Social psychologists have a longstanding interest in the mechanisms responsible for the
beneficial effects of positive social connections. This article reviews and integrates two …

Relationship maintenance encompasses a broad array of activities that partners may use to
preserve their romantic partnerships. For this article, we systematically review the vast …

External stressors can erode relationship quality, though little is known about what can
mitigate these effects. We examined whether COVID-related stressors were associated with …

The transactional and disposable nature of liquid consumption has placed trust as the
lifeblood of sharing economy service innovation, enabling billions of strangers across the …

We propose a novel theoretical and empirical approach to studying group-level social
functions of emotions and use it to make new predictions about social consequences of …

The most universally experienced sexual response is sexual desire. Though research on
this topic has increased in recent years, low and high desire are still problematized in …

The experience of emotional intimacy is assumed to play a particularly large role in
maintaining sexual desire and partnered sexual activity in romantic relationships of longer …

Highlights•The sexual system operates as an attachment-facilitating device.•Attachment
processes link sexuality with relationship quality.•Sexual desire functions as a visceral …

The sexual behavioral system evolved to motivate reproductive acts by arousing sexual
desire. Building on the idea that this system has also been “exploited” by evolutionary …

Sexual and relationship satisfaction tend to be closely linked in the context of romantic
relationships. Understanding how sexual processes influence relationships and how …