{"id":689,"date":"2011-03-28T02:19:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T02:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=689"},"modified":"2011-03-28T02:19:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T02:19:18","slug":"william-r-cupach-visits-ucf-on-april-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/william-r-cupach-visits-ucf-on-april-12\/","title":{"rendered":"William Cupach visits in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scholar to Shed Light on the Dark Side of Relationships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William R. Cupach, Ph.D., an internationally recognized communication research scholar, will give a presentation on \u201cThe Dark Side of Interpersonal Attraction:  Obsessive Relational Intrusion and Stalking\u201d at the University of Central Florida. The presentation will begin at <strong>6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, in room 125 of the Harris Corp. Engineering Center.<\/strong> The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Nicholson School of Communication as part of the College of Sciences\u2019 Distinguished Speaker Series.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cupach&#8217;s research in areas of interpersonal communication is directed at understanding how individuals manage problematic, challenging, awkward, or aversive social and personal relations. He has investigated relational redefinition or termination, interpersonal conflict, embarrassing predicaments, relational transgressions, safe-sex negotiation, obsessive relational intrusions and stalking.<\/p>\n<p>Recently he has concentrated on the phenomena of stalking and obsessive relational intrusion (ORI), a term he introduced with co-author Brian H. Spitzberg, to capture a broader range of obsessive pursuit behaviors. ORI is the repeated and unwanted pursuit and invasion of one\u2019s sense of physical and symbolic privacy by another person who desires or presumes an intimate relationship. Persistent and threatening ORI constitutes stalking.<\/p>\n<p>His work on ORI has been reported in 21 journal articles and book chapters in the last twelve years, as well as numerous conference presentations.  A cumulative synthesis of his and his co-author\u2019s work on ORI was presented in \u201cThe Dark Side of Relationship Pursuit: From Attraction to Obsession and Stalking.&#8221; This book integrates knowledge from diverse disciplines, providing the most comprehensive treatment available on the subject of stalking and obsessive pursuit. It also presents unique observations based on his empirical meta-analyses of available data.<\/p>\n<p>Cupach has a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Communication Arts and Sciences.  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