This is the first volume that marks, expedites, and defines this exciting new research synthesis between the areas of 'self' and 'social relationships', serving both as a platform for authors to present their latest ideas on the topic and to encourage continued integration in this emerging field.

Self-Related Motives Influence Close Relationships. Risk Regulation in Relationships: Self-Esteem and the If-Then Contingencies of Interdependent Life. On the Role of Psychological Needs in Healthy Functioning: Integrating a Self-Determination Theory Perspective with Traditional Relationship Theories. Self-Verification in Relationships as an Adaptive Process. Narcissism and Interpersonal Self-Regulation. Functions of the Self in Interpersonal Relationships: What Does the Self Actually Do? Reciprocal Influences of Self and Other, I: Self-Perception and Self-Regulation. Self-Perception as Interpersonal Perception. Self-Regulation and Close Relationships. Evolutionary Perspectives. Immediate-Return Societies: What Can they Tell Us about the Self and Social Relationships in Our Society? Evolutionary Accounts of Individual Differences in Adult Attachment Orientations. Reciprocal Influences, II: Close Relationships and Changing the Self. How Close others Construct and Reconstruct Who we are and How we Feel about Ourselves. The Relational Self in Transference: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Consequences in Everyday Social Life. Changes in Working Models of the Self in Relationships: A Clinical Perspective. Time for Some New Tools: Toward the Application of Learning Approaches to the Study of Interpersonal Cognition

Joanne V. Wood, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Abraham Tesser, Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia.

John G. Holmes, University of Waterloo, Canada.