Moral Talk Across the Lifespan ― Creating Good Relationships

The nine essays in this volume consider the moral dimension of communication in close relationships across the lifespan, how relational partners use communication to improve their relationships, and how moral communication practices change as people move through the life course. Relationship researchers from the US explore key relationships and life events, such as parent/caregiver-child communication, the acceptance of parental messages about morality by emerging adults, grandparent-grandchild relationships, marriage, and coping with cancer, and moral messages and conversations related to revenge and poetic justice, revealing others' secrets, relational transgressions in dating relationships, and couples' communication. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Vince Waldron (PhD Ohio State University) is Professor of Communication at Arizona State University. He is the author of four books, including Communicating Emotion at Work (2012).
Dr. Douglas Kelley (PhD University of Arizona) is Professor of Communication at Arizona State University. He is the author/co-author of three books including Marital Communication (2012).