In this volume, noted scholars Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson focus on the cross-cultural research concerning the passionate beginnings of relationships: how people meet, fall in love, make love, and fall out of love, usually only to risk it all over again. Through in-depth analysis and astute assessment, they compare the way cultures try to set rules for these incendiary matters. Two main questions addressed are: 'What seems to be biological and universal?' and 'What seems to be socially constructed and transient?' Taking a historical perspective, the authors ask where different societies, and the world itself, are headed?
- ISBN10 0761832327
- ISBN13 9780761832324
- Publish Date 29 August 2005 (first published 7 December 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English