Personal relationships: an introduction; 1. The tides of change: recent trends and developments in close relationships research; 2. Theories and research in personal relationships; 3. Lift every voice: an inclusive perspective on considering methodological trade-offs in relationships research; 4. Dyadic data analysis: current issues and directions; 5. Relationship beginnings: selection and initiation; 6. Relationship development and growth; 7. The longitudinal course of couple relationships; 8.
Recent advances in research on children's friendships; 9. Personal relationships with parents and peers in adolescence; 10. Close relationships in middle and late adulthood; 11. Family systems and family relationships: family subsystems across diverse families; 12. Personality influences in relationships: how self-esteem, neuroticism, and agreeableness affect hurt feelings; 13. Internal working models of attachment: a lifespan perspective; 14. Ethnicity, culture, and close relationships: examining intraracial and interracial relationships; 15. Relationship neuroscience; 16.
Interpersonal social cognition and relationship evaluation; 17. Communication: basic properties and their relevance to relationship research; 18. How communal relational contexts shape (and are shaped by) emotional lives; 19. Self-disclosure in relationships: disclosure dynamics as a seismograph of relationship quality; 20. Social support in close relationships; 21. Understanding couple conflict; 22. Sexuality in relationships: highlights and oversights from recent research; 23. Transgressions, (un)forgiveness and revenge; 24.
Stress and dyadic coping; 25. Aggression and violence in romantic relationships; 26. Understanding the problem of loneliness and the challenge of addressing it; 27. Relationship dissolution; 28. Love in relationships; 29. Relationship satisfaction; 30. Commitment processes in close relationships; 31. Relationships and physical health; 32.
Social networks and personal relationships; 33. Friendships and acquaintanceships; 34. Technology and personal relationships; 35. Examining intimate relationships across black populations with a focus on context: socioeconomic status and racial discrimination; 36. Promoting healthy couple relationships; 37. Maintaining relationships; 38. Treating relationship distress; 39. Teaching relationship science; 40.
Relationship science: a hard look at the state of the science and an agenda for moving forward; Index.