''Personal Relationships'' is a quarterly

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published by

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on behalf of the

International Association for Relationship Research The International Association for Relationship Research (abbreviated IARR) is an international, interdisciplinary learned society dedicated to promoting research on personal relationships. It was formed in 2004 from the merger of the Internationa ...

. It covers research on all aspects of personal relationships, using methods from

social psychology Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people or by social norms. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the r ...

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

communication studies Communication studies or communication science is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in differen ...

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

, family studies,

developmental psychology Developmental psychology is the science, scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult deve ...

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, and

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. It was established in 1994 by

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and the

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is Ashley K. Randall (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 1.900, ranking it 64th out of 95 journals in the category "Communication" and 48th out of 66 journals in the category "Social Psychology".

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1475-6811
International Association for Relationship Research
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