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 text explores how memory, communication and social cognition function in the development of romantic relationships, and describes the stages of t...
The core dilemma in environmental advocacy may be illustrated by the question, "When we communicate about the world, should we stress what we know or what we feel?" The contributors to The Symbolic Earth argue that it is more important to decide how we should talk about what we know and feel. In their view, the environment is larely a product of how we talk about the world.
Because the environment is a social construction, the only hope we have of preserving it is to understand and alter the fundamental ways we discuss it. This collection first examines the ways in which discourse...
The core dilemma in environmental advocacy may be illustrated by the question, "When we communicate about the world, should we stress what we know ...
