PSY424H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Positive Tone, Jon D. Levenson, Identity Management
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Breakups are more likely to occur at certain times of the year, such as valentine"s day (morse & neuberg, 2004), when romantic relationships are more salient. People in new relationships are generally overly optimistic about how long their relationship will last (buehler, griffin, & ross, 1995) Most people believe that their own marriages will last a lifetime, even when they are aware of high divorce rates (e. g. , baker & emery, 1993) Who best predicts breakup? friends" and parents" survival estimates more accurate than own own perceptions of quality predicts better than friends" and parents". These are often lumped together, but they probably shouldn"t be have diff predictors. The decision to divorce is quite different because: it"s reversing a decision that"s already been made and it generally has greater ramifications (assets, possibly children, etc. ) Top five predictors of non-marital breakups (le et al.
