Adult development : cognitive aspects of thriving close relationships /
Sinnott, Jan D.
Adult development : cognitive aspects of thriving close relationships / Jan D. Sinnott. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, (c)2014. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
""Cover""; ""Adult Development""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Complex Thought and Adult Intimate Relationships""; ""The Development of Complex Thought in Adulthood: Some Theories and Mechanisms that Grow with Interpersonal Experience""; ""The Big Picture: “New Science� Operations and Logics as a Way of Understanding Postformal Thought Operations and Intimate Relationship Processes""; ""Complex Thought and Emotionally Experienced Close Relationships"" Social, Cultural, and Historical Factors Relate to Cognitive Aspects of Intimate RelationshipsCognition and Fundamental Complex Relationship Skills: Theory-Limited Nonclinical Literature Related to Cognitive Factors in Intimate Relationships -- Cognition and Fundamental Complex Relationship Skills: Some Preliminary Quantitative and Qualitative Research -- Cognitive Aspects of Close Relationships that Thrive: Practices for Dyads in Intimate Relationships -- Future Research that Includes Culture and History Effects -- Appendices -- References -- About the Author -- Index
"Relationships, especially close relationships, are among the most important aspects of life for most of us. Close relationships reach to the very heart of our happiness --but exactly what processes or skills, over the course of a lifetime, help us learn to relate to one another more and more deeply, and to grow past the differences and problems that might divide us? Adult Development applies the concept of complex postformal thought in order to explore how certain cognitive processes support individuals' close relationships such that those relationships grow stronger and richer over time. Complex postformal thought allows a person to deal with everyday logical contradictions by letting that person understand that "reality" and "meaning" are co-created. In this way, postformal thought enables adults to bridge two contradictory but logical positions and reach an adaptive synthesis of them through a higher-order logic. Taking this inquiry a step further, Sinnott examines the role played by postformal thought in intimate relationships -- "Adult Development applies the concept of complex postformal thought in order to explore how certain cognitive processes support individuals' close relationships such that those relationships grow stronger and richer over time"--
9780199892822
Interpersonal relations.
Adulthood--Psychological aspects.
Adulthood.
Cognition.
Adult
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Adult--psychology
Cognition
Electronic Books.
HM1106 / .A385 2014
Adult development : cognitive aspects of thriving close relationships / Jan D. Sinnott. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, (c)2014. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
""Cover""; ""Adult Development""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Complex Thought and Adult Intimate Relationships""; ""The Development of Complex Thought in Adulthood: Some Theories and Mechanisms that Grow with Interpersonal Experience""; ""The Big Picture: “New Science� Operations and Logics as a Way of Understanding Postformal Thought Operations and Intimate Relationship Processes""; ""Complex Thought and Emotionally Experienced Close Relationships"" Social, Cultural, and Historical Factors Relate to Cognitive Aspects of Intimate RelationshipsCognition and Fundamental Complex Relationship Skills: Theory-Limited Nonclinical Literature Related to Cognitive Factors in Intimate Relationships -- Cognition and Fundamental Complex Relationship Skills: Some Preliminary Quantitative and Qualitative Research -- Cognitive Aspects of Close Relationships that Thrive: Practices for Dyads in Intimate Relationships -- Future Research that Includes Culture and History Effects -- Appendices -- References -- About the Author -- Index
"Relationships, especially close relationships, are among the most important aspects of life for most of us. Close relationships reach to the very heart of our happiness --but exactly what processes or skills, over the course of a lifetime, help us learn to relate to one another more and more deeply, and to grow past the differences and problems that might divide us? Adult Development applies the concept of complex postformal thought in order to explore how certain cognitive processes support individuals' close relationships such that those relationships grow stronger and richer over time. Complex postformal thought allows a person to deal with everyday logical contradictions by letting that person understand that "reality" and "meaning" are co-created. In this way, postformal thought enables adults to bridge two contradictory but logical positions and reach an adaptive synthesis of them through a higher-order logic. Taking this inquiry a step further, Sinnott examines the role played by postformal thought in intimate relationships -- "Adult Development applies the concept of complex postformal thought in order to explore how certain cognitive processes support individuals' close relationships such that those relationships grow stronger and richer over time"--
9780199892822
Interpersonal relations.
Adulthood--Psychological aspects.
Adulthood.
Cognition.
Adult
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Adult--psychology
Cognition
Electronic Books.
HM1106 / .A385 2014