coverage includes the examination of daily processes such as gossip, profanity, chatting, routines of behaviour and the social and linguistic frameworks for understanding and expressing feelings. Innovatively, these are placed in the social and cultural contexts that help relationships make sense, while the integration of theory with an even greater emphasis on its practical application demonstrates how a sound understanding of social and interpersonal behaviour can expand our understanding of the workings of everyday relationships in daily life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #464137 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

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`There is a wide ranging reference list, which contributes to making Human Relationships an invaluable book for all students and professionals who want to understand interpersonal relationships from a wide perspective' - Therapeutic Communities

About the Author

Steve Duck taught at two universities in the UK before taking up the Daniel and Amy Starch Distinguished Research Professorship in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Iowa in 1986 where he is also an Adjunct Professor of Psychology. He has taught several interpersonal communication courses, mostly on interpersonal communication and relationships, but also on nonverbal communication, communication in everyday life, construction of identity, and communication theory. Always by training an interdisciplinary thinker, Steve has focused on the development and decline of relationships from many different perspectives although he has also done research on the dynamics of television production techniques and persuasive messages in health contexts. Steve has written or edited 50 books on relationships and other matters, was the founder of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and its editor for its first 15 years. His 1994 book Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense and Relating won the G R Miller Book Award from the Interpersonal Division of the National Communication Association. Steve was the co-founder of the series of Interpersonal Conferences on Personal Relationships that began in 1982. He was the winner of the first Outstanding Graduate Mentor, University of Iowa 2001; the Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award National Communication Association (2004) for “dedication to excellence, commitment to the profession, concern for others, vision of what could be, acceptance of diversity, and forthrightness”. He wishes he could play the piano.