Handbook of Family Theories

Mark A. Fine receiveda PhD from the Ohio State University in Clinical Psychology and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was editor of Family Relations from 1993 to 1996 and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships from 1999 to 2004. He has published almost 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well asnine books. In 2000, he was selected as a fellow of the National Council on Family Relations. He is on the editorial boards ofnine peer-review journals in family studies, relationship science, and human development. Frank D. Fincham obtained a doctoral degree in Social Psychology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and then completed postdoctoral training in clinical psychology at Stony Brook University. He is currently Eminent Scholar and Director of the Family Institute at Florida State University. The author of more than 200 publications, his research has been widely recognized by numerous awards, including the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for sustained, substantial, and distinguished contributions to the field of personal relationships from the International Network on Personal Relationships and the President's Award for distinguished contributions to psychological knowledge from the British Psychological Society. A Fellow of five different professional societies, Frank has been listed among the top 25 psychologists in the world in terms of impact (defined as number of citations per paper).