Overview
- Editors:
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Melvin J. Lerner
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Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
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Gerold Mikula
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Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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- Gerold Mikula, Melvin J. Lerner
Pages 1-9
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- Susan Sprecher, Pepper Schwartz
Pages 11-41
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- Serge Desmarais, Melvin J. Lerner
Pages 43-63
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- Margaret S. Clark, Kathleen Chrisman
Pages 65-88
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- Nico W. VanYperen, Bram P. Buunk
Pages 89-115
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- Mark Attridge, Ellen Berscheid
Pages 117-147
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- John G. Holmes, George Levinger
Pages 149-173
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- Barbara Reichle, Leo Montada
Pages 205-228
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- Faye Crosby, Rehana Farrell, Ann E. Cameron
Pages 259-279
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- Nicholas P. Emler, Sharon Hall
Pages 281-303
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- Louise H. Kidder, Nobuko Kosuge
Pages 305-323
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- Melvin J. Lerner, Gerold Mikula
Pages 325-339
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Back Matter
Pages 341-358
About this book
If the truth were told, this volume and its direct antecedents must rank among the most ambitious, if not simply pretentious, endeavors imag inable, at least in the social sciences. The titles of the volume and the chapters, promising to integrate the experiences of the sense of justice and the affectional bonding of people in close relations, seem straightforward and reasonable enough. What they fail to convey, however, is the simple bald fact that we in the human social sciences have no firm grasp on either of these two fundamental experiences-what we sometimes call "love" and "justice. " To begin with, even as "scientists" committed to under standing based upon systematic propositions linking publicly observable concepts, we have no clear consensus concerning the nature of the affec tional bonds linking people in close relationships-love, intimacy, caring, mutual responsiveness, or the sense of justice, fairness, deserving, and in our efforts to under entitlement. And we are continually handicapped stand these complex, moving experiences by the persistent tendency to reduce them to manifestations of, "nothing but," familiar psychological or even biological processes-"secondary rewards," "selfish genes. " So, why then this volume? Although there are many answers to the question, probably the most germane is that the basic issues are so im portant and intriguing that the recent past has seen rather dramatic paral lel growth in social scientists' interest in these two areas-justice and close relationships.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
Melvin J. Lerner
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Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Gerold Mikula
