Love, Romance, Sexual Interaction

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

Nathaniel Pallone

1: Physical Appearance, Attractiveness, and the Mediating Role of Emotions; 2: Perfectionism, Beliefs, and Adjustment in Dating Relationships; 3: Identifying the Ideal Mate: More Evidence for Male-Female Convergence; 4: Perceived and Actual Characteristics of Parents and Partners: A Test of a Freudian Model of Mate Selection; 5: Beliefs about Relationships in Relation to Television Viewing, Soap Opera Viewing, and Self-Monitoring; 6: Marital Satisfaction and Conventionalization Examined Dyadically; 7: Dysfunctional Beliefs, Self-Monitoring, and Marital Conflict; 8: Testing the Investment Model of Relationship Commitment and Stability in a Longitudinal Study of Married Couples; 9: Commitment to One's Spouse as a Predictor of Marital Quality among Older Couples; 10: Gender Differences in Subjective Distress to Emotional and Sexual Infidelity: Evolutionary or Logical Inference Explanation?; 11: Infidelity, Race, and Gender: An Evolutionary Perspective on Asymmetries in Subjective Distress to Violations-of-Trust; 12: Strategies of Coping with Loneliness throughout the Lifespan; 13: Multiple Partners in the Age of AIDS: Self-Consciousness Theory and HIV Risk Behavior; 14: Attitudes Towards Prostitution among Males: A "Consumers' Report"