Attribution, Communication Behavior, and Close Relationships

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List of contributors
Introduction Valerie Manusov
Part I. Attribution, Affect, and Well-Being in Relationships:
1. Affective influences on communication and attributions in relationships Joseph P. Forgas
2. Communication and attribution: an exploration of the effect of music and mood on intimate couples' verbal and nonverbal conflict resolution behaviors James M. Honeycutt and Michael E. Eidenmuller
3. Making sense of hurtful interactions in close relationships: when hurt feelings create distance Anita L. Vangelisti
4. The association between accounts of relationship development events and relational and personal well-being Jeanne Flora and Chris Segrin
Commentary: affect, attribution, and communication: uniting interaction episodes and global relationship judgments Denise Haunani Solomon
Part II. Attributions and Communication in Dating and Marital Relationships:
5. Attributions, communication, and the development of a marital identity Catherine A. Surra and Denise S. Bartell
6. Causal attributions of relationship quality Ellen Berscheid, Jason Lopes, Hilary Ammazzalorso, and Nora Langenfeld
7. The content of attributions in couples' communication Valerie Manusov and Jody Koenig
8. Handling pressures for change in marriage: making attributions for relational dialectics Patricia Noller, Judith A. Feeney and Anita Blakely-Smith
9. The role of marital behavior in the longitudinal association between attribution and marital quality Matthew D. Johnson, Benjamin R. Karney, Ronald Rogge, and Thomas N. Bradbury
10. Stepping into the stream of thought: cognition during marital conflict Alan Sillars, Linda J. Roberts, Tim Dun, and Kenneth Leonard
Commentary: thanks for the curry: advancing boldly into a new millennium of relationship attribution research Frank D. Fincham
Part III. New Directions and Contexts for Attributions and Communication:
11. Attributions and regulative communications by parents participating in a community-based child physical
abuse prevention program Steven R. Wilson and Ellen E. Whipple
12. 'True lies': children's abuse history and power attributions as influences on deception detection Daphne Blunt Bugental, William Shennum, Mark Frank, and Paul Ekman
13. HIV-infected persons' attributions for the disclosure of the seropositive diagnosis to significant others Valerian J. Dergla and Barbara A. Winstead
14. Attributions about communications styles and strategies: prediciting dating couples' safe-sex discussions and relationship satisfaction Candida C. Peterson, Ashlea Troth, Cynthia Gallois, and Judith Feeney
15. Why do people have affairs? Recent research and future directions about attributions for extramarital involvement David Atkins, Sona Dimidjian, and Neil Jacobson
16. Attribution in social and parasocial relationships Rebecca B. Rubin and Alan M. Rubin
Commentary: extending attribution theory: contributions and cautions Sandra Metts
Part IV. A Discussion of Attribution Theory for Close Relationships:
17. The status of attribution theory qua theory in personal relationships Brian H. Spitzberg
18. Are there superior options? Commentary on Spizberg's 'the status of attribution theory qua theory in personal relationships' John H. Harvey and Julia Ormazu
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