Scripts and Communication for Relationships

James M. Honeycutt (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is an LSU Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and a winner of numerous research awards including the Rainmaker Research Award. He has shaped research in psychology and family studies. He is founder of the Matchbox Interaction Lab and is internationally recognized for his work in relationship scripts and imagined interactions.Pavica Sheldon (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is Associate Professor and Interim Department Chair of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In 2015 Sheldon won the Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award from Southern States Communication Association.

• Acknowledgments – The Pursuit of Intimacy and Relational Scripts – Emotion and Cognition About Relationships – Generating and Maintaining Relationships Through Imagined Interactions – Physiology and Relationships – Schemata, Scenes, and Scripts for Relationships – Development of Relationships: Stage Theories and Relational Script Theory – Scripts for Romantic Development and Decline – Semantics of Break-ups – Online Communication and Relational Scripts – Scripts for Office Romance: Approved or Forbidden? – Dysfunctional Scripts for Abusive Relationships – The Dark Side of Social Media Communication – Scripts for Constructive Communication – Author Index – Subject Index.