Love and attraction : an international conference /

Love and Attraction is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Love and Attraction. This book is organized into 12 parts encompassing 78 chapters that cover various aspects of the subjects, including friendship, intimacy, and sexuality. The introductory parts deal with th...

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Corporate Authors: International Conference on Love and Attraction Swansea, Wales, ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Cook, Mark, 1942- (Editor), Wilson, Glenn D. (Glenn Daniel) (Editor)
Format: Government Document Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1979.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • I. PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS. Karen K. Dion: Physical Attractiveness and Interpersonal Attraction
  • Leonard Saxe: The Ubiquity of Physical Appearance as a Determinant of Social Relationships
  • Sally Bell Beck: Women's Somatic Preferences
  • Ray Bull: The Psychological Significance of Facial Deformity
  • John T. Neisworth, Russell T. Jones and Robert M. Smith: Body-behavior Problems: a Conceptualization
  • Heinz Schuler and Walter Berger: The Impact of Physical Attractiveness on an Employment Decision
  • Ella Lasky: Physical Attractiveness and its Relationship to Self-esteem: Preliminary Findings
  • Gerald C Cupchik, Jonathan C. Younger and Daniel Klein: The Integration of Physical and Social Information in Social Perception
  • A. Daniel Yarmey: The Effects of Attractiveness, Feature Saliency and Liking on Memory for Faces
  • Norman Livson: The Physically Attractive Woman at Age 40: Precursors in Adolescent Personality and Adult Correlates from a Longitudinal Study. II. NON-VERBAL INTIMACY, ATTRACTION AND FRIENDSHIP. Frances Clegg: Mammalian Pheromones
  • Sense or Nonsense?
  • Douglas S. A. Shelley and Albert McKew: Pupillary Dilation as a Sexual Signal and its Links with Adolescence
  • Michael W. Mair: Rapport and Timeless Moments: a Micro-dissection
  • David Bakken: Regulation of Intimacy in Social Encounters: the Effects of Sex of Interactants and Information about Attitude Similarity
  • Charles R. Figley: Tactical Self-presentation and Interpersonal Attraction
  • Letitia Anne Peplau and Daniel Perlman: Blueprint for a Social Psychological Theory of Loneliness
  • Douglas T. Kenrick, Robert B. Cialdini and Darwyn E. Linder: Heterosexual Attraction and Attributional Processes in Fear-producing Situations
  • Barry McCarthy and Steve Duck: When "I Disagree" means "I Will Like You Longer": Attributions of Causality in Acquaintance
  • Antony J. Chapman, Jean R. Smith, Hugh C. Foot and Elizabeth Pritchard: Behavioural and Socrometric Indices of Friendship in Children
  • Hugh C. Foot, Jean R. Smith and Antony J. Chapman: Non-verbal Expressions of Intimacy in Children
  • Daniel Romer and Gershon Berkson: Affiliation and Attraction in Field Settings. III. MATE SELECTION. Bernard Ineichen: The Social Geography of Marriage
  • David K. B. Nias: Marital Choice: Matching or Complementation?
  • John Birtchnell: A Test of Toman's Theory of Mate Selection
  • Margaret Draughon: Mate Selection and the Lady Role
  • Raymond M. Lee: Interreligious Courtship in Northern Ireland
  • Kees de Hoog: Mate Selection in the Netherlands
  • Robert S. Davidson and Marcia M. Davidson: Mate Selection: A Transactional Analysis Model
  • Davor Jedlicka: Mate Selection in the Absence of Face-to-face Relations. IV. MARITAL RELATIONS. P. M. Bentler and Michael D. Newcomb: Longitudinal Study of Marital Success and Failure
  • Bo Lewin and Jan Trost: Unmarried Cohabitation in Sweden
  • Robert G. Bringle and Scott Evenbeck: The Study of Jealousy as a Dispositional Characteristic
  • Melvyn Bennett: The Emotional Responses of Husbands to Suicide Attempts by their Wives. V. ROMANTIC LOVE. David E. Orlinsky: Structural Features of the Romantic Love Relationship
  • Kenneth L. Dion and Karen K. Dion: Personality and Behavioural Correlates of Romantic Love
  • Terry Smith Hatkoff and Thomas E. Lasswell: Male- Female Similarities and Differences in Conceptualizing Love
  • Panos D. Bardis: The Kinetic-potential Theory of Love
  • Christine Oppong: Changing Family Structure and Conjugal Love: the Case of the Akan of Ghana
  • J. Allen Williams, Jr., Lynn K. White and Bruno J. Ekaidem: Romantic Love as a Basis for Marriage - G. Marion Kinget: The "Many-splendoured Thing" in Transition or "The Agony and the Ecstasy" Revisited
  • Panos D. Bardis: Homeric Love. VI. EXCHANGE THEORY APPLICATIONS TO LOVE AND ATTRACTION- A symposium convened by John K. Chadwick-Jones. Ted L. Huston and Rodney M. Cate: Social Exchange in Intimate Relationships
  • J. K. Chadwick-Jones: Exchange and Liking
  • Robert M. Milardo and Bernard I. Murstein: The Implications of Exchange Orientation on the Dyadic Functioning of Heterosexual Cohabitors
  • Uriel G. Foa and Jan A. M. Bosman: Differential Factors in Need for Love. VII. THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY: A symposium convened by Elaine Hatfield. William Griffitt: Sexual Stimulation and Sociosexual Behaviors
  • Donn Byrne: Determinants of Contraceptive Values and Practices
  • Elaine Hatfield, Jane Traupmann and G. William Walster: Equity and Extramarital Sex
  • Elaine Hatfield, G. W. Walster and Jane Traupmann: Equity and Premarital Sex. VIII. SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIETY. Hans J. Eysenck: Sex, Society and the Individual
  • Beverly Hotchner: Contemporary American Sex Shocks: Implications for Love, Commitment and Relationships
  • Dolores L. Shymko: The Sources of Sexual Information of a Sample of Canadian Adolescents
  • Charles W. Hobart: Changes in Courtship and Cohabitation in Canada, 1968-1977
  • Daniel Perlman, Wendy Josephson, Hamida A. Begum, Woon Tai Hwang and Timothy L. Thomas: Birth Order and Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
  • Christie Davies: The Social Origins of Some Sexual Taboos
  • Glenn D. Wilson and Kenneth W. M. Fulford: Sexual Behaviour, Personality and Hormonal Characteristics of Heterosexual, Homosexual and Bisexual Men
  • Chris Gosselin: Personality Attributes of the Average Rubber Fetishist
  • Marilyn Peddicord Whitley: Health-care Practitioners and the Seductive Hospitalized Person
  • Michael J. Apter and K. C. P. Smith: Sexual Behaviour and the Theory of Psychological Reversals
  • Tom Mazur and John Money: Micropenis: Use of a Prosthetic Penis in a 9-yearold Boy. IX. SEX THERAPY - A symposium convened by Patricia Gillan. Keith Stoll: The Effects of Drugs on Sexual Function
  • Susan McMullen: The Use of Film or Manual for Anorgasmic Women
  • Sandra R. Leiblum and Raymond C. Rosen: The Sexual-enhancement Week-end Workshop: Assets and Limitations
  • Gerard Sunnen: Meditative Treatment for Erectile Dysfunction
  • Patricia Gillan: Group Therapy for Increasing the Sexual Interest of Female Patients and their Partners
  • Keith Stoll: Saboteurs of Sex Therapy
  • Patricia Gillan : Ways of Coping with Sabotage. X. EROTICA AND AROUSAL. Patricia Gillan and Christopher Frith: Male-Female Differences in Responses to Erotica
  • Russell Veitch and William Griffi: Erotic Arousal in Males and Females as Perceived by their Respective Same- and Opposite-sex Peers
  • James Elias and Veronica Elias: Dimensions of Masculinity and Female Reactions to Male Nudity
  • Michael C. Moore, James K. Skipper and Cecil L. Willis: Rock and Roll: Arousal Music or a Reflection of Changing Mores. XI. INFANT AND CHILD SEXUALITY - A symposium convened by Floyd M. Martinson. Floyd M. Martinson : Infant and Child Sexuality: Capacity and Experience
  • Thore Langfeldt: Processes in Sexual Development
  • Fritz Bernard: Pedophilia: The Consequences for the Child
  • Larry L Constantine: The Sexual Rights of Children: Implications of a Radical Perspective. XII. PEDOPHILIA - A symposium convened by Kevin Howells. Michael Ingram: The Participating Victim: A Study of Sexual Offences Against Pre-pubertal Boys
  • Kevin Howells: Some Meanings of Children for Pedophiles
  • David A. Crawford and Judith V. Allen: A Social Skills Training Programme with Sex Offenders
  • Ken Plummer: Images of Pedophilia.