Satisfying romantic relationships offer numerous social and health benefits, making it critical
to understand the trajectory of relationship satisfaction. In recent years, research has begun …

A recent surge in research on automatic processes in close relationships has revealed new
insights into how people form and update relationship evaluations as well as the …

Do people realize the evaluative feelings that are spontaneously activated by their partner?
If so, do they use those evaluations when judging their romantic relationships? To answer …

Automatic partner attitudes can be conceptualized as associations stored in memory
between a partner and one's evaluation of that partner that are spontaneously activated …

Highlights•Integrates the dual-process tenets of the MODE model into theories of
relationships.•Argues automatic evaluations uniquely track and predict interpersonal …

Past research on close relationships has increasingly focused on the assessment of implicit
constructs to shed new light on relationship processes. However, virtually nothing is known …

The present research examined how actor and partner attachment insecurity relates to
biases in perceptions of partners' core relationship-relevant constructs. Across three dyadic …

The paper examines potential origins of automatic (ie, unconscious) attitudes toward one's
marital partner. It tests the hypothesis that early experiences in conflict-of-interest situations …

The current research investigated the role of spontaneous partner feelings (implicit partner
affect) in the dynamics of relationship satisfaction, commitment, and romantic dissolution …

Growing evidence suggests that the seeds of relationship decay can be detected via implicit
partner evaluations even when explicit evaluations fail to do so. However, little is known …