Relationships between people are an important part of human life. It is the ability to establish fruitful and pleasant contact with other representatives of society that determines the success of an individual in society.
Relationship psychology teaches to understand oneself, helps to choose the right vector of communication with people, as well as to correct one's own behavior and win others over to oneself. Why is this particular person causing dislike? How to communicate with your teenage child? How to please a business partner? How to build relationships with colleagues? A person has a lot of questions of this type, and you can get answers to them in this section of psychology.
Each person is a bundle of their own interests, goals in life, desires and principles. All this determines the choice of friends, spouse, work, hobbies. People who are similar in hobbies and aspirations are attracted to each other, it is easy for them to establish contact and enjoy it. And quite the opposite - those who have different principles, norms of behavior, intentions and interests will seem unpleasant to a person and will lead to conflict and strained relations.
According to the psychology of relationships, you need to learn to understand your “I”, your desires and needs, to be able to listen to yourself. When contacting others, you need to soberly look at the interests of other people, not refract them through the prism of your values. After all, each person, if it does not harm anyone, has the right to self-expression, his own system of views, desires and goals. When you realize this fact, it becomes much easier and more effective to build relationships with people.
Relationship psychology, as one of the categories of psychology, has its own areas of study, such as:
• interpersonal relationships;
• family relationships;
• business relationship;
• relationship between man and woman;
• public relations.
Today, in the era of the Internet, one can also distinguish the psychology of virtual communication. Social networks, dating sites, and a host of other web experiences are the focus of interaction for millions of people. However, it is difficult to understand human emotions and feelings through virtual communication. Non-verbal elements of contact and emotional coloring during communication carry a large amount of information about the interlocutor, help to understand the degree of sincerity of a person and his feelings, as they are. Often the virtual interlocutor does not live up to expectations in reality and communication is interrupted.
