Close relationships : functions, forms, and processes / edited by Patricia Noller and Judith A. Feeney.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The needs, benefits, and perils of close relationships / J. A. Simpson and S. Tran -- The changing social context of relationships / C. M. Bryant, J. M. Bolland, L. Burton, T. Hurt, and B. M. Bryant -- Studying close relationships : methodological challenges and advances / J. A. Feeney -- Marital relations / P. Noller -- Parent-child relationships : contemporary perspectives / R. D. Parke, K. Morris, T. Schofield, M. Leidy, M. Miller, and M. Flyr -- Parent-adolescent relationships / W. A. Collins and B. Laursen -- Sibling relationships in childhood and adolescence / S. M. McHale, J. Kim, and S. Whiteman -- Adult friendship : a decade review / K. Ueno and R. G. Adams -- Interethnic relationships / S. O. Gaines Jr., R. A. R. Gurung, Y.Lin, and N. Pouli -- Attachment across the lifespan / C. Hazan, M. Campa, and N. Gur-Yaish -- Intimacy and the self : an iterative model of the self and close relationships / S. L. Gable and H. T. Reis -- Passionate love, sexual desire, and mate-selection : cross-cultural and historical perspectives / E. Hatfield and R. L. Rapson -- Mate-selection : adaptive problems and evolved cognitive programs / D. Lieberman -- Sexuality in close relationships / S. Sprecher -- Emotion and cognition in close relationships / J. Fitness -- What partners do to maintain their close relationships / K. Dindia and T. M. Emmers-Sommer -- From bickering to battering : destructive conflict processes in intimate relationships / Linda J. Roberts -- Relationship dissolution : antecedents, processes and consequences / A. L. Vangelisti.