Responsiveness is a key element of effective communication in most relationships. When
relational partners perceive each other as being responsive, the relationship tends to be …

Perceived partner responsiveness (PPR; Reis & Shaver, Handbook of personal
relationships, 1988, Wiley)—the belief that one's partner will attend to core concerns—is a …

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

Listening and perceived responsiveness evoke a sense of interpersonal connection that
benefits individuals and groups and is relevant to almost every field in Psychology …

Highlights•Diverse processes have been shown to contribute to relationship well-being.•
Responsiveness provides an integrated conceptual model that links these processes.• …

Scholars of supportive communication are primarily concerned with how variations in the
quality of enacted support affect individual and relational health and well-being. But who …

Although active, responsive listening is widely assumed to be essential for well-functioning
intimate relationships, the manner in which this important behavior might promote closeness …

This research seeks to examine, and provide a theoretical grounding for, those dimensions
that prospectively characterize the construct of relational listening. First, a rationale for …

Listening as Positive Communication At age 17, Byron Pitts was a first year college student a
midterm away from flunking out. One particularly memorable day began as his English …

Listening has powerful organizational consequences. However, studies of listening have
typically focused on individual level processes. Alternatively, we hypothesized that …