Title: Behaving badly : aversive behaviors in interpersonal relationships /
Authors: Kowalski, Robin M.
Publisher: American Psychological Association,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Interpersonal conflict.; Social interaction.; Disorderly conduct.; Gossip; Invective.; Conflict, Psychological; Interpersonal Relations; Social Behavior
Abstract: Examines the dark side of relating, an inevitable part of interacting with others. How is it that we need others so much, indeed rely on them for our survival and well-being, yet often find it so difficult to maintain satisfying relationships? How can the loved one who raises your spirits by leaving flowers for you one day be the same individual who the next day acts like an insensitive jerk? Relationships provide us with meaning and psychological well-being but are the source of many, perhaps most, of life's greatest frustrations. -- Publisher description
Contents: Aversive interpersonal behaviors : on being annoying, thoughtless, and mean / Robin M. Kowalski -- Breaches of propriety / Rowland S. Miller -- You****! : swearing as an aversive and a relational activity / Alaina M. Winters and Steve Duck -- Aversive self-presentations / Roos Vonk -- The aversive interpersonal context of depression : emerging perspectives on depressotypic behavior / Jennifer Katz and Thomas E. Joiner, Jr. -- Hurt feelings : the neglected emotion / Mark R. Leary and Carrie A. Springer -- Permitted disrespect : teasing in interpersonal interactions / Robin M. Kowalski, Elsie Howerton, and Michelle McKenzie -- Rumor and gossip in interpersonal interaction and beyond : a social exchange perspective / Ralph L. Rosnow -- Interpersonal transgressions and betrayals / Warren H. Jones [and others] -- Aversive behavior and aggression in cultural perspective / James T. Tedeschi and Michael Harris Bond -- The aversive side of social interaction revisited / Robin M. Kowalski.