This monograph studies women and men as friends from a developmental perspective. "Women and Men as Friends" examines cross-sex friendships from early childhood through old age, then summarizes the findings and offers recommendations on how friendship between males and females can be encouraged throughout the life span.
In each chapter three themes are documented and applied to the corresponding stage of life:
*Cross-sex friendships enrich an individual's social network in generic and unique ways.
*Social and structural barriers interfere with the formation of cross-sex...

This text explores how memory, communication and social cognition function in the development of romantic relationships, and describes the stages of their development. Topics discussed include the modern-day pursuit of intimacy and relational memory structures; schemata, scenes and scripts for romantic relationships; emotion and cognition about relationships; generating and maintaining relationships through imagined development of relationships; memory structures for developing relationships; memory structures for decaying relationships; and the semantics of break-ups.

This volume examines the role of time in relationships with a focus on the transpersonal dimension of intimacy and the temporal aspects of relationships. The chapters address issues such as unfolding in time; the forces of time; the process of intimacy; time, addiction and intimacy; in search of the temporal in personal relationship research; and examining temporality with some theories of personal relationships.