Love Romance Sexual Interaction Research Perspectives from Current Psychology

This volume brings together in a single resource fourteen empirical studies examining a variety of emotions and behaviors covering many aspects of love romance and sexual interaction from recent issues of Current Psychology. Scholars from universities and research centers bring under the empiricist's microscope a variety of emotions and behaviors ranging from dating relationships criteria for the ideal mate held by both men and women the relationship between perceptions of parents and partners in a direct test of psychoanalytic conceptualizations of mate selection how the media influence perceptions about love and romance sources of marital conflict gender differences in responses to infidelity and even the attitudes of consumers toward prostitution. Contributors and topics of discussion include: Albert Mehrabian and Jeffrey S. Blum Physical Appearance Attractiveness and the Mediating Effect of Emotions; Gordon L. Flett Paul L. Hewitt Brenley Shapiro and Jill Rayman Perfectionism Beliefs and Adjustment in Dating Relationships; Robert Ervin Cramer Jeffrey T. Schaefer and Suzanne Reid Identifying the Ideal Mate: More Evidence for Male-Female Convergence; Glenn Geher Perceived and Actual Characteristics of Parents and Partners: A Freudian Model of Mate Selection; Claudia J. Haferkamp Beliefs about Relationships in Relation to Television Viewing Soap Opera Viewing and Self-Monitoring; Blaine J. Flowers and Brooks Applegate Marital Satisfaction and Conventionalization Examined Didactically; Claudia J. Haferkamp Dysfunctional Beliefs Self-Monitoring and Marital Conflict; Emily A. Impett Kristin P. Beals and Letitia A. Peplau Testing the Investment Model of Relationship Commitment and Stability in a Longitudinal Study of Married Couples; Richard Clements and Clifford H. Swensen Commitment to One's Spouse as a Predictor of Marital Quality among Older Couples; Robert Ervin Cramer William Todd Abraham Lesley M. Johnson Barbara Manning-Ryan Gender Differences in Subjective Distress to Emotional and Sexual Infidelity; William Todd Abraham Robert Ervin Cramer Ana Maria Fernandez and Eileen Mahler Infidelity Race and Gender; Ami Rokach Strategies of Coping with Loneliness throughout the Lifespan. | Love Romance Sexual Interaction Research Perspectives from Current Psychology