Amazon.com description: Product Description: As social psychologists become more aware of the ways in which relationships undernpin almost everything in the social sciences, the need for an introductory book for students and scholars has increased. The author addresses the essential use of relationship issues within applied areas such as policing, health care, and the corporate world. He also emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary studies and the integration of different frameworks and methods, by focusing less on static factors in relationships and more on the matter of process. Finally, he examines the need to contextualize relationship processes and take account of the daily issues of management by relational partners.