One of the fastest growing areas within psychology is the field of emotion regulation.
However, enthusiasm for this topic continues to outstrip conceptual clarity, and there …

When individuals experience empathy, they often seek to bolster others' well-being. But
what do empathizers want others to feel? Though psychologists have studied empathy and …

Although getting married is no longer a requirement for social acceptance, most people do
marry in their lifetimes, and couples across the socioeconomic spectrum wish their …

The authors examined associations between marital quality and both general life
satisfaction and experienced (momentary) well‐being among older husbands and wives, the …

Research in emotion regulation has largely focused on how people manage their own
emotions, but there is a growing recognition that the ways in which we regulate the emotions …

Research on mindfulness, defined as paying conscious and non-judgmental attention to
present-moment experiences, has increased rapidly in the past decade but has focused …

Do partners' levels of physiological arousal become linked in close relationships? The term
physiological linkage describes covariation between people in their moment-to-moment …

This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and
theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting …

Laughter is often considered to be the product of humour. However, laughter is a social
emotion, occurring most often in interactions, where it is associated with bonding …

Emotion regulation difficulties have been found to predict relationship satisfaction in adult
samples, yet little is known with regards to the processes explaining these associations in …