• DOI:10.1037/0003-066X.54.4.260
• Corpus ID: 17857452

The greening of relationship science.

@article{Berscheid1999TheGO,
  title={The greening of relationship science.},
  author={Ellen Berscheid},
  journal={The American psychologist},
  year={1999},
  volume={54 4},
  pages={
          260-6
        }
}

• E. Berscheid
• Published 1 April 1999
• Psychology
• The American psychologist

This article briefly outlines the salutary implications for psychology of the development of a science of interpersonal relationships, which has emerged as multidisciplinary in nature and international in scope. Discussed are the potentials of relationship science: to unite psychological scholars with other social, behavioral, and biological scientists; to help integrate many subdisciplines within psychology; to bridge the chasm between researcher and practitioner; to extend knowledge of human behavior to people's daily lives and natural surroundings; and to inform issues of national concern. The realization of these potentials, however, requires transcendence of psychologists' traditional individualistic orientation, as well as more research on the impact of affect on cognition and research on the impact of relationships' exterior environments on their interior dynamics.