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Looks at the author's research into the measurement of people reading minds, including thoughts and feelings, women's intuition, the similar thoughts of twins, and ways people can improve their mind reading ability.

Winner of the 2012 International Association for Relationship Research Book Award

Can we predict how well -- or how poorly -- two strangers will get along? According to social psychologist William Ickes, the answer is yes. Drawing upon relevant research findings from his 30-year career, Ickes explains how initial interactions are shaped by gender, race, birth order, physical attractiveness, androgyny, the Big Five dimensions, shyness, and self-monitoring.

Ickes's work offers unprecedented insights on the links between personality and social behavior that have not...

Empathic inference, or "everyday mind reading," is a complex psychological process in which observation, memory, knowledge, and reasoning are combined to yield insights into the subjective experience of others. This comprehensive volume addresses the question of how accurate our "readings" of the thoughts and feelings of others actually are. Introducing two innovative methods for objectively measuring this key dimension of social intelligence, the book offers essential insights into how and why people sometimes succeed and sometimes fail in their attempts to understand each other.

The Social Psychology of Personal Relationships provides a concise and highly readable introduction to the major social psychological perspectives on the study of personal relationships. The contributors, all internationally recognized scholars in their respective fields, address the study of personal relationships from the following key social psychological perspectives:


* attachment theory
* evolutionary psychology
* interdependence relations
* interracial relationships
* self-expansion theory
* self-presentation theory
This...

Findings of interpersonal sensitivity research presented a big surprise to the researchers who were working in this area. This book examines this discovery and how it has completely changed the research agenda for those working in this field of study.