Close relationships provide a fundamental context for human behaviour and development and as such the study of close relationships has in recent years become a major theme in social psychology. This field produces rich and diverse research that can be daunting to access. Psychology of Close Relationships emphasizes original empirical investigations, as well as including conceptual papers that set the stage for relationship science or that build basic theories.

Volume One: Theoretical Foundation - Why Relationships Matter focuses on basic theoretical arguments about the importance of relationships for human behaviour and demonstrations of the consequences of relationships for health and well-being.

Volume Two: Attraction and Relationship Development covers the initiation and development of relationships by looking at classic processes such as similarity, proximity, familiarity and attractiveness, as well as material on friendship formation, self-disclosure, and intimacy.

Volume Three: Relationship Cognition and Emotion includes articles on the emotional and cognitive processes that characterize relationships.

Volume Four: Relationship Maintenance Processes delves into the processes relevant to maintaining and enhancing relationships and investigates interdependence theory, the leading approach to this topic.

Volume Five: Relationship Deterioration reviews research on the nature of relationship instability and deterioration, as well as what is known about their causes and consequences.

VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS - WHY RELATIONSHIPS MATTER
PART ONE: THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION TO CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS
The Greening of Relationship Science - Ellen Berscheid
The Need to Belong - Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary
Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental Human Motivation
Evolutionary Approaches to Relationships - Douglas Kenrick and Melanie Trost
Personality in Context - Vivian Zayas, Yuichi Shoda and Ozlem Ayduk
An Interpersonal Systems Perspective
Beyond Positive Psychology? Toward a Contextual View of Psychological Processes and Well-Being - James McNulty and Frank Fincham
The Unrecognized Stereotyping and Discrimination against People Who Are Single - Bella DePaulo and Wendy Morris
What Do We Know about Gay and Lesbian Couples? - Lawrence Kurdek
PART TWO: RELATIONSHIPS, SOCIAL SUPPORT, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Social Relationships and Mortality Risk - Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy Smith and J. Bradley Layton
A Meta-Analytic Review
The Relationship between Social Support and Physiological Processes - Bert Uchino, John Cacioppo and Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
A Review with Emphasis on Underlying Mechanisms and Implications for Health
Social Support, Conflict and the Development of Marital Dysfunction - Lauri Pasch and Thomas Bradbury
Invisible Support and Adjustment to Stress - Niall Bolger, Adam Zuckerman and Ronald Kessler
Toward an Interactional Description of Depression - James Coyne
Interpersonal Predictors of Onset of Depression during the Transition to Adulthood - Nicole Eberhart and Constance Hammen
PART THREE: RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
Age and Sex Differences in Perceptions of Networks of Personal Relationships - Wyndol Furman and Duane Buhrmester
Taking Time Seriously - Laura Carstensen, Derek Isaacowitz and Susan Charles
A Theory of Socio-Emotional Selectivity
VOLUME TWO: ATTRACTION AND RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT
PART ONE: SIMILARITY AND ATTRACTION
The Prediction of Interpersonal Attraction - Theodore Newcomb
Attitudes and Attraction - Donn Byrne
Inferred Evaluation and the Relation between Attitude Similarity and Interpersonal Attraction - John Condon and William Crano
Match Makers and Deal Breakers - David Watson et al
Analyses of Assortative Mating in Newlywed Couples
Is Actual Similarity Necessary for Attraction? A Meta-Analysis of Actual and Perceived Similarity - R. Matthew Montoya, Robert Horton and Jeffrey Kirchner
PART TWO: FAMILIARITY, PROXIMITY AND RECIPROCITY
Exposure Effects in the Classroom - Richard Moreland and Scott Beach
The Development of Affinity among Students
Spatial Ecology - Ebbe Ebbesen, Glenn Kjos and Vladimir Kone?ni
Its Effects on the Choice of Friends and Enemies
Selective versus Unselective Romantic Desire - Paul Eastwick et al
Not All Reciprocity Is Created Equal
PART THREE: ATTRACTIVENESS
Physical Attractiveness - Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Walster
What Is Beautiful Is Culturally Good - Ladd Wheeler and Youngmee Kim
The Physical Attractiveness Stereotype Has Different Content in Collectivistic Cultures
Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior - Mark Snyder, Elizabeth Decker Tanke and Ellen Berscheid
On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes Intimacy and Friendship Development
The Rules of Friendship - Michael Argyle and Monika Henderson
Communication in Interpersonal Relationships - Dalmas Taylor and Irwin Altman
Social Penetration Processes
Intimacy as an Interpersonal Process - Harry Reis and Phillip Shaver
Interpersonal Attraction in Exchange and Communal Relationships - Margaret Clark and Judson Mills
VOLUME THREE: RELATIONSHIP COGNITION AND EMOTION
PART ONE: ATTACHMENT THEORY
Attachment-Related Psychodynamics - Phillip Shaver and Mario Mikulincer
Avoidance of Intimacy - Kim Bartholomew
An Attachment Perspective
Attachment Working Models and the Sense of Trust - Mario Mikulincer
An Exploration of Interaction Goals and Affect Regulation
A Safe Haven - Nancy Collins and Brooke Feeney
An Attachment Theory Perspective on Support-Seeking and Care-Giving Processes in Intimate Relationships
PART TWO: EMOTION IN RELATIONSHIPS
The Relation between Inequity and Emotions in Close Relationships - Susan Sprecher
Taking on Board Liability-Focused Information - Madoka Kumashiro and Constantine Sedikides
Close Positive Relationships as a Self-Bolstering Resource
PART THREE: LOVE AND SEX
Love - Harry Reis and Arthur Aron
What Is It, Why Does It Matter and How Does It Operate?
Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process - Cindy Hazan and Phillip Shaver
Love and Marriage in 11 Cultures - Robert Levine et al
Sex Differences in Human Mate Preferences - David Buss
Evolutionary Hypotheses Tested in 37 Cultures
Human Sexuality - Letitia Anne Peplau
How Do Men and Women Differ?
PART FOUR: RELATIONSHIP COGNITION
Relational Schemas and the Processing of Social Information - Mark Baldwin
Close Relationships as Including Other in Self - Arthur Aron et al
Bias and Accuracy in Close Relationships - Faby Gagné and John Lydon
An Integrative Review
The Relation between Current Impressions and Memories of Self and Dating Partners - Cathy McFarland and Michael Ross
Implicit Theories of Relationships - C. Raymond Knee, Heather Patrick and Cynthia Lonsbary
Orientations toward Evaluation and Cultivation
Eliciting Facial Affect, Motivation and Expectancies in Transference - Susan Andersen, Inga Reznik and Lenora Manzella
Significant-Other Representations in Social Relations
VOLUME FOUR: RELATIONSHIP MAINTENANCE PROCESSES
PART ONE: INTERDEPENDENCE PROCESSES
Trust in Close Relationships - J.G. Holmes and J.K. Rempel
Optimizing Assurance - Sandra Murray, John Holmes and Nancy Collins
The Risk Regulation System in Relationships
The Benefits of Positive Illusions - Sandra Murray, John Holmes and Dale Griffin
Idealization and the Construction of Satisfaction in Close Relationships
Accommodation Processes in Close Relationships - Caryl Rusbult et al
Theory and Preliminary Empirical Evidence
The Michelangelo Phenomenon - Caryl Rusbult, Eli Finkel and Madoka Kumashiro
PART TWO: SELF-REGULATION AND MOTIVATION
Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior - Abraham Tesser
Authenticity and Positivity Strivings in Marriage and Courtship - William Swann Jr., Chris De La Ronde and J. Gregory Hixon
To Know You Is to Love You - Lisa Neff and Benjamin Karney
The Implications of Global Adoration and Specific Accuracy for Marital Relationships
Thinking of You - Gráinne Fitzsimons and John Bargh
Non-Conscious Pursuit of Interpersonal Goals Associated with Relationship Partners
Good News! Capitalizing on Positive Events in an Interpersonal Context - Shelly Gable and Harry Reis
Creating Good Relationships - Amy Canevello and Jennifer Crocker
Responsiveness, Relationship Quality and Interpersonal Goals
VOLUME FIVE: RELATIONSHIP DETERIORATION
PART ONE: MARRIAGE AND MARITAL CONFLICT
Conflict in Marriage - Frank Fincham and Steven Beach
Implications for Working with Couples
The Longitudinal Course of Marital Quality and Stability - Benjamin Karney and Thomas Bradbury
A Review of Theory, Method and Research
What¿s Love Got to Do with It? Why Some Marriages Succeed and Others Fail - Ted Huston
Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions - John Gottman et al
Gender and Conflict Structure in Marital Interaction - Christopher Heavey, Christopher Layne and Andrew Christensen
A Replication and Extension
Disclosure and Secrecy in Marriage - Catrin Finkenauer and Hana Hazam
Do Both Contribute to Marital Satisfaction
Conflict in Close Relationships - Jeffry Simpson, W. Steven Rholes and Dede Phillips
An Attachment Perspective
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Close Relationships - Geraldine Downey et al
Rejection Sensitivity and Rejection by Romantic Partners
PART TWO: INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
Patriarchal Terrorism and Common Couple Violence - Michael Johnson
Two Forms of Violence against Women
Remaining in Abusive Relationships - Caryl Rusbult and John Martz
An Investment Model Analysis of Non-Voluntary Dependence
Self-Regulatory Failure and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration - Eli Finkel et al
PART THREE: DIVORCE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
A Social Psychological Perspective on Marital Dissolution - George Levinger
The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children - Paul Amato