Journal of Personal Relationships

An international, interdisciplinary journal published by @WileyPsychology.

Editor: Sylvia Niehuis, PhD
Sponsor: @IARRofficial

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measure, along with scoring syntax, are freely available on the Open Science Framework.

International Association for Relationship Research

#PersonalRelationships #RomanticRelationships #Psychometrics #MeasurementValidation

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📌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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ranging from instrumental and individualistic to altruistic.

International Association for Relationship Research

#PersonalRelationships #OpioidUseDisorder #Friendship #CriminalJustice

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📌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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when motivation was higher. Greater motivation to seek support was also linked to relational growth.

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📌 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 — but more likely to do so

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Yet significant methodological heterogeneity among studies makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.
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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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Why do some people struggle to let go of an ex? A new study “We Were Meant to Be: Do Implicit Theories of Relationships and Perceived Partner Fit Help Explain Post-Relationship Contact and Tracking Behaviors Following a Breakup” (Thompson et al.) takes a deeper dive.

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...reported being most aroused when the interloper was a feminine woman. #PersonalRelationships #Infidelity @IARRofficial
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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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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. @IARRofficial #personalrelationships #AcademicTwitter

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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. Learn more in this publication by Ogolsky et al.

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...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. You can read the article here: https://t.co/LqPXr9xHdu @IARRofficial

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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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The best things listeners can offer are the chance to tell the story and attentive listening behaviors. #personalrelationships #siblinggrief #academia @IARRofficial Read it here: https://t.co/MgH37wtzcV

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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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#PersonalRelationships #gaslighting #romanticrelationships @IARRofficial

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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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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.