From leading authorities, this significantly revised and expanded handbook is a highly
regarded reference in a rapidly growing field. It thoroughly examines the conscious and …

Highlights•People resist the temptation of attractive relationship alternatives.•Resistance
strategies include avoidance, diverted attention and biased judgments.•Relationship …

Executive functions consist of three separable but correlated functions; inhibition, working
memory, and shifting. Here we used an extensive and validated battery of objective …

In the past 20 years, greater attention has been devoted to the study of self‐regulation in an
interpersonal context. This review summarize this work and presents findings on how self …

The present research explored whether self-control is associated with the perception of
meaning in life. A week-long daily diary study (Study 1) showed trait self-control (but not …

Prior research indicates that emotional suppression exacerbates distress and reduces
cognitive performance and self-control. We extend this prior work in the current studies by …

This chapter highlights the contextual nature of intimate relationships. The first two sections
review evidence that the implications of four key processes for relationship functioning …

Relationship researchers and evolutionary psychologists have been studying human mating
for decades, but research inspired by these two perspectives often yields fundamentally …

Do partners' levels of self-control and forgiveness change over the course of marriage?
Based on the idea that marriage may function as a training ground for these vital relationship …

Although romantic partners strive to achieve an optimal balance in fulfilling both personal
and relational concerns, they are inevitably challenged by how much time and effort they …