Heart Rate Variability and Intimate Partner Violence
Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
SATURDAY
Effects of Inducing the Emotional Experience of Gratitude on Intimate Relationship Outcomes and Processes
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, Amber Belcher, and Elana Graber
The Influence of Emotional Arousal on Interpersonal Sensitivity: Modeling Within-Partner Covariation Across Time
Emily Weiss, Marc Schulz, and Robert Waldinger
Discussant: Harry Reis
Paper Session: Relationships in the Virtual World
“What’Chu Talkin’ About?” (and How Are You Talking About It?): Self-Disclosure Over Instant Messenger and Other New Communication Tools
Nancy Frye and Michele Dornisch
Hanging by a Text: Connectedness and Autonomy through Mobile Phone Text Messaging
Jonathan Pettigrew
Couples' Online Cognitions During Conflict: Links between What Partners Think and Their Relational Satisfaction
Anita Vangelisti, Ashley Middleton, and Diane Schroeder
The Effects of Social Support from a Significant Other in an Immersive Virtual Environment
Heidi Kane, Cade McCall, Nancy Collins, and Jim Blascovich
Paper Session: Sexuality
Sexual Communication of Married People: A Qualitative Study of Sexual Communication in Marital Maintenance
Unresponsiveness as a Form of Control: Attentional Disengagement, Emotional Countercontagion, and Empathic Inaccuracy in Maritally Aggressive Men
William Ickes and William Schweinle
Understanding and Validation as Key Components of Perceived Partner Responsiveness
Peter Caprariello and Harry Reis
Partner Responsiveness and the Michelangelo Phenomenon
Madoka Kumashiro, Caryl Rusbult, and Harry Reis
A Secure Base: Relationship Influences on Goal Striving and Exploration in Adulthood
Brooke Feeney
Roundtable: Integrating Relationship Research and Sexuality Research
Chair: Greg Morrow
Participants: Greg Morrow, Lisa Diamond, F. Scott Christopher, John Harvey, and Pamela Regan
Paper Session: Attachment Style
Attachment Style and Sexual Experience: Does Emotion Regulation Mediate Their Link?
Kostas Kafetsios and Lida Karagiannopoulous
SATURDAY
Attachment-Related Avoidance Predicts a Preference for Non-Diagnostic versus Diagnostic Social Situations
Lindsay Beck and Margaret Clark
Do Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance Undermine Accurate Partner Perception of Investment Model Variables?
Silvia Macher
An Attachment Perspective on Human-Pet Relationships: Conceptualization and Assessment of Individual Differences in Attachment Orientations towards Pets
Sigal Zilcha and Mario Mikulincer
On the Role of Proximity and Distance Goals in Adult Attachment
Reasons for the Perceived (Un)Importance of Disclosure about Relational History
Caroline Rankin and Stephanie Van Stee
The Relational Effects of Intrapersonal Communication: Thinking and Writing about Romantic Partners
Jessica Moore and Ashley Middleton
Self Appraisals of Physical Attractiveness as Modified by Positive and Negative Interactions with a Romantic Partner: An Extension of Interaction Appearance Theory
Kelly Albada
Perceived Nonverbal Relational Indicators of Disclosive, Emotionally Intimate Friendships
Jonathan Bowman
Paper Session: Friendships
Cultivating Fair-Weather Friendships: The Interpersonal Costs of Providing Social Support to Low Self-Esteem People
Justin Cavallo, Denise Marigold, and John Holmes
Friendship Contingent Self-Esteem as an Interpersonal Risk Factor for Depression
Janelle Cambron, Linda Acitelli, and Lynne Steinberg
Support Seeking amongst Friends: The Shy Person’s Struggle in Seeking Social Support
Analisa Arroyo and Susan Kline
Perceiving Support from Friends: Effects of Message Quality, Perceived Support Availability, and Problem Severity on Message
Brant Burleson, Graham Bodie, Jennifer McCullough, Amanda Holmstrom, Jennifer Rack, Jennifer Gill, and Lisa Hanasono