| Literature DB >> 8014831 |
W B Swann1, C De la Ronde, J G Hixon.
Abstract
We proposed that married persons would want their spouses to see them as they saw themselves but that dating persons would want their relationship partners to evaluate them favorably. A survey of 176 married and dating couples tested these predictions. Just as married persons were most intimate with spouses whose evaluations verified their self-views, dating persons were most intimate with partners who evaluated them favorably. For married people with negative self-views, then, intimacy increased as their spouses evaluated them more negatively. Marriage apparently precipitates a shift from a desire for positive evaluations to a desire for self-verifying evaluations.Entities:
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Year: 1994 PMID: 8014831 DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.66.5.857
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pers Soc Psychol ISSN: 0022-3514