The Relationship Research Institute
The Relationship Research Institute was created to foster research on marriage, couples, parenting, and families. Dr. John Gottman created this research institute as a means of advancing an ambitious and independent research agenda and to assure that there would be a place dedicated to sponsoring research that is of the highest scientific rigor.
A legacy of creative and scientific rigor is the first pillar of the Research Institute. The second pillar is that the research be responsive and relevant to the immediate needs of families. The Relationship Research Institute fosters research that will be meaningful to the every day lives of men, women, children and their families. This free standing, independent institute was created to pursue this commitment to conducting research that has current applications. A third pillar of the Relationship Research Institute is the commitment to assuring that the Institute’s research results are available and accessible to the public and to other researchers in the scientific community. The Institute has a commitment to making research results available through papers submitted to peer reviewed professional journals, professional meetings, and through books and articles written about this work.
The final pillar of the Relationship Research Institute is that research be used to change policy and the institutions in society that reach out to families. For example, in the 'Bringing Baby Home' project, the goal is to change hospitals so that they will provide interventions sensitive to the needs of families undergoing the transition to parenthood.
In order to fulfill our mission, the Relationship Research Institute seeks funding from independent foundations that share our interest.
Current Research Projects
To read more about the Creating Healthy Relationships Research Project, please visit our Current Research Project page.
NEW! Recent Research Papers Released
- Psycho-educational Intervention with moderately and Severly Distressed Married Couples: One-Year Follow-Up Results 5-15-06
- Proximal Change Experiments with Couples: A Methodology for Empirically Building A Science of Effective Interventions for Changing Couples' Interaction 11-10-03
- Research Study by John Gottman, PhD: The Effectiveness of The Art and Science of Love, A Workshop for Couples 1999-2003
Questions? Please call the Relationship Research Institute at 206-832-0300.
