The Anatomy of Relationships [antikvár]

Preface The systematic study of relationships has made rapid advances during recent years. Social psychologists have concentrated on friendship and love, sociologists on families and kinship, workers in social medicine on the effects on health, amongst others. We have made use of these and other lines of research to provide an account of the anatomy of all the main relationships. Our own research has been mainly into the rules and skills needed to manage relationships successfully. We are indebted to the ESRC for financing this research, and to a number of our collaborators and colleagues at Oxford, especially Adrian Furnham, Peter Collett, David Clarke, Jos Jaspars, Peter Bryant, Mansur Lalljee, Rosalie Burnett and Robert Mcllveen. We are also indebted to our overseas collaborators in the rules study - Ralph Exline (Delaware), Michael Bond (Hong Kong), Yuichi hzuka (Hiroshima) and Alberta Contarello (Padua). The volumes on Personal Relationships edited by Steve Duck and Robin Gilmour have been very helpful for certain chapters, as was the conference on the same subject organised by them in Madison in 1982. We are also grateful to Peter Button of MORI for making recent survey findings available, especially the one on Neighbours. Finally we are grateful to the staff of the Bodleian and the Radcliffe Science Library, and to Ann McKendry for her work on the 'word protester'. Michael Argyle Monika Henderson Department of Experimental Psychology Oxford June 1983