Understanding marriage developments in the study of couple interaction (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Thought and action : connecting attributions to behaviors in married couples' interactions / Valerie Manusov -- Self-evaluation motives in close relationships : a model of global enhancement and specific verification / Lisa A. Neff and Benjamin R. Karney -- Competition in romantic relationships : do partners build niches? / Steven R.H. Beach [and others] -- Cognition and communication during marital conflict : how alcohol affects subjective coding of interaction in aggressive and nonaggressive couples / Alan Sillars [and others] -- Observational "windows" to intimacy processes in marriage / Linda J. Roberts and Danielle R. Greenberg -- Bases for giving benefits in marriage : What is an ideal? What is realistic? What really happens / Margaret S. Clark, Steven Graham, and Nancy Grote -- Shared participation in self-expanding activities : positive effects on experienced marital quality / Arthur Aron [and others] --
- Coping with disappointment in marriage : when partners' standards are unmet / Anita L. Vangelisti and Alicia L. Alexander -- On empathic accuracy and husbands' abusiveness : the "overattribution bias" / William E. Schweinle and William Ickes -- The war of the roses : an interdependence analysis of betrayal and forgiveness / Caryl E. Rusbult [and others] -- Demand-withdraw communicaton during couple conflict : a review and analysis / Kathleen A. Eldridge and Andrew Christensen -- Approaches to the study of power in violent and nonviolent marriages, and in gay male and lesbian cohabiting relationships / John M. Gottman [and others] -- The communication of couples in violent and nonviolent relationships : temporal associations with own and partners' anxiety/arousal and behavior / Patricia Noller and Nigel D. Roberts -- Adult attachment, the transition to parenthood, and marital well-being / Jeffry A. Simpson [and others] --
- Allocation and performance of household tasks : a comparison of new parents and childless couples / Judith A. Feeney and Patricia Noller -- Care giving and its influence on marital interactions between older spouses / Helen E. Edwards and Patricia Noller -- Risk factors, risk processes, and the longitudinal course of newlywed marriage / Lisa B. Story, Alexia D. Rothman, and Thomas N. Bradbury -- Does working at a relationship work? Relationship self-regulation and relationship outcomes / W. Kim Halford [and others]
This book draws together a wide range of new developments in the study of marital interaction. The book should be of great interest both to those who study couple interaction, and to those who work with couples to help them resolve their differences, and improve their communication