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View article: Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies
Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies Open
Given the powerful implications of relationship quality for health and well-being, a central mission of relationship science is explaining why some romantic relationships thrive more than others. This large-scale project used machine learn…
View article: Relationship closeness in the context of chronic pain: Daily benefits and challenges for partners.
Relationship closeness in the context of chronic pain: Daily benefits and challenges for partners. Open
These findings illustrate a complex interplay between closeness and personal well-being in couples managing chronic illness and suggest the need for interventions that target both the benefits and potential costs of closeness. (PsycInfo Da…
View article: Methods for Studying Everyday Experience in Its Natural Context
Methods for Studying Everyday Experience in Its Natural Context Open
In the past three decades, methods that go by the generic name of everyday-experience methods have matured from the status of promising innovations to standard, widely used tools. This term refers to a paradigm that examines social psychol…
View article: When Your Partner is Being Flirted With: The Impact of Unsolicited Attention on Perceived Partner Desirability and Mate Retention Efforts
When Your Partner is Being Flirted With: The Impact of Unsolicited Attention on Perceived Partner Desirability and Mate Retention Efforts Open
When searching for a partner, people often rely on social cues to determine partners' suitability, finding those who attract attention from others particularly appealing. While people continue to evaluate their partners beyond relationship…
View article: Emotional Awareness Is Correlated With Ambulatory Heart Rate Variability: A Replication and Extension
Emotional Awareness Is Correlated With Ambulatory Heart Rate Variability: A Replication and Extension Open
Objective In healthy volunteers, a positive association has previously been observed between emotional awareness (EA), the ability to identify and describe emotional experiences in oneself and others, and resting heart rate variability (HR…
View article: Perceived responsiveness in suicidal ideation: An experience sampling study in psychiatric patients
Perceived responsiveness in suicidal ideation: An experience sampling study in psychiatric patients Open
Introduction Perceived responsiveness, or the extent to which one feels understood, validated and cared for by close others, plays a crucial role in people's well‐being. Can this interpersonal process also protect people at risk? We assess…
View article: Peer interactions and health among youth with diabetes: An ecological momentary assessment.
Peer interactions and health among youth with diabetes: An ecological momentary assessment. Open
Results underscore differences in between- and WP links of social interactions to health. Individual differences in support were more influential than conflict, but conflictual interactions had more momentary effects than supportive intera…
View article: How (if at All) do Perceptions of Supervisor’s Listening Differ from General Relationship Quality?: Psychometric Analysis
How (if at All) do Perceptions of Supervisor’s Listening Differ from General Relationship Quality?: Psychometric Analysis Open
Employees who perceive their supervisors to listen well enjoy multiple benefits, including enhanced well-being. However, concerns regarding the construct validity of perceived-listening measures raise doubts about such conclusions. The per…
View article: Support and Conflict Among Youth With Type 1 Diabetes: A Focus on Friends
Support and Conflict Among Youth With Type 1 Diabetes: A Focus on Friends Open
Objective The goal of the study was to examine the relations of general and diabetes-specific friend support and conflict to psychological and diabetes health among youth with type 1 diabetes. We examined gender as a moderator of these rel…
View article: Half Empty <i>and</i> Half Full? Biased Perceptions of Compassionate Love and Effects of Dyadic Complementarity
Half Empty <i>and</i> Half Full? Biased Perceptions of Compassionate Love and Effects of Dyadic Complementarity Open
The prevailing theory on relationship judgments for interaction attributes suggests individuals tend to underestimate a romantic partner’s expressions of compassionate love and that such underestimation is beneficial for the relationship. …
View article: Feeling loved as a strong link in relationship interactions: Partners who feel loved may buffer destructive behavior by actors who feel unloved.
Feeling loved as a strong link in relationship interactions: Partners who feel loved may buffer destructive behavior by actors who feel unloved. Open
Feeling loved (loved, cared for, accepted, valued, understood) is inherently dyadic, yet most prior theoretical perspectives and investigations have focused on how actors feeling (un)loved shapes actors' outcomes. Adopting a dyadic perspec…
View article: Perceived responsiveness in suicidal ideation: an experience sampling study in psychiatric patients
Perceived responsiveness in suicidal ideation: an experience sampling study in psychiatric patients Open
Introduction: Perceived responsiveness, or the extent to which one feels understood, validated, and cared for by close others, plays a crucial role in people’s well-being. Can this specific interpersonal process also protect people at risk…
View article: Is my partner committed to me or tempted by others?: Perceptions of the partner's devaluation of alternatives
Is my partner committed to me or tempted by others?: Perceptions of the partner's devaluation of alternatives Open
Three experiments evaluated a novel motivated response to alternative threat for committed people, known as perceptions of the partner's devaluation of alternatives (PPD). By being led to perceive lower partner commitment (Study 1a and 1b)…
View article: Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does It Operate?
Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does It Operate? Open
Although chemistry is a well-known, sought-after interpersonal phenomenon, it has remained relatively unexplored in the psychological literature. The purpose of this article is to begin articulating a theoretically grounded and precise def…
View article: Reappraising stress arousal improves affective, neuroendocrine, and academic performance outcomes in community college classrooms.
Reappraising stress arousal improves affective, neuroendocrine, and academic performance outcomes in community college classrooms. Open
The field experiment presented here applied a stress regulation technique to optimize affective and neuroendocrine responses and improve academic and psychological outcomes in an evaluative academic context. Community college students (N =…
View article: Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence
Trait attributions and threat appraisals explain why an entity theory of personality predicts greater internalizing symptoms during adolescence Open
Adolescents who hold an entity theory of personality – the belief that people cannot change – are more likely to report internalizing symptoms during the socially stressful transition to high school. It has been puzzling, however, why a co…
View article: Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does It Operate?
Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does It Operate? Open
Although chemistry is a well-known, sought-after interpersonal phenomenon, it has remained relatively unexplored in the psychological literature. The purpose of this article is to begin articulating a theoretically grounded and precise def…
View article: Toward an optimized measure of perceived partner responsiveness: Development and validation of the perceived responsiveness and insensitivity scale.
Toward an optimized measure of perceived partner responsiveness: Development and validation of the perceived responsiveness and insensitivity scale. Open
Perceived partner responsiveness (PPR; Reis & Shaver, Handbook of personal relationships, 1988, Wiley)-the belief that one's partner will attend to core concerns-is a construct in basic relationship research that can help evaluate intimacy…
View article: Getting Fewer “Likes” Than Others on Social Media Elicits Emotional Distress Among Victimized Adolescents
Getting Fewer “Likes” Than Others on Social Media Elicits Emotional Distress Among Victimized Adolescents Open
Three studies examined the effects of receiving fewer signs of positive feedback than others on social media. In Study 1, adolescents ( N = 613, M age = 14.3 years) who were randomly assigned to receive few (vs. many) likes during a standa…
View article: The impact of mathematics anxiety on stress appraisals, neuroendocrine responses, and academic performance in a community college sample.
The impact of mathematics anxiety on stress appraisals, neuroendocrine responses, and academic performance in a community college sample. Open
Mathematics anxiety is a major impediment to achievement in mathematics and science academic domains. Although important steps have been made in understanding the psychological processes of mathematics anxiety, as well as developing promis…
View article: Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies
Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies Open
Significance What predicts how happy people are with their romantic relationships? Relationship science—an interdisciplinary field spanning psychology, sociology, economics, family studies, and communication—has identified hundreds of vari…
View article: The occurrence and correlates of emotional interdependence in romantic relationships.
The occurrence and correlates of emotional interdependence in romantic relationships. Open
Interdependence, including emotional interdependence, is widely considered to be a cornerstone of close relationships. Through frequent interactions, romantic partners are thought to continuously exchange, influence, and respond to one ano…