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. 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."

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"