TAILIEUCHUNG - Ebook Blackwell handbook of social psychology - Interpersonal processes: Part 2
(BQ) Part 2 book "Blackwell handbook of social psychology - Interpersonal processes" has contents: Social comparison and close relationships, interdependence in close relationships, emotional experience in close relationships,.and other contents. | Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes Edited by Garth J. O. Fletcher, Margaret S. Clark Copyright © 2001, 2003 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd 308 Berscheid and Ammazzalorso Chapter Twelve Emotional Experience in Close Relationships Ellen Berscheid and Hilary Ammazzalorso Close interpersonal relationships are the setting in which people most frequently experience intense emotions, both the positive emotions, such as joy and love, and the negative emotions, such as anger and fear. No other context in which people customarily live their lives appears to be as fertile a breeding ground for emotional experience as close relationships are. Most emotion theorists recognize that emotions are most frequently and intensely experienced in the context of close relationships (see Ekman & Davidson, 1994). Lazarus, for example, states that “most emotions involve two people who are experiencing either a transient or stable interpersonal relationship of significance” (1994, p. 209). It is not surprising, therefore, that many of the questions people ask about close relationships concern the emotions they experience in them. When young adults are asked to list the things they wish to understand about close relationships, for example, emotional phenomena invariably figure high on their lists (Berscheid, 1998). They often ask: “Can you both love and hate your partner?”; “Is it abnormal to feel jealous?”; “How can one prevent anger at outside sources from carrying over into anger at a relationship partner?”; “How can I get my partner to feel more passion?”; “Does separation increase passion and love?”; “Can the butterflies in the stomach and other feelings of love reoccur throughout the relationship, 10 or 20 years later?” Overview of Chapter This chapter addresses the strong connection between close relationships and emotional experience from the perspective of the Emotion-in-Relationships Model (ERM) (Berscheid, 1983, 1986, 1991; Berscheid, Gangestad, &
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