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This paper examines predictors of how people react when their partners change. People who feel confused about who they are tend to undermine their partner's changes, with downstream relationship quality implications.
Emery, L. F., Gardner, W. L., Finkel, E. J., & Carswell, K. L. (in press). “You’ve changed”: Low self-concept clarity predicts lack of support for partner change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
This paper reviews the I3 Model, a metatheoretical approach to predicting how likely a given behavior is to occur and the intensity of that behavior. This model provides an organizing approach to the existing literature on aggression.
Finkel, E. J., & Hall, A. N. (2017). The I3 Model: A metatheoretical framework for understanding aggression. Current Opinion in Psychology.
Eli Finkel and colleagues received the Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). The award recognizes the paper or chapter published within the past year that has been "judged to provide the most innovative theoretical contribution to social/personality psychology." They received the award for their paper on Transactive Goal Dynamics, a theory investigating how close relationships influence goal success.
Andrew Hall received a Graduate Travel Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). He presented a poster at the annual SPSP convention on the mechanisms underlying the link between lay theories of willpower and goal success.
The paper reviews the relationship science literature and distills 14 core principles, which address the questions: (a) What is a relationship? (b) How do relationships operate? (c) What tendencies do people bring to their relationships? (d) How does the context affect relationships?
Finkel, E. J., Simpson, J. A., & Eastwick, P. W. (2017). The psychology of close relationships: Fourteen core principles. Annual Review of Psychology, 68, 383-411.
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This paper examines the circumstances under which low relationship power can lead to aggression. Aggressive responses emerge only when situational power is low, and only for men.
Overall, N. C., Hammond, M. D., McNulty, J. K., & Finkel, E. J. (in press). Power shapes interpersonal behavior: Low relationship power predicts men's aggressive responses to low situational power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Eli Finkel and lab album Paul Eastwick's work on speed-dating was covered in this animated infographic:
Kathleen Carswell will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, affiliated with the Center for Family Enterprise, in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Congrats!
This paper leverages speed-dating procedures and a dating app experiment to examine the effects of an individuals’ postural expansiveness on others’ romantic attraction to him or her. Men and women with expansive postures are more desired.
Vacharkulksemsuk, V., Reit, E., Khambatta, P., Eastwick, P. W., Finkel, E. J., & Carney, D. R. (in press). Dominant, open nonverbal displays are attractive at zero acquaintance. Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences.
This award recognizes a scholar in relationship science who has received a PhD within the past 8 years.
This paper examines how power influences people's likelihood of pursuing their romantic partner's goals. People with low power in their relationships tended to pursue goals for their partner and to adopt their partner's goals as their own.
This paper examines how the needs that people look to their marriages to fulfill have changed over time and argues that these changes have affected people's satisfaction with their marriages. On average, people may be less satisfied with their marriages than in previous eras, but the best marriages today are more fulfilling than were those in earlier times.
Kathleen Carswell has received a graduate research grant for her dissertation research, which will examine passion in romantic relationships.
The award recognizes a faculty member who has raised awareness about issues that should be addressed related to diversity on campus.
Lydia Emery has received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which supports graduate students in STEM fields who are pursuing PhDs.