" Meaningful Relationships" challenges the reader to step off traditional academic pathways
in the pursuit of understanding the nature of human relationships. The author, Steve Duck, …

argue that relational maintenance contains two elements/the first is strategic planning for the
continuance of the relationship; and the second is the breezy allowance of the relationship …

This chapter is designed to provide an overview of theoretical issues in relational processes
after dissolution by focusing on account-making of premarital postdissolution relationships (…

This book summarizes the research on relationships, focusing not only on their growth and
development but also on their negative aspects, breakdown and repair. The author …

This paper outlines three problems that are foreseen to face us as we enter the 1990s. These
are: (1) defining the nature of relationships in the face of discrepancies between the reports …

This article presents a program of studies that map out daily conversations and so establish
a geography of everyday communication. A new method (the Iowa Communication Record) …

This article argues that an essential piece in the puzzle of everyday communication is the
history that exists among conversational partners. Three types of history are examined as …

If loneliness inclines people to a general hostility towards others and to a disparaging style
about social interaction, then the style should appear in studies of lonely people interacting …

In considering the prevailing theoretical representation of personal relationships as
interpersonal states (and development of relationships as movement between states or levels of …

We present a detailed framework for understanding the numerous and complicated
interactions among psychological and social determinants of pain through examination of the …