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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The study found that relational sacrifices are shaped by personal meanings, inherited family values, and broader social and cultural norms. Some sacrifices strengthen relationships, while others remain unseen and emotionally costly. 📚Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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We Both Sacrifice in This Marriage! Sacrifice Experiences of Turkish Married Couples

The aim of this study was to delve into the nuanced and subjective experiences of married couples at various family life cycles regarding relational sacrifices within the cultural landscape of Türkiy...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

❓What does sacrifice mean in marriage? 📌Check out this article by Akcabozan Kayabol, Aydogan, Toplu Demirtas, and Cag (2026), which draws on interviews with 16 Turkish married couples.

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lower life satisfaction, and reduced work engagement the next day — but strong family performance buffered these negative effects. #PersonalRelationships #Phubbing #FamilyLife #WellBeing #WorkEngagement 📚Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

❓Does your partner’s phone use ruin your day? Not necessarily. 📌Check out this article by Luo and Du (2026), which examined partner phubbing, family performance, and employee well-being in daily life. Partner phubbing was linked to feelings of deprivation,

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

were less likely to reject partners with manipulative (Machiavellian) and sadistic tendencies. An open question remains: Do trusting individuals consciously give people with darker traits a chance, or do they overlook those tendencies? 📚 Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

❓Who gives “dark” personalities a chance in dating? 📌Check out this article by Kesenheimer, Angermann, Raschel, and Greitemeyer (2026), which analyzed 1,429 speed dates. People higher in Light Triad traits — including trust in others —

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

predicts single young adults' loneliness and life satisfaction as they navigate the dating world. Romantic goals are a strong predictor of single people's well-being. #PersonalRelationships #Singlehood #Loneliness #WellBeing #Dating 📚Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🗣Do you know what you want in a relationship? 📌Check out this article by Kredl, Kubin, and Lydon (2025), which found that relationship clarity — the extent to which someone knows what they want in a relationship —

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

📌Check out this article by Mendez (2025), which challenges "spinster" stereotypes and highlights how single Filipino women aged 41–58 find fulfillment, agency, meaning, and belonging beyond marriage and traditional expectations. 📚Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

and their ability to communicate a family narrative. #PersonalRelationships #FamilyNarrative #Heirlooms #IntergenerationalRelationships 📚Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

📌Check out this brief report by Smith (2025), which explores the etymology of heirlooms and investigates the consequences of the term's isolation. It calls for more inclusive heirlooms and underscores the relationship between the interpersonal transmission of possessions

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

but ghosted individuals showed higher attachment and contact intentions toward the rejector. Thus, ghosting involves emotional pain without disengagement. #PersonalRelationships #Ghosting #Dating #Rejection #RomanticRelationships 📚Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

👻 Why is ghosting hurtful? 📌Check out this article by Szczesniak, Pierce, and Spielmann (2025), which examined emotional and behavioral responses to ghosting versus explicit rejection in an immersive dating scenario. Both ghosted and explicitly rejected individuals reported high negative emotion —

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The findings provide new perspectives on in-law relationships, gender roles, and kin substitution after divorce. International Association for Relationship Research #PersonalRelationships #Divorce #FamilyDynamics #Grandparents #Kinship 📚Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

📌Check out this article by de Bel, Potarca, and van Duijn (2025), which maps bilateral family ties across three generations, including children, mothers, fathers, and both maternal and paternal grandparents, in divorced and non-divorced families.

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We are excited to announce publication of a PR special issue entitled "Complex and Diverse Singlehood Experiences," edited by Katarzyna Adamczyk and Yuthika Girme. The issue contains a dozen articles (plus an introduction by the guest editors), many of which are...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

measure, along with scoring syntax, are freely available on the Open Science Framework. International Association for Relationship Research #PersonalRelationships #RomanticRelationships #Psychometrics #MeasurementValidation 📚Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📌Check out this article by Murphy et al. (2025), which validated a partner version of the Psychological Distance Scaling Task to assess partner-schema structures, defined as the degree of connectedness in beliefs about romantic partners. Both self- and partner-versions of this

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

— ranging from instrumental and individualistic to altruistic. International Association for Relationship Research #PersonalRelationships #OpioidUseDisorder #Friendship #CriminalJustice 📚 Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

📌Check out this article by Crowley et al. (2025), which explored how people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and criminal justice involvement make sense of friendship. Their findings highlight the complex, often fraught nature of these bonds on the margins

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

but more likely to do so when motivation was higher. Greater motivation to seek support was also linked to relational growth. 📚 Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📌 Check out this article by Tian (2025), which examined the predictors and outcomes of support seeking following spousal death. Bereaved individuals were less likely to seek support when perceived risks were higher and communication efficacy was lower —

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yet significant methodological heterogeneity among studies makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions. Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Check out this systematic review by Mauroy et al. (2025), which explored whether empathic accuracy (EA) changes across childhood and adolescence. Their findings suggest that age is not clearly associated with changes in EA.

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

To stay up-to-date on all new articles and news at Personal Relationships follow us across our social media platforms! #IARR #PersonalRelationships

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Check out this article from Brown et al. (2024). Two experiments tasked straight men to read about a girlfriend cheating on them with a man or woman described as masculine or feminine. Participants were most upset when learning about infidelity with a man but...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Check out this article by Robbins, Spahr, and Karan (2024) that revealed that people in same-sex couples hone their social networks to close, supportive members with whom they have one-on-one, satisfying interactions. #IARR #personalrelationships #Academicsky

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Despite widespread social/tech change, the overall pattern held, though some milestone timing and social network integration shifted (Ogolsky et al., 2025). Look in our Bio for the link to learn more! #academicsky #IARR #PersonalRelationships #RomanticRelationships

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

College students’ descriptions of romantic-relationship progression were analyzed in two studies a decade apart. Four consistent stages emerged: flirtationship, relationship potential, in-a-relationship, and commitment or bust.

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

...presentation of the model, a 1979 article by Kraemer and Jacklin. Also discussed are the topics of APIM patterns, whether the APIM is a dyadic model, and the automation of APIM analyses. #academicsky #IARR You can read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/pere...

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Reflections on the actor–partner interdependence model

The actor–partner interdependence model (APIM) has been widely successful and has become the default method for analyses of dyadic data in which both members of the pair have the same measurements. T...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Congratulations to Dr. David Kenny on having one of the top 10 most cited Personal Relationship articles in the past decade. The article Reflections on the actor—partner interdependence model reviews the history of the development of the APIM, focusing on the original...

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Check out this article by Brock and Yoshimura (2024) from our March issue. How are stories about a sibling’s death connected to well-being? “Finding a silver lining” with positivity is uncommon; instead, siblings often make sense of the loss through emphasis on facts.

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Klein et al. studied gaslighting holistically, asking survivors about the entire course of their relationships with the gaslighter, including recovery from it. The study remains, to the authors’ knowledge, the only empirical study on recovery from gaslighting.

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

It was one of the first large-scale investigations of gaslighting by psychologists since public interest in the term exploded in the 2010s. The study uniquely sampled survivors of gaslighting from diverse genders, sexualities, and ages around the world.

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Congrats to Willis Klein, Sherry Li, & Suzanne Wood for their article “A qualitative analysis of gaslighting in romantic relationships” being one of PR’s 12 most-cited articles during 2024 (of those published from 2022-2024).

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This study by Yu found that wives tend to be their husband’s substantial source of perceived psychological well-being than the reverse; however, the benefit of psychological well-being appears to be less for husbands of stay-at-home wives compared with husbands of employed wives.

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The authors reviewed literature from the past two decades (2002-2021) focusing on key definitional and conceptual issues in the study of relational maintenance (activities and cognitions that romantic partners engage in to sustain or enhance their relationships).

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Congrats to Brian Ogolsky and Laura Stafford for their article “A systematic review of relationship maintenance: Reflecting back and looking to the future” being one of PR’s 12 most-cited articles during 2024 (of those published from 2022-2024).

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Women mainly used appearance-enhancement tactics, whereas men commonly increased their income/social status and exaggerated their wealth & abilities. The authors called for research to test the strategies’ effectiveness (e.g., correlating them with mating success).

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Personal Relationships @perrelationships.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The study, with 7,000+ respondents, identified 10 strategies people reported using to become more desirable partners. The most common ones included enhancing physical appearance, showing abilities/talents, & highlighting similarity with a prospective mate.

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