Throughout the life span, individuals engage in affectionate touch with close others. Touch
receipt promotes well-being in infancy, but the impacts of touch in adult close relationships …

Relationship science is a theory-rich discipline, but there have been no attempts to articulate
the broader themes or principles that cut across the theories themselves. We have sought to …

Many everyday conversations, whether between close partners or strangers interacting for
the first time, are about the world external to their relationship, such as music, food, or …

Transactive goal dynamics (TGD) theory conceptualizes 2 or more interdependent people
as 1 single self-regulating system. Six tenets describe the nature of goal interdependence …

Designed for advanced MBA and doctoral courses in Consumer Behavior and Customer
Satisfaction, this is the definitive text on the meaning, causes, and consequences of …

Using archived social media data, the language signatures of people going through
breakups were mapped. Text analyses were conducted on 1,027,541 posts from 6,803 …

Three studies evaluated the reliability and validity of the Investment Model Scale, an
instrument designed to measure four constructs, including commitment level and three …

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 …

It is a nearly universal truth that people need people; humans have adapted to life with other
humans, and the interactions and relationships that result are the most relevant adaptation …

This article provides the first systematic literature review specifically about consumer-brand
relationship types since the foundational paper on brand relationships was published in …