The Psychology of Friendship

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.

Auteur

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.

Contenu

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