In the late 20th and 21st centuries, the meteoric rise of countless social media platforms and mobile applications have illuminated the profound need friendship and connection have in all of our lives; and yet, very few scholarly volumes have focused on this unique and important bond during this new era of relating to one another.Exploring such topics as friendship and social media, friendship with current and past romantic partners,
co-workers, mentors, and even pets, editors Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer lead an expert group of global contributors as they each explore how friendship factors within our lives today.What
does it mean to be a friend? What roles do friendships play in our own development? How do we befriend those across the race, ethnicity, gender, and orientation spectrums? What happens when a friendship turns sour? What is the effect of friendship - good and bad - on our mental health? Providing a much needed update to the field of interpersonal relations, The Psychology of Friendship serves as a field guide for readers as they shed traditional definitions of friendship in favor of
contemporary contexts and connections.
In the late 20th and 21st centuries, the meteoric rise of countless social media platforms and mobile applications have illuminated the profound need friendship and connection have in all of our lives; and yet, very few scholarly volumes have focused on this unique and important bond during this new era of relating to one another.Exploring such topics as friendship and social media, friendship with current and past romantic partners,
co-workers, mentors, and even pets, editors Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer lead an expert group of global contributors as they each explore how friendship factors within our lives today.What
does it mean to be a friend? What roles do friendships play in our own development? How do we befriend those across the race, ethnicity, gender, and orientation spectrums? What happens when a friendship turns sour? What is the effect of friendship - good and bad - on our mental health? Providing a much needed update to the field of interpersonal relations, The Psychology of Friendship serves as a field guide for readers as they shed traditional definitions of friendship in favor of
contemporary contexts and connections.
Foreword: William Rawlins
Introduction: Mahzad Hojjat and Anne Moyer
Part I: Friendship across the Life Span
Chapter 1: Friendship in Childhood and Adolescence
Cynthia A. Erdley and Helen Day
Chapter 2: Friendships in Young and Middle Adulthood: Normative
Patterns and Personality Differences
Cornelia Wrzus, Julia Zimmermann, Marcus Mund, and Franz J.
Neyer
Chapter 3: Interactive Motifs and Processes in Old Age
Friendship
Rebecca G. Adams, Julia Hahmann, and Rosemary Blieszner
Part II: Who Are Our Friends?
Chapter 4: The Hackneyed Notions of Adult "Same-Sex" and
"Opposite-Sex" Friendships
William Monsour III
Chapter 5: Friendship Across Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual
Orientation
Suzanna M. Rose and Michelle M. Hospital
Chapter 6: Friendship and Social Media
Andrew M. Ledbetter
Chapter 7: Friendship and Romance: A Need-Fulfillment
Perspective
Laura E. VanderDrift, Chris R. Agnew, and Ezgi Besikci
Chapter 8: Friendship Among Co-workers
Rachel L. Morrison and Helena D. Cooper-Thomas
Chapter 9: Mentors as Friends
Laura Gail Lunsford
Chapter 10: Animals as Friends: Social Psychological Implications
of Human-pet Relationships
Allen R. McConnell, E. Paige Lloyd, and Tonya M. Buchanan
Part III: Friendship and Conflict
Chapter 11: The Aftermath: Friendship after Romantic Relationship
Termination
Eddie M. Clark, Priscilla Fernandez, Abigail L. Harris, Michelle
Hasan, and Katheryn B. Votaw
Chapter 12: Transgression, Forgiveness, and Revenge in
Friendship
Mahzad Hojjat, Susan D. Boon, Elizabeth Barlow Lozano
Chapter 13: Competition in Friendship
David R. Hibbard and Gail E. Walton
Part IV: Benefits and Maintenance of Friendships
Chapter 14: Friendship and Health
Julianne Holt-Lunstad
Chapter 15: Friendship and Mental Health Functioning
Alan R. King, Tiffany Russell, and Amy Veith
Chapter 16: Maintaining Long-lasting Friendships
Debra L. Oswald
Chapter 17: Conclusion: Friendship: An Echo, a Hurrah and Other
Reflections
Daniel Perlman
Mahzad Hojjat is a social psychologist and Associate Professor of
Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dr. Hojjat
has taught, researched, and written about close relationships for
the last 20 years. Her research focuses on a variety of topics
including resilience, satisfaction, betrayal, and forgiveness in
friendships and romantic relationships.
Anne Moyer has been a faculty member in the Department of
Psychology at Stony Brook University since 2001. Her research
interests include psychosocial issues surrounding cancer and cancer
risk, medical decision making, research synthesis and meta-analysis
and the psychology of research participation. She and co-editor,
Mahzad Hojjat, became friends and collaborators while in graduate
school together.
"Research on close relationship really has come into its own in the
last two decades. But among behavioral scientists, it sometimes
seems that love (and related constructs like jealousy and hate) get
all the attention. Yet, friendships are what sustain our psyches
and influence our physical wellbeing. Psychologists Mahzad Hojjat
and Anne Moyer have collected together the leading thinkers whose
research programs focus on friendship. Representing
perspectives
from biological to social-cultural, childhood to the elderly, these
investigators have produced some of the clearest writing in this
area, and the collection itself will be exceedingly valuable both
to
scholars and students."
-- Peter Salovey, President of the University and Chris Argyris
Professor of Psychology
Yale University
"This volume elegantly brings the research community up to date on
the extremely important topic of friendship, which is so central to
human experience. An initially small body of existing research has
recently begun to expand, with attention to widely diverse
friendship types and contexts . This book does a wonderful job of
pulling together this literature with a series of chapters with
scholarly reviews each focusing on one of these domains, and
consistently addressing what we mean by friendship and how it
operates and interacts with the rest of human experience. Anyone
doing research on friendship needs this book."
-- Arthur Aron, Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Stony
Brook University; Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology,
University of California, Berkeley
"Hojjat and Moyer creatively and thoroughly present a volume on
friendship that contributes to the field. With an eye on topics
that are less mainstream but of relevance and importance, the
authors create a book that adds to our larger understanding of
friendship across the developmental stages, and notably stimulate
our thinking about the many layers of friendship that exist in our
lives. Students, researchers, clinicians, and others will
appreciate the
diverse coverage in the book and the accessibility of the
information within its pages."
-- PsycCRITIQUES
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