In order to stay current regarding the newest trends, and the latest research on romantic relationships, our research team does a LOT of reading. Each week we read two academic journal articles individually before our weekly meetings. This allows us to be more prepared to discuss our research projects together. We also read at least one professional blog post together each week. All of this reading and discussing has proven to be a very fruitful exercise. By knowing the literature we are able to recognize important studies that we should cite in our own research, and gain valuable knowledge that we can apply in the future. We plan to continue reading and carefully following the research literature for years to come. The following list represents all of the reading we have done since April 2017. You can click on the links below, to be taken directly to the publisher’s web page for each article.
October 2023
- Fife et al. (2023) – Couple Healing from Infidelity: A Grounded Theory Study
- Yao (2023) – It’s Not You It’s Me – Perceived Face Threat of Disengagement Language in Dating Relationships
September 2023
- Froidevaux & Campos (2023) – Intercultural Romantic Relationship Quality: What is the Role of Accommodation?
- Walsh et al. (2023) – Happily Ever After for Coupled and Single Adults: A Comparative Study Using Latent Profile Analysis
- Lopez & Smail (2023) – The Essential Element of Forgiveness in Couple and Family Relationships
- Marabel-Whitburn et al. (2023) – Balancing Friends and Romance Associations Between Men’s Investment in Peer Relationships and Romantic Relationship Quality
- Sorgente et al. (2023) – Yours, Mine, or Ours: Does Bank Account Status in Early Marriage Affect Financial Behavior and Financial Satisfaction?
- Leonhardt et al. (2023) – Gratitude and Sexual satisfaction: Benefits of Gratitude for Couples and Secure Attachment
- Monk et al. (2022) – Prior On–Off Relationship Instability and Distress in the Separation and Divorce Transition
- Terry (2023) – On Again, Off Again: Is This Really Healthy for Us?
August 2023
- Joel & MacDonald (2021) – We’re Not That Choosy: Emerging Evidence of a Progression Bias in Romantic Relationships
- Wang (2023) – More Scrolling, More Marital Problems
- Carroll (2023) – Soulmate Marriage vs. ‘The Only-One’ Marriage: Knowing the Difference Matters
July 2023
- Swets et al. (2023) – Preliminary Evidence that Relationship Nostalgia Might Offset Romantic Conflict to Aid Relationship Commitment
- Mishra & Allen (2023) – Rejection Sensitivity and Romantic Relationships: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Lopez (2023) – Mindfulness and Gratitude from Romantic Relationships through the Parenthood Years
- Conradi (2023) – Relative Contributions of Actor and Partner Forgiveness and Attachment to Couples
- Casjbok et al. (2023) – Six Red Flags in Relationships: From Being Dangerous to Gross and Being Apathetic to Unmotivated
- Terry & Keceli (2023) – The Impact of Loneliness on Our Relationships
- Peetz et al. (2023) – When Couples Fight about Money, What do they Fight About?
- Haydon & Salvatore (2023) – Relationship Stress, Arguments, and Sleep Quality: A Causal Process Analysis
- Saddler & Johnson (2023) – Is This a Dealbreaker? How to Detect and Respond to Red Flags in a Romantic Partner
- Duong et al. (2023) – Relationship Closeness as a Protective Factor Against the Sensitizing Effect of Adversity History
- Black (2023) – Responding to Threatening Online Alternatives: Perceiving the Partner’s Commitment through their Social Media Behaviors
- Carroll & Willoughby (2023) – The Myth of Sexual Experience
June 2023
- Collins et al. (2023) – Unwanted and Unfollowed: Defining Ghosting and the Role of Social Media
- Leckfor et al. (2023) – From Close to Ghost: Examining the Relationship Between the Need for Closure, Intentions to Ghost, and Reactions to Being Ghosted
- Stanley & Rhoades (2023) – Maybe I Do
- Huntington (2022) – Happy, Healthy, and Wedded: How the Transition to Marriage Affects Mental and Physical Health
- Beck et al. (2023) – Spouses’ Attachment Orientations Shape Physiological Responses to Relational Stress Over Time
- Seariac (2023) – Why are Millennials and Gen Z Waiting to Get Married?
- Morris et al. (2023) – Changing the Blame Game: Associations between Relationship Mindfulness, Loneliness, Negative Partner Attributions, and Subsequent Conflict
- Leavitt et al. (2023) – Mindfulness and Individual, Relational, and Parental Outcomes During the Transition to Parenthood
- ElHage & Wilcox (2023) – Navigating Tech With Your Teens: What Parents Can Do
- Thomas et al. (2023) – The Psychological Influence of Dating App Matches: The More Matches the Merrier
- Willoughby & Dover (2022) – Context Matters: Moderating Effects in the Associations between Pornography Use
May 2023
- Stanley & Rhoades (2023) – What’s the plan – Cohabitation, engagement, and divorce
- Rigby & Cobb (2023) – Positive illusions about dyadic perspective – Taking as a moderator of the association between attachment insecurity and marital satisfaction
- Terry (2023) – Learning how to navigate a relationship when your partner has ADHD
- Chen & Lu (2023) – Texting or face-to-face for support-seeking in romantic relationships: The role of affordances and attachment
- Bibby et al. (2023) – Accurately detecting happy facial expressions associates with perceptions of flirtatiousness
- Saddler (2023) – Overcoming challenges in interracial romantic relationships
April 2023
- Stokes (2023) – No hookups, no ‘talking’, and no breakups: a better way to date
- Driebe et al. (2023) – Stability and change of individual differences on ideal partner preferences over 13 years
- Dobson et al. (2023) – Are you tired of “us”? Accuracy and bias in couples’ perceptions of relational boredom
- Smail (2023) – The impact of substance abuse on couple and family relationships
March 2023
- Chang & Overall (2022) – Attachment anxiety, tracking accuracy, and biased memory of prior relationship evaluations
- Ouellet-Courtois et al. (2022) – A longitudinal study of we-talk as a predictor of marital satisfaction
- Charmaz (2014) – Constructing Grounded Theory
- Langenkamp (2022) – The influence of loneliness on perceived connectedness and trust beliefs
- Anderl et al. (2023) – Directly-measured smartphone screen time predicts well-being and feelings of social connectedness
February 2023
- Harris (2023) – Older adults on the dating market and the role of family caregiving responsibilities
- Monk et al. (2021) – The role of family-of-origin environment and discrepancy in conflict behavior on newlywed marital quality
- ElHage (2023) – Date your spouse and stay happily married?
- Davod & Tabri (2023) – The secrets that you keep – secrets and relationship quality
- Morin et al. (2023) – Dyadic association between new parents’ mindfulness and relationship satisfaction
January 2023
- Terry (2022) – How traumatic experiences can impact future relationships
- Jamison & Leo (2021) – Exploring parents’ ongoing role in romantic development: Insights from young adults
- Knies et al. (2020) – Romantic relationships in adults with ADHD: The effect of partner attachment style on relationship quality
- Dalrymple (2023) – I’m glad I got married young
- Keilholtz et al. (2023) – Relationship dynamics associated with emotional IPV perpetration and victimization: A meta‐analysis
- Johnson et al. (2023) – Does income moderate basic relationship processes?
- Harrington (2023) – Is there hope for marriage?
November 2022
- Olmstead (2020) – A decade review of sex and partnering in adolescence and young adulthood
- Barden et al. (2021) – Dyadic trust as a mediator in the association between posttraumatic stress symptoms and relationship distress in community couples
- Twenge et al. (2022) – Teens and tech: What difference does family structure make?
- DeRose (2022) – The mental health consequences of relationship churning
- Hank & Steinbach (2022) – Sibling estrangement in adulthood
- Carroll & Willoughby (2017) – The porn gap: Gender differences in pornography use in couple relationships
- Komisar (2022) – As more college students struggle with mental health issues, what can parents do?
- Busby et al. (2022) – Sexual passion in couple relationships: Emerging patterns from dyadic response surface analysis
- Wang (2022) – Shrinking American motherhood: 1-in-6 women in their 40s have never given birth
October 2022
- Collins (2022) – American family survey: is marriage dying? Poll ponders pressure points in finance and relationships
- Powell et al. (2021) – “Talking” as a romantic interaction: Is there a consensus?
- Vollmann (2019) – Adult attachment and relationship satisfaction: The mediating role of gratitude toward the partner
- Elhage (2022) – Do today’s teens see marriage and children in their future?
September 2022
- Weigel (2007) – Parental divorce and the types of commitment-related messages people gain from their families of origin
- Joel et al. (2020) – Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies
- Tuckfield (2022) – Is marriage a joy or a duty?
- Stanley (2022) – Me, you, and us: We-ness and couple identity
July 2022
- Beaulieu et al. (2022) – Why Do You Have Sex and Does It Make You Feel Better? Integrating Attachment Theory, Sexual Motives, and Sexual Well-Being in Long-Term Couples
- Horne et al. (2022) – Dialing up Desire and Dampening Disinterest: Regulating Sexual Desire in the Bedroom and Sexual and Relationship Well-Being
June 2022
- McFadden (2022) – Taming the Smartphone ‘Beast’ in Marriage
- Freedman et al. (2022) – Emotional Experiences of Ghosting
- LeFebvre et al (2020) – I Guess I’ll Never Know – Non-Initiators Account-Making After Being Ghosted
- Wilcox et al. (2022) – Where Have All the Good Men Gone?
- Stanley & Markman (2020) – Helping Couples in the Shadow of COVID-19
- Willoughby et al. (2019) – I’m Scared Because Divorce Sucks – Parental Divorce and the Marital Paradigms of Emerging Adults
- Stanley (2022) – ‘SkyFall’: How Fears About the Future Limit the Life We Live
April 2021
- Pancani et al. (2021) – Ghosting and Orbiting: An Analysis of Victims Experiences
- Renn (2021) – Date Local: Why You Might Want to Avoid the Online Dating Trap
- Riley (2021) – Anonymous Reporting of Child Abuse Protects Child Well-Being
- Wood et al. (2021) “Don’t know where to go for help”: Safety and economic needs among violence survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Geher (2021) – 10 positive outcomes of the pandemic
March 2021
- Semprevivo (2020) – Dating and sexual violence victimization among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Questioning Youth: Considering the Importance of Gender and Sexual Orientation.
- Firestone (2017) – A guide to fantasy bond
- David & Roberts (2021) – Investigating the Impact of Partner Phubbing on Romantic Jealousy and Relationship Satisfaction – The Moderating Role of Attachment Anxiety
- Richtel (2021) – The U.S. Is Opening Up. For the Anxious, That Comes With a Cost.
- Becerra et al. (2021) – Experiences of violence and mental health outcomes among Asian American transgender adults in the United States
- Stoycheva (2021) – How to uproot unconscious bias and xenophobia
- Stanley (2020) – Protecting Your Relationship in the Shadow of Corona
February 2021
- Powell et al. (2021) – “Talking” as a Romantic Interaction: Is There Consensus?
- Brickel (2020) – 3 Concepts to Help Trauma Survivors Move Forward into Healthier Relationships
- Spencer et al. (2021). The relationship between approval of violence and intimate partner violence in college students.
- Stalking, Harassment Common for Young Victims of Dating Violence
- Drouin & McDaniel (2021) – Technology Use During Couples’ Bedtime Routines, Bedtime Satisfaction, and Associations with Individual and Relational Well-Being
- ElHage (2021) – Five Ideas for Strengthening a Pandemic-Stressed Marriage
January 2021
- Whiting et al. (2020) – Trauma, Social Media, and #WhyIDidntReport: An Analysis of Twitter Posts About Reluctance to Report Sexual Assault
- Allsop et al. (2021) – Applying the Developmental Model of Marital Competence to Sexual Satisfaction: Associations Between Conflict Resolution Quality, Forgiveness, Attachment, and Sexual Satisfaction
- Stanley (2021) – Is Cohabitation Still Linked to Greater Odds of Divorce?
- Coppola et al. (2021). “We’re just two people in a relationship”: A qualitative exploration of emotional bond and fairness experiences between transgender women and their cisgender partners.
December 2020
November 2020
- Gottlieb (2020) – Dear Therapist: My Boyfriend Is Sending Me Mixed Signals
- Baker & Halford (2020) – Assessment of couple relationships standards in same-sex attracted adults
- Ullman et al. (2020) – Reasons for and experiences of sexual assault nondisclosure in a diverse community sample
- Rusnak (2020) – How to navigate social media as a couple
- Ritchie et al. (2020) – Romantic alternative monitoring increases ahead of infidelity and break-up
- Hussain et al. (2020) – Avoiding Information about One’s Romantic Partner
October 2020
- Vaillancourt-Morel, M., Rosen, N.O., Willougby, B.J., Leonhardt, N.D., & Bergeron, S. (2020). Pornography use and romantic relationships: A dyadic daily diary study
- Monk, J. K., Kanter, J.B., Jamison, T.B. & Russell, L.T. (2020). Beyond cold feet: Experiences of ending engagements and canceling weddings
- Wilcox, W.B., Stone, L., & Wang, W. (2020). The Good and Bad News About Marriage in the Time of COVID
- Spencer, C.M., Keilholtz, B.M., & Stith, S.M. (2020). The Association between Attachment Styles and Physical Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Victimization: A Meta-Analysis
- Harden, J., McAllister, P., Spencer, C.M., & Stith, S.M. (2020). The Dark Side of the Rainbow: Queer Women’s Experience of Intimate Partner Violence
- Stone, L. (2020). Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Monk, J.K, Ogolsky, B.G., Rice, T.M., Dennison, R.P., & Ogan, M. (2020). The role of family-of-origin environment and discrepancy in conflict behavior on newlywed marital quality
- Maniotes, C.R., Ogolsky, B.G., & Hardesty, J.L. (2020). Destination marriage? The diagnostic role of rituals in dating relationships
- Twenge, J., Coyne, S.M., Carroll, J.S., & Wilcox, W.B. (2020). Teen Well-Being During Quarantine
- Wilcox, W.B. & Stone, L. (2020). Divorce is Down During COVID
- Crabtree, S.A. & Harris, S.M. (2019). The Lived Experience Of Ambiguous Marital Separation: A Phenomenological Study
- Timmermans, E. PhD. & Alexopoulous, C. PhD. (2020). Anxioiusly Searching for Love (Among Other Things): Attachment Orientation and Mobile Dating Application Users’ Motives and Outcomes
- Bedford, E. (2014). Why Aren’t We Writing?
- Emery et al. (2020) – Who are We Couple Identity Clarity and Romantic Relationship Commitment
- van Raalte et al. (2020) – Exploring the Associations Between Unwanted Affection, Stress, and Anxiety
September 2020
- Grande, D., Ph. D. (2020). 4 Motives Behind Love-Bombing
- Dugal, C., Bélanger, C., Brassard, A., & Godbout, N. (2020). A Dyadic Analysis of the Associations Between Cumulative Childhood Trauma and Psychological Intimate Partner Violence: The Mediating Roles of Negative Urgency and Communication Patterns.
- Fitzgerald, M., & Ledermann, T. (2020). Longitudinal Effects of Adolescent Abuse on Relationship Quality and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Mother–Adolescent Dyads.
- Willoughby, B. (2020). The Power of Positive Thinking in Marriage
- Pew Research (2020) – The Virtues and Downsides of Online Dating
- LeFebvre & Carmack (2019) – Catching Feelings: Exploring Commitment (Un)readiness in Emerging Adulthood
- Leavitt & Winward (2020) – Does Mindfulness Heighten Marital Connection?
- Knopp et al. (2020) – Defining the Relationship in Adolescent and Young Adult Romantic Relationships
- Harris (2020) – Committing Before Cohabiting: Pathways to Marriage Among Middle-Class Couples
- Whiting (2020) – What hinders reports of sexual assault and harassment on campus – and why new federal Title IX rules may be a step back
- Knapp et al. (2017) Conflict resolution styles as mediators of female child sexual abuse experience and heterosexual couple relationship satisfaction and stability in adulthood
- Gauthier et al. (2019) The risk of telling: a dyadic perspective on romantic partners’ responses to child sexual abuse disclosure and their associations with sexual and relationship satisfaction
- Wang (2020) – The Share of Never-Married Americans Has Reached a New High
August 2020
- Stanley (2020) – What a Groundbreaking Study Using 43 Data Sets Reveals About Relationship Satisfaction
- Tsur and Abu-Raiya (2020) – COVID-19 Related Fear & Stress Among Individuals Who Experienced Child Abuse: The Mediating Effect of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Washburn-Busk et al. (2020) – Navigating “Breakup Remorse”: Implications for Disrupting the On-Again/Off-Again Cycles in Young Adult Dating Relationships
July 2020
- Stanley & Markman (2020) – Helping Couples in the Shadow of COVID-19
- Willoughby et al. (2019) – I’m Scared Because Divorce Sucks – Parental Divorce and the Marital Paradigms of Emerging Adults
April 2019
- Thiesen (2019) – Dyad to triad: A longitudinal analysis of humor and pregnancy intention during the transition to parenthood
- Wagner (2019) – Marriage, Cohabitation, and Sexual Exclusivity: Unpacking the Effect of Marriage
- Ghaziri et al. (2019) – Is self-esteem a resource for the parental couple? A longitudinal study on the quality of the romantic and coparental relationships
- Bastaits & Pasteels (2019) – Is joint physical custody in the best interests of the child? Parent-child relationships and custodial arrangements
- Wilcox & Stone (2019) – The Happiness Recession
March 2019
- Haselschwerdt et al. (2018) – The Romantic Relationship Experiences of Young Adult Women Exposed to Domestic Violence.
- Mallory et al. (2019) – Couples’ Sexual Communication and Dimensions of Sexual Function: A Meta-Analysis
- Bohns & DeVincent (2018) – Rejecting Unwanted Romantic Advances Is More Difficult Than Suitors Realize
- Stanley (2017) – What Is It With Men and Commitment, Anyway?
- Collins (2019) –Why cohabiting relationships are more wobbly than marriage worldwide and what it means for kids.
February 2019
- Lefebvre et al. (2019) – Ghosting in Emerging Adults’ Romantic Relationships: The Digital Dissolution Disappearance Strategy
- Cameron et al. (2019) – Gendered dating messages have consequences for both intended and unintended audiences
- Clyde et al. (2019) − Revising Premarital Relationship Interventions for the Next Generation
- Coy et al. (2019) − A Dyadic Model of Investments: Partner Effects on Commitment
- Lappegård & Thomson (2019) — Intergenerational Transmission of Multipartner Fertility
- Stanley, Rhoades & Whitton (2010) — Commitment: Functions, Formation, and the Securing of Romantic Attachment
- Wang et al. (2018) – Personality similarity and marital quality among couples later in life
January 2019
- Huang et al. (2017) – It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Question-Asking Increases Liking
- Lee & O’Sullivan (2018) – Ain’t Misbehavin? Monogamy Maintenance Strategies in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships
- Walters et al. (2019) – Relationship Quality and Perceived Partner’s Body Appreciation is Related to Women’s Own Body Appreciation and Sexual Functioning
December 2018
- Kamp et al. (2018) – The Intergenerational Transmission of Partnering
- Delaney (2018) – Sexual Intimacy Challenges as Markers of Relational Turbulence in Couples with Depression
- Gutterman (2018) – Why You Should Stop Trying to Find Your Soulmate—And What to Do Instead
November 2018
- Strubel & Petrie (2017) – Love me Tinder: Body Image and Psychosocial Functioning Among Men and Women
- Rehman et al. (2018) – Understanding Barriers to Sexual Communication
- Mazzuca et al. (2018) – Emotion Regulation and Satisfaction in Long-Term Marital Relationships: The Role of Emotional Contagion
- McDaniel & Drouin (2015) – Sexting Among Married Couples: Who Is Doing It, and Are They More Satisfied
- Koontz et al. (2017) – Realistic Love: Contemporary College Women’s Negotiations of Princess Culture and the “Reality” of Romantic Relationships
- Joel et al. (2018) – How Interdependent are Stay/Leave Decisions? On Staying in the Relationship for the Sake of the Romantic Partner
- Lehman (2018) – ‘Sex Recession?’ Blame Marriage Stagnation
- Pincus-Roth (2018) – So you want to date someone who’s sarcastic? How original.
October 2018
- Martn et al. (2018) – Attachment Predicts Transgression Frequency and Reactions in Romantic Couples’ Daily Life
- Rosenfeld & Roesler (2018) – Cohabitation Experience and Cohabitation’s Association with Marital Dissolution
- Boisvert & Poulin et al. (2017) – Navigating in and out of Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood
- Kaufman-Parks et al. (2018) – Inducing Jealousy and Intimate Partner Violence Among Young Adults
- Chun (2018) – In Love and Relationships, Family of Origin Matters
- Thorson (2018) – Investigating the Relationships between Unfaithful Parent’s Apologies, Adult Children’s Third Part Forgiveness, and Communication of Forgiveness Following Parental Infidelity
- Butler et al. (2017) – Pornography Use and Loneliness: A Bidirectional Recursive Model and Pilot Investigation
- Schwyzer (2018) – The Wages of Infidelity
- Choi et al. (2016) – The Association Between Smartphone Dating Applications and College Students Sexual Encounters and Condom Use
- Sandberg et al. (2018) – Examining the Influence of Relational Aggression on Sexual Satisfaction with Attachment Behaviors as a Potential Mediator
- Rhoades (2018) – How Moving In Together Makes It Harder to Know If He’s the One
- Stanley et al. (2018) – Unequally into “Us”: Characteristics of Individuals in Asymmetrically Committed Relationships.
September 2018
- Chan (2017) – Who Uses Dating Apps Exploring the Relationships among Trust, Sensation-seeking, Smartphone Use, and the Intent to use Dating Apps Based on the Integrative Model
- Arocho & Purtell (2018) – Will I Stay Married? Exploring Predictors of Expectations to Divorce in Unmarried Young Adults
- Sibley (2018) – When Grandparents Divorce, Everyone Hurts
- Karen et al. (2018) – Meta-analytic Evidence that We-talk Predicts Relationship and Personal Functioning in Romantic Couples
- Lopes & Shackelford (2018) – Disengaged, Exhaustive, Benevolent: Three Distinct Strategies of Mate Retention
- Linge (2018) – How Tech Bros Ruined Dating for Young People
- Qian (2018) – Does Being Smart and Successful Lower Your Chances of Getting Married?
- Hadden et al. (2018) – Commitment Readiness and Relationship Formation
- Houdt & Poortman (2018) – Joint Lifestyles and the Risk of Union Dissolution: Differences Between Marriage and Cohabitation
- Sadick (2018) – The Loneliness Effect
August 2018
- Timmermans et al. (2018) – Why Are You Cheating on Tinder? Exploring Users’ Motives and (Dark) Personality Traits
- Carlson & Soller et al. (2018) – Sharing’s More Fun for Everyone? Gender Attitudes, Sexual Self-Efficacy, and Sexual Frequency
- Carroll (2018) – Fostering Marriage Readiness in a Culture of Marriage Preparation Paradoxes
- Sels et al. (2018) – The Impact of Emotions on Romantic Judgements: Sequential Effects in a Speed-Dating Study
- Horn et al. (2018) – Positive Humor in Couples as Interpersonal Regulation: A Dyadic Study in Everyday Life
- Nedelman (2018) – Online Dating Study: Are You Chasing People ‘Out of Your League’?
- Olmstead et al. (2018) – How Do College Experience and Gender Differentiate the Enactment of Hookup Scripts Among Emerging Adults?
- Solomon & Brisini (2018) – Relational Uncertainty and Interdependence Processes in Marriage: A Test of Relational Turbulence
- Khazan (2018) –‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
July 2018
- Beckmeyer & Cromwell (2018) – Romantic Relationship Status and Emerging Adult Well-Being
- Guzzo (2018) – A Research Note on the Stability of Coresidential Unions Formed Postconception
- Butler (2018) – Is Pornography Use Increasing Loneliness, Particularly for Young People?
- Sutherland (2018) – Shotgun Unions Fare Better Than Post-Birth Unions
- Luster et al. (2013) – Emerging Adult Sexual Attitude and Behaviors: Does Shyness Matter
- Muise et al. (2014) – “Creeping” or Just Information Seeking: Gender Differences in Partner Monitoring
- Whiting (2018) – Small Lies Often Lead to Big Lies in Relationships
- Whyte et al. (2018) – Do Men and Women Know What They Want: Sex Differences in Online Daters’ Educational Preferences
- Bradbury & Fincham (1990) – Attributions in Marriage: Review and Critique
- Sibley (2018) – Seeking and Finding Fairness in Couple and Family Relationships
June 2018
- James-Kangal et al. (2018) – Hooking Up and Emerging Adults’ Relationship Attitudes and Expectations
- Johnson et al. (2018) – The Development of Willingness to Sacrifice and Unmitigated Communion in Intimate Relationships
- Stanley & Rhoades (2018) – Cohabitation is Pervasive
- Kogan et al. (2018) – Romantic Relationships Among Emerging Adult African-American Men: A Latent Profile Analysis
- Lavner et al. (2016) – Does Couples’ Communication Predict Marital Satisfaction, or Does Marital Satisfaction Predict Communication
- Braunstein (2018) – Why Millennials Should Rethink Slow Love
- Tong & Walther (2010) – Just Say No Thanks – Romantic Rejection in Computer-Mediated Communication
- Dailey et al. (2009) – On-again/Off-again Relationships – How Are They Different from other Dating Relationships
- Gottman & Dollard (2018) – Five Myths About Marriage
- Kim et al. (2018) – The relationship implications of rejecting a partner for sex kindly versus having sex reluctantly
- Harasymchuk et al. – Responses to dissatisfaction in friendships and romantic relationships: An interpersonal script analysis.
- Singletary (2018) – #WhoPays: Who should foot the bill on the first date?
May 2018
- Kim et al. (2018) – The Relationship Implications of Rejecting a Partner for Sex Kindly Versus Having Sex Reluctantly
- Harasymchuk et al. (2018) – Responses to Dissatisfaction in Friendships and Romantic Relationships
- Stone (2018) – Male Sexlessness is Rising, But Not for the Reasons Incels Claim
- MacDonald et al. (2012) – Insecure attachment predicts ambivalent social threat and reward perceptions in romantic relationships
- Joel et al. (2017) – Nothing ventured, nothing gained: People anticipate more regret from missed romantic opportunities than from rejection
- El Hage (2018) – For Most Couples Who Stay The Course, Marriage Gets Better with Time: An Interview with Paul R. Amato
- ElHage (2018) – Please Don’t Hide Your Happy Marriage
- McDonnell (2018) – Encouraging Intentional Dating in a Hookup Culture
April 2018
- Amato & James (2018) – Changes in Spousal Relationships over the Marital Life Course
- Stanley et al. (2006) – Sacrifice as a Predictor of Marital Outcomes
- Rhoades et al. (2012) – The impact of the transition to cohabitation on relationship functioning: Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings
- Dailey et al. (2012) – Negotiating Breakups and Renewals in On-Again Off-Again Dating Relationships
- Schoebi et al. (2012) – Stability and Change in the First 10 years of Marriage
- Barbaro et al. (2018) – Romantic Attachment and Mate Retention Behavior: The Mediating Role of Perceived Risk of Partner Infidelity
- Stanley (2018) – The Effects of Marriage Begin Before Marriage
- Clyde & Hawkins (2018) – Effective Marriage Preparation for the Next Generation Is More Important Than Ever
- Amato et al. (2011) – Reconsidering the “Good Divorce”
- Rhoades et al. (2012) – Parents’ Marital Status, Conflict, and Role Modeling –Links with Adult Romantic Relationship Quality
- Stanley (2014) – Why We Really Give Engagement Rings
March 2018
- Konstam et al. (2018) – Commitment Among Unmarried Emerging Adults – Meaning, Expectations, and Formation
- Dailey et al. (2013) – Negotiating Breakups and Renewals: Types of On-Again/Off-Again Dating Relationships
- Kitchener (2018) – Marriage Proposals are Stupid
- Collins & Horn (2018) – “I’ll Call You…” Communication Frequency as a Regulator of Satisfaction and Commitment Across Committed and Casual Sexual Relationship Types
- Guzzo (2014) – Trends in Cohabitation Outcomes – Compositional Changes and Engagement Among Never-Married Young Adults
- Benson (2018) – Family Planning and Marriage
- Zill & Wilcox (2018) – 1-in-2: A New Estimate of the Share of Children Being Raised by Married Parents
- Sibley (2018) – Resilient Commitment: Overcoming the Intergenerational Effects of Parental Divorce
February 2018
- Amato & Patterson (2017) – The Intergenerational Transmission of Union Instability in Early Adulthood
- Arnett (2013) – The Evidence for Generation We and Against Generation Me
- Cho et al. (2018) – Cohabiting Parents’ Marriage Plans and Marriage Realization: Gender Differences, Couple Agreement, and Longitudinal Effects
- Dailey et al. (2017) – Fluctuation in On-Again/Off-Again Romantic Relationships: Foreboding or Functional?
- Stanley (2018) – “That Decision Wasn’t Made There”: A Super Bowl Insight on Commitment
- VerBruggen (2018) – Trends in Unmarried Childbearing Point to a Coming Apart
- Fox & Tokunaga (2015) – Romantic Partner Monitoring After Breakups: Dependence, Distress, and Post-Dissolution Online Surveillance via Social Networking Sites
- Barker (2014) – How to Be a Better Writer: 6 Tips from Harvard’s Steven Pinker
- Stanley (2018) – Planning a Wedding? Say Yes to the Guests and Spend Less on the Dress
- Dailey et al. (2013) – Charting Changes in Commitment: Trajectories of On-Again/Off-Again Relationships
- Padilla-Walker (2014) – “Because I’m Still the Parent, That’s Why!” Parental Legitimate Authority During Emerging Adulthood
- Wolfinger (2018) – Nine Decades of Promiscuity
January 2018
- Pinker (2018) – For Long-Term Happiness, the Wedded Win the Race
- Willoughby (2014) – Using Marital Attitudes in Late Adolescence to Predict Later Union Transactions
- Brown et al. (2017) – A Common-Fate Analysis of Pornography Acceptance, Use, and Sexual Satisfaction Among Heterosexual Married Couples
- Flanagan (2018) – Babe Turns a Movement Into a Racket
- Somarriba (2018) – The Aziz Ansari Case Exposes the Ugly Truth About Hookup Culture
- Willoughby and Hall (2014) – Enthusiasts, Delayers, and the Ambiguous Middle: Marital Paradigms Among Emerging Adults
- Freedman et al. (2018) – Ghosting and Destiny: Implicit Theories of Relationships Predict Beliefs About Ghosting
- Shrout & Weigel (2017) – “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Understanding the Noninvolved Partner’s Decision-Making Process Following Infidelity
- Spencer et al. (2017) – Assessing the Mediating Effect of Relationship Dynamics Between Perceptions of Problematic Media Use and Relationship Satisfaction
- Stanley (2014) – Marriage and Positive Child Outcomes: Commitment, Signaling, and Sequence
December 2017
- Manning et al. (2016) – Cohabitation and Intimate Partner Violence During Emerging Adulthood
- Rhoades et al. (2010) – Physical Aggression in Unmarried Relationships: The Roles of Commitment and Constraints
- DeRose (2017) – Cell Phones, Teen Depression, and Family Processes
November 2017
- Nielsen (2014) – Young Adult Daughters Relationships with Their Fathers Review of Recent Research
- Manning et al. (2010) – The Role of Romantic Partners, Family, and Peer Networks in Dating Couples’ View about Cohabitation
- Stanley (2017) – Is “Cuelessness” Exacerbating Anxiety and Depression in Teens?
- Arnett (2014) – The Emergence of Emerging Adulthood – A Personal History
- Manning & Cohen (2012) – Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution – An Examination of Recent Marriages
- Stanley (2015) – How to Lower Your Risk of Divorce: Advice to Singles
- Murray & Campbell (2015) – The Pleasures and Perils of Technology in Intimate Relationships
- Owen & Quirk (2014) – Toward a More Complete Understanding of Reactions to Hooking Up Among College Women
- Nordin (2017) – Seven Questions for Couples to Consider Before Moving in Together
- Stanley & Rhoades (2009) – Marriages at Risk: Relationship Formation and Opportunities for Relationship Education
- Velten et al. (2017) – Managing Disclosure through Social Media – How Snapchat is Shaking Boundaries of Privacy Perception
- Stieg (2017) – The Conversation Every Couple Should Have Before the Holidays
October 2017
- Weigel & Ballard-Reisch (2012) – Constructing Commitment in Intimate Relationships
- Pope (2013) – Intimate Relationship Commitment – An Integrated Conceptual Model
- Hax (2017) – They Seem to Be Moving in Together in Different Directions
- LeFebvre et al. (2014) – Navigating Romantic Relationships on Facebook
- Allison et al. (2017) – Marriage Delay, Time to Play – Marital Horizons and Hooking Up in College
- Willoughby (2017) – The Porn Gap: Gender Differences in Pornography Use in Couple Relationships
- Whiting (2017) – When Your Spouse is Addicted
- Deri & Zitek (2017) – Did You Reject Me for Someone Else? Rejections that Feel Comparatively Worse
- Joel et al. (2017) – Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: People Anticipate More Regret from Missed Romantic Opportunities than from Rejection
- Willoughby (2015) – The Role of Marital Beliefs as a Component of Positive Relationship Functioning
- Schade et al. (2013) – Using Technology to Connect in Romantic Relationships: Effects on Attachment, Relationship Satisfaction, and Stability in Emerging Adults
- Stanley & Rhoades (2016) – Practice May Not Make Perfect: Relationship Experience and Marital Success
September 2017
- Bravo et al. (2017) – Why Did It End? Breakup Reasons of Youth of Different Gender, Dating Stages, and Ages
- Charmaz (2014) – Chapter 7 – Memo-Writing
- Stanley (2017) – Cheating Then and Again
- Charmaz (2014) – Chapter 6 – Focused Coding and Beyond
- Collins (2017) – There Are More Single People Than Ever Before. But Do They Want to Get Married?
- Knopp et al. (2017) – Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater? Serial Infidelity Across Subsequent Relationships
- Stanley, Rhoades, & Whitton (2010) – Commitment: Functions, Formations, and the Securing of Romantic Attachment
- Twenge (2017) – Why Dating in Your 20s Is Terrible
- Brody, LeFebvre, & Blackburn (2017) – Post-Dissolution Surveillance on Social Networking Sites
- Charmaz (2014) – Chapter 5 – Constructivist Grounded Theory
- ElHage (2017) – When it Comes to Child Well-Being, Is One Parent the Same as Two?
- Ogolsky et al. (2017) – Relationship Maintenance: A Review of Research on Romantic Relationships
August 2017
- DeWall (2017) – Online Dating Sucks Because of the Algorithms Not the People
- Sibley et al. (2017) – “We’re Just Talking”: Investigating a New Trend in Emerging Adulthood Romantic Relationship Formation
- Vaterlaus et al. (2016) – “Snapchat is More Personal”: An Exploratory Study on Snapchat Behaviors and Young Adult Interpersonal Relationships
- Shrout & Weigel (2017) – Infidelity’s aftermath: Appraisals, mental health, and health-compromising behaviors following a partner’s infidelity
- Norona et al. (2017) – The Symbolic Nature of Trust in Heterosexual Adolescent Romantic Relationships
- ElHage (2017) – Most Teens Aren’t Having Sex, and They Deserve More Support for That Choice
- Knopp et al. (2014) – Fluctuations in Commitment Over Time and Relationship Outcomes
- LeFebvre (2017) – Phantom Lovers: Ghosting as a Relationship Dissolution Strategy in the Technological Age
- Twenge (2017) – Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
July 2017
- Family Stability Network (2017) – Love, Lust, and Loneliness: A Study into Men Aged 16-19 and Their Relationships
- Ogolsky et al. (2017) – Pathways of Commitment to Wed: The Development and Dissolution of Romantic Relationships
- Wolfinger (2017) – America’s Generation Gap in Extramarital Sex
- Vennum & Johnson (2017) – The Impact of Premarital Cycling on Early Marriage
- Olmstead et al. (2017) – First Semester College Students’ Definitions of and Expectations for Engaging in Hookups
- Stanley (2017) – Give Me a Sign: What Signals Commitment?
- Kelmer et al. (2013) – Relationship Quality, Commitment, and Stability in Long-Distance Relationships
- Owen et al. (2011) – The Revised Commitment Inventory: Psychometrics and Use with Unmarried Couples
- Miller (2017) – The Adult Children of Divorce Find Their Voice
- Owen et al. (2014) – Commitment Uncertainty: A Theoretical Overview
- Lapierre & Lewis (2016) – Should It Stay or Should It Go Now – Smartphone and Relational Health
- Gottman & Gottman (2016) – An Open Letter on Porn
- Dines & Walker (2017) – You’d Be Surprised to Hear What Porn Is Doing to Sex
June 2017
- Vennum et al. (2017) – Emerging Adult Relationship Transitions as Opportune Time for Tailored Interventions
- Waterman et al. (2017) – Long-Distance Dating Relationships, Relationship Dissolution, and College Adjustment
- Wade (2016) – Sex on Campus Isn’t What You Think: What 101 Student Journals Taught Me
- Willoughby et al. (2015) – Changes in Marital Beliefs Among Emerging Adults: Examining Martial Paradigms Over Time
- Ackerman et al. (2011) – Let’s Get Serious: Communicating Commitment in Romantic Relationships
- Talalas (2017) – Millennials Are Looking for Parental Guidance on Love
- Willoughby et al. (2015) – Marital Paradigms: A Conceptual Framework for Marital Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs
- Wang & Wilcox (2017) – Marriage, Parenthood, and Millennial Success (The Millennial Success Sequence)
- Stanley & Wolfinger (2017) – The Early Years of Marriage are the Peak Years of Divorce
- Clifford et al. (2017) – Testing the Impact of Sliding Versus Deciding in Cyclical and Noncyclical Relationships
- LeFebvre (2017) – Swiping Me Off My Feet: Explicating Relationship Initiation on Tinder
- Lapp (2017) – As Wedding Costs Rise, Perhaps It’s Time to Invest More in Marriage Prep
- Lapp (2017) – Wedding Co-ops: One Idea for Helping Young Couples Afford Modest Weddings
May 2017
- Gottman & Gottman (2017) – The Natural Principles of Love
- Shulman & Connolly (2013) – The Challenge of Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood: Reconceptualization of the Field
- Stanley (2017) – Leisure Time and Marital Happiness
- Stanley et al. (2016) – Asymmetrically Committed Relationships
- Norona et al. (2017) – I Learned Things That Make Me Happy, Things That Bring Me Down
- Quirk et al. (2015) – Breaking Bad – Commitment Uncertainty, Alternative Monitoring, and Relationship Termination in Young Adults
- Peterson (2017) – Wanting Monogamy as 1,946 Men Await My Swipe
- Claxton et al. (2013) – Casual Sexual Relationships and Experiences in Emerging Adulthood
- Knopp et al. (2017) – Within- and Between-Family Associations of Marital Functioning and Child Well-being
- Stanley (2016) – Waiting for the Train: Searching for a Mate in the Modern World
April 2017
- Lenhart et al. (2014) – Couples, the Internet, and Social Media
- Stanley et al. (2011) – Understanding Romantic Relationships Among Emerging Adults
- Willoughby et al. (2014) – Marriage Matters But How Much? Marital Centrality Among Young Adults
- Willoughby et al. (2012) – “When Are You Getting Married?” The Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes Regarding Marital Timing and Marital Importance
- Stanley (2017) – Reasons People Give for Divorce
- Willoughby (2012) – Sooner or Later – The Marital Horizons of Parents and their Emerging Adult Children
- Cui et al. (2011) – The Effect of Parental Divorce on Young Adults’ Romantic Relationship Dissolution
- Wilcox (2017) – Men and Marriage: Debunking the Ball and Chain Myth
