Adult Development
Cognitive Aspects of Thriving Close Relationships
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 August 2014
- ISBN 9780199892815
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 163x236x22 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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 -- those between spouses, partners, parents and children, siblings, and close friends. Sinnott argues that postformal thought seems to develop later in life and is somewhat akin to the concept of wisdom. Based on 30 years of research, this book diverges from typical contributions to this field by discussing positive adult development in the context of close relationships. Rather than focusing on the emergence of deficits of adulthood and particularly aging, Sinnott instead explores the cognitive processes that are important in creating and sustaining close ongoing relationships.
Jan Sinnott's volume on the ways in which adult cognitive development and attributes of mature emotional relationships inform one another represents groundbreaking thought. Too often we have partitioned complex thinking and emotional relationships into separate compartments without examining the crossover. Sinnott's book takes us into this connected terrain and does so admirably.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Complex Thought and Adult Intimate Relationships
2. The Development of Complex Thought in Adulthood: Some Theories and Mechanisms that Grow with Interpersonal Experience
3. The Big Picture: "New Science" Operations and Logics as a Way of Understanding Postformal Thought Operations and Intimate Relationship Processes
4. Complex Thought and Emotionally Experienced Close Relationships
5. Social, Cultural, and Historical Factors Relate to Cognitive Aspects of Intimate Relationships
6. Cognition and Fundamental Complex Relationship Skills: Theory-Limited Nonclinical Literature Related to Cognitive Factors in Intimate Relationships
7. Cognition and Fundamental Complex Relationship Skills: Some Preliminary Quantitative and Qualitative Research
8. Cognitive Aspects of Close Relationships That Thrive: Practices for Dyads in Intimate Relationships
9. Future Research that Includes Culture and History Effects
Appendices
References
About the Author
Index
