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Adult development : cognitive aspects of thriving close relationships /

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"Relationships, especially close relationships, are among the most important aspects of life for most of us. Close relationships reach to the very heart of our happiness --but exactly what processes or skills, over the course of a lifetime, help us learn to relate to one another more and more d...

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Main Author: Sinnott, Jan D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
Subjects:
Interpersonal relations.
Adulthood > Psychological aspects.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
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  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Complex Thought and Adult Intimate Relationships
  • 2. The Development of Complex Thought in Adulthood: Some Theories and Mechanisms that Grow with Interpersonal Experience
  • 3. The Big Picture: "New Science" Operations and Logics as a Way of Understanding Postformal Thought Operations
  • 4. Complex Thought and Emotionally Experienced Close Relationships
  • 5. Social, Cultural, and Historical Factors Relate to Cognitive Aspects of Intimate Relationships
  • 6. Cognition and Fundamental Complex Relationship Skills: Theory
  • 7. Cognition and Fundamental Complex Relationship Skills: Some Preliminary Quantitative and Qualitative Research
  • 8. Cognitive Aspects of Close Relationships That Thrive: Practices for Dyads in Intimate Relationships
  • 9. Future Research That Includes Culture and History Effects
  • Appendices
  • References
  • About the Author
  • Index.