Attribution, Communication Behavior, and Close Relationships

ISBN-13: 9780521770897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 408 str.

Opis

People often try to figure out why they acted the way they did or why others close to them acted in a certain way. The thoughts we have about why things happened are known as attributions. People have these thoughts about communication behavior, and they communicate the thoughts that they have. This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines whose work focuses on the interplay of attribution processes and communication behavior in close relationships.

Recenzje

"Notable not only for the quality of its contributors, but also for the breadth with which applications of attribution theory are covered and for the depth with which important questions about the nature of the theory are addressed." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Spis treści

List of contributors; Introduction Valerie Manusov; Part I. Attribution, Affect, and Well-Being in Relationships: 1. Affective influences on communication and attributions in relationships Joseph P. Forgas; 2. Communication and attribution: an exploration of the effect of music and mood on intimate couples' verbal and nonverbal conflict resolution behaviors James M. Honeycutt and Michael E. Eidenmuller; 3. Making sense of hurtful interactions in close relationships: when hurt feelings create distance Anita L. Vangelisti; 4. The association between accounts of relationship development events and relational and personal well-being Jeanne Flora and Chris Segrin; Commentary: affect, attribution, and communication: uniting interaction episodes and global relationship judgments Denise Haunani Solomon; Part II. Attributions and Communication in Dating and Marital Relationships: 5. Attributions, communication, and the development of a marital identity Catherine A. Surra and Denise S. Bartell; 6. Causal attributions of relationship quality Ellen Berscheid, Jason Lopes, Hilary Ammazzalorso, and Nora Langenfeld; 7. The content of attributions in couples' communication Valerie Manusov and Jody Koenig; 8. Handling pressures for change in marriage: making attributions for relational dialectics Patricia Noller, Judith A. Feeney and Anita Blakely-Smith; 9. The role of marital behavior in the longitudinal association between attribution and marital quality Matthew D. Johnson, Benjamin R. Karney, Ronald Rogge, and Thomas N. Bradbury; 10. Stepping into the stream of thought: cognition during marital conflict Alan Sillars, Linda J. Roberts, Tim Dun, and Kenneth Leonard; Commentary: thanks for the curry: advancing boldly into a new millennium of relationship attribution research Frank D. Fincham; Part III. New Directions and Contexts for Attributions and Communication: 11. Attributions and regulative communications by parents participating in a community-based child physical; abuse prevention program Steven R. Wilson and Ellen E. Whipple; 12. 'True lies': children's abuse history and power attributions as influences on deception detection Daphne Blunt Bugental, William Shennum, Mark Frank, and Paul Ekman; 13. HIV-infected persons' attributions for the disclosure of the seropositive diagnosis to significant others Valerian J. Dergla and Barbara A. Winstead; 14. Attributions about communications styles and strategies: prediciting dating couples' safe-sex discussions and relationship satisfaction Candida C. Peterson, Ashlea Troth, Cynthia Gallois, and Judith Feeney; 15. Why do people have affairs? Recent research and future directions about attributions for extramarital involvement David Atkins, Sona Dimidjian, and Neil Jacobson; 16. Attribution in social and parasocial relationships Rebecca B. Rubin and Alan M. Rubin; Commentary: extending attribution theory: contributions and cautions Sandra Metts; Part IV. A Discussion of Attribution Theory for Close Relationships: 17. The status of attribution theory qua theory in personal relationships Brian H. Spitzberg; 18. Are there superior options? Commentary on Spizberg's 'the status of attribution theory qua theory in personal relationships' John H. Harvey and Julia Ormazu; Index.