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