CITESCORE 2.3 SCOPUS an Open Access Journal by MDPI Social and Personal Relationships Guest Editor: Message from the Guest Editor Prof. Dr. Steve Duck Dear Colleagues, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, 151 Social Sciences will begin accepting manuscripts for a Becker Communication Studies special issue on "Social and Personal Relationships", which Building, Iowa City, Iowa 52242- 1498, USA will deal with all aspects of the development, conduct and dissolution of all kinds of relationships and interpersonal [email protected] interaction. Papers are invited on romantic relationships, marriage, friendship all across the life span, and everyday interpersonal interaction, whether the relationship is the Deadline for manuscript dependent or independent variable or the topic of submissions: qualitative study of everyday communication. All papers closed (30 November 2013) will be carefully reviewed by experts and successful papers will be published online in Social Science http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci with a starting date of November 2013. Professor Steve Duck Guest Editor mdpi.com/si/2666 SpeciaIslsue CITESCORE 2.3 SCOPUS an Open Access Journal by MDPI Editor-in-Chief Message from the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Prof. Nigel Parton Social Sciences is an international open access peer- School of Human and Health reviewed journal publishing the latest research across all Sciences, University of disciplines of the social sciences including anthropology, Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK criminology, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics, political science, psychology, social policy, social work, sociology and related areas. The journal is especially interested in interdisciplinary research, and aims to facilitate the interaction and communication between different social scientific disciplines. The journal welcomes conventional length articles as well as shorter Research Notes or short articles, as long as they meet the journal’s standards of quality and originality. Author Benefits Open Access:— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions. High visibility: indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), EconBiz, IDEAS, EconPapers, and many other databases. Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q1 (General Social Sciences) Contact Us Social Sciences Tel: +41 61 683 77 34 mdpi.com/journal/socsci MDPI, St. Alban-Anlage 66 Fax: +41 61 302 89 18 [email protected] 4052 Basel, Switzerland www.mdpi.com.