Published Research Articles
We have posted abstracts for key research articles--and links to their sources where possible. Articles are divided into marriage and couples, gay and lesbian research, and parenting.
If you seek a comprehensive bibliography of Dr. John Gottman's research publications and books, click here to review his vitae. If you seek similar articles to any of these, you may wish to use electronic search tools such as PsychInfo (maintained by the American Psychological Association and available through most university libraries) or Current Contents.
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Facial Expressions During Marital Conflict |
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This article describes the validity of the Emotion Facial Affect Coding System in several measurement domains. |
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| 11/1/00 |
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Decade Review: Observing Marital Interaction. |
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This article reviews advances made in the decade of the 1990s in observing marital interaction. |
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| 8/1/00 |
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The Timing of Divorce: Predicting When a Couple Will Divorce Over a 14-Year Period. This paper investigates the predictability of divorce in a long-term prospective longitudinal study |
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Past research indicates that two periods are most critical for the survival of marriages: (a) the first seven years of marriage and (b) the period during which the first child reaches 14 years of age. |
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Theoretical and Mathematical Modeling of Marriage |
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Our work shows the marital relationship to be a complex system in which the movement of marital interaction to predictable points in that system represents the emergency of order. |
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| 1/1/99 |
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Rebound for Marital Conflict and Divorce Prediction |
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This study investigated the predictive ability of couples to rebound from marital conflict in a subsequent positive conversation. |
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| 1/1/99 |
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How Stable is Marital Interaction Over Time? |
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This is a report of the degree of stability in affective marital interaction over a four-year period. |
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| 1/1/98 |
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Psychology and the Study of Marital Processes |
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There are strong negative consequences to separation and divorce on the mental and physical health of both spouses, including increased risk for psychopathology, increased rates of automobile accidents, and increased incidence of physical illness, suicide, violence, homicide, significant immunosupression, and mortality from diseases. |
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| 1/1/97 |
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Battering and the Male Rejection of Influence from Women |
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The propensity of men to reject influence from women and individual differences in this tendency were examined in the present report as potentially related to two types of domestically violent men. |
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Children's Physiological Responses While Producing Facial Expressions of Emotions |
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Two studies were conducted: (a) children's ability to produce cross-culturally universal facial expressions of emotion, and (b) the degree of physiological patterning in distinguishing among emotions. |
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Long-Term Marriage: Age, Gender, and Satisfaction |
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In satisfied, long-term marriages, wives' and husbands' health was equivalent: in dissatisfied marriages, wives reported more mental and physical health problems than did their husbands. |
