Accounting for Relationships

Dr Rosalie Burnett is a semi-retired Research Associate, formerly Reader in Criminology, at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, which she joined in 1990 after gaining her doctorate at Oxford (DPhil in Social Psychology). Before then she was a Probation Officer. Her specialist research subjects during her career have included personal relationships; rehabilitation and desistance from crime; and miscarriages of justice.Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow and currently Professor of Psychology and Assistant Vice Chancellor at the University of Greater Manchester. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA and has been an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. Amongst other publications, he is the author of Thinking Psychologically and The Academic Quality Handbook. His current research interests include dispositional contempt, AI in psychotherapy and relationship personalities.David Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, and former Head of School, at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds doctorates from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and has taught at both. Having started his career in medical sciences, he mainly researches pathways into and out of dangerous situations including road traffic collisions, evacuations, fights, relationship breakdowns, and mental disorders. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Chartered Psychologist.

• Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors. Introduction Rosalie Burnett Section One – Interpersonal Understanding: Emotion, Construal and Reflection 1. Emotion, Decision and the Long-Term Course of Relationships David D. Clarke 2. Emotions and Understanding Persons Frances M. Berenson 3. Explorations of Self and Other in a Developing Relationship Sue Wilkinson 4. Remembering Relationship Development: Constructing a Context for Interactions Dorothy Miell 5. Reflection in Personal Relationships Rosalie Burnett Section Two – Accounting in Use: Functions, Action and Communication 6. Performed and Unperformable: A Guide to Accounts of Relationships Charles Antaki 7. The Nature and Motivations of Accounts for Failed Relationships Ann L. Weber, John H. Harvey and Melinda A. Stanley 8. Friendship Expectations John J. La Gaipa 9. Planning and Scheming: Strategies for Initiating Relationships Charles R. Berger 10. Interplay Between Relational Knowledge and Events Sally Planalp 11. Cognition and Communication in the Relationship Process Leslie A. Baxter Section Three – Constructing Relationships: Representation, Reality and Rhetoric 12. Adding Apples and Oranges: Investigators’ Implicit Theories About Personal Relationships Steve Duck 13. The Social Construction of an ‘Us’: Problems of Accountability and Narratology John Shotter 14. The Representation of Personal Relationships in Television Drama: Realism, Convention and Morality Sonia M. Livingstone 15. Narratives of Relationship Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen 16. From Self-Reports to Narrative Discourse: Reconstructing the Voice of Experience in Personal Relationship Research Patrick McGhee. Endpiece Rosalie Burnett. Postword: The Idea of the Account and Future Research Patrick McGhee. Name Index. Subject Index.