Bücher der Reihe LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

Focuses on nonverbal messages and their role in close relationships - friends, family, and romantic partners. This book takes a functional perspective in its examination of how nonverbal messages work to signal affection, romantic interest, sexual attraction, dominance, and other roles.

The book explores the paradox of why affairs continue to be condemned as immoral at a time when the incidence of affairs continues to rise, and they have become the basic ingredients of soap operas, novels and the media.

The relational communication approach in a sole and unique book: theory, procedures, main research lines and contexts, and future directions described in a coodinated and comprehensive way.

This work explores "inappropriate relationships" across a range of definitions and circumstances. Scholars and researchers in relationship study, interpersonal communication, and sociology should find this work a useful resource for further study and research.

The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. This book offers a way to consider basic notions about how relationships form, such as how particular people meet, and how relationships are started. It is aimed at students and researchers in a variety of disciplines.

This text explores how memory, communication and social cognition function in the development of romantic relationships, and describes the stages of their development. Topics discussed include emotion and cognition about relationships and memory structures for developing relationships.

Serves as an initial attempt to understand the nature of difficulty in relationships and to place it in a broad context of human experience. This book extends the discussion of the "dark side" of relationships, emphasizing the whole process of relating.

Studies women and men as friends using a developmental perspective. The text examines cross-sex friendships from early childhood through to old age, then summarizes the findings and offers recommendations on how friendship between males and females can be encouraged throughout the life span.

Written for researchers, practitioners, parents and teachers, amongst others, this text describes the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It informs the reader about how drugs, adolescents and the social world affect an adolescent's relationship with his/her parents.

Julie Yingling considers communication and relationships through the lens of human development. Beginning with infancy and moving through adolescence to adulthood, the chapters examine communication and cognition in the various stages of human development.

Serves as an initial attempt to understand the nature of difficulty in relationships and to place it in a broad context of human experience. This book extends the discussion of the "dark side" of relationships, emphasizing the whole process of relating.