A hypothesized need to form and maintain strong, stable interpersonal relationships is
evaluated in light of the empirical literature. The need is for frequent, nonaversive …

In diary studies, people provide frequent reports on the events and experiences of their daily
lives. These reports capture the particulars of experience in a way that is not possible using …

A complete, practical guide to planning and executing an intensive longitudinal study, this
book provides the tools for understanding within-subject social, psychological, and …

When social scientists attempt to describe the psychology of a given stage of the life cycle,
such as adolescence, they are faced with some basic methodological choices which will …

In recent years, researchers in work and organizational psychology have increasingly
become interested in short-term processes and everyday experiences of working …

This article concerns how to estimate reliability (defined as the internal consistency of
responses to a scale) in designs that are commonly used in studies of within-person …

Although several psychological theories predict that members of stigmatized groups should
have low global self-esteem, empirical research typically does not support this prediction. It …

In 2 studies, the Inclusion of Other in the Self (IOS) Scale, a single-item, pictorial measure of
closeness, demonstrated alternate-form and test–retest reliability; convergent validity with …

Recently, there has been a resurgence of research on emotion, including the socialization of
emotion. In this article, a heuristic model of factors contributing to the socialization of emotion …

In this chapter, we propose a model of the intimacy process. The process begins when one
person expresses personally revealing feelings or information to another. It continues when …