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Featured Blogger: Vagdevi Meunier, Psy.D.
Vagdevi Meunier, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas. Vagdevi has over 25 years of experience as a therapist, consultant, and...
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Valentine's Day: The Gottman Way
As we are all quite aware, Valentine’s Day has developed a negative (and controversial) reputation as an American holiday for its sentimentalism and commercialization. It is an especially sensitive...
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Announcement: The Research
We are excited to announce a brand-new series from The Gottman Relationship Blog! Over the next six weeks, The Research will chronicle the four decades of clinical research performed by Dr. Gottman...
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The Research: Behavior Exchange Theory and Marital Decision Making
Today we kick-off The Research series on The Gottman Relationship Blog with a study from 1976. Nearly 37 years ago, Dr. John Gottman, Cliff Notarius, Howard Markman, Steve Bank, and Bruce Yoppi...
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Apply The Research: Building Your Emotional Bank Account
Hollywood has dramatically distorted our notions of romance and confused us entirely about what makes passion burn. While watching Ryan Gosling pour his heart out in "The Notebook" may make your heart...
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The Research: Predicting Divorce from an Oral History Interview
In 1992, Dr. Gottman and two of his colleagues, Kim Buehlman and Lynn Katz, conducted a clinical research study which was to astonish the world of relationship psychology. Interviewing 52 married...
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The Research: Predicting Divorce from an Oral History Interview Part II
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we would like to give a warm shout out to all the readers who sent us positive feedback on Facebook about The Research series, and also recognize those who have...
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Weekend Homework Assignment: Your Own Oral History Interview
As we discussed on The Gottman Relationship Blog this week, an Oral History Interview can tell researchers a lot about the future success or failure of a relationship, based on the measurement of...
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The Research: Physiological and Affective Predictors of Change in...
From 1980 to 1983, Dr. Gottman and his close friend and colleague Dr. Robert Levenson worked together to study the physiological and affective predictors of change in relationship satisfaction....
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The Research: Physiological and Affective Predictors of Change in...
In relationships that are working well, the couple's interaction style is constructive, affirming, and enjoyable. In unhappy relationships, the interaction style may be destructive, defeating, and...
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Weekend Homework Assignment: Physiological Self-Soothing
Before we post your Weekend Homework Assignment, allow us to briefly recap this week on The Gottman Relationship Blog. On Monday, we introduced Drs. Gottman & Levenson’s findings from their three...
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The Research: Patterns of Marital Conflict Predict Children's Internalizing...
In 1993, seeking to address the deficiency of research on the subject at the time, Drs. John Gottman and Lynn Katz performed a longitudinal study which examined the effects of marital interaction...
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The Research: Patterns of Marital Conflict Predict Children's Internalizing...
In the research study we introduced in Monday's posting on The Gottman Relationship Blog, "Patterns of Marital Conflict Predict Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors" (1993), Drs....
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Weekend Homework Assignment: How Marital Conflict Affects Children
As we promised in Wednesday’s blog posting, today we will connect the dots, giving you ways to apply the research we’ve shared with you this week to your own life! First, allow us to recap the basic...
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Nominated for #1 Marriage Blog!
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we would like to break from our regularly scheduled The Research series to make an exciting announcement: The Gottman Relationship Blog has been nominated by...
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The Research: Predicting Divorce Among Newlyweds from the First Three Minutes...
(Editor's note: The Gottman Relationship Blog needs your vote! Vote now: http://marriage.about.com/b/2013/02/19/vote-for-best-marriage-blogwebsite.htm)Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we...
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Weekend Homework Assignment: Softening Startup
In Wednesday's posting on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we introduced Dr. Gottman's 1999 study, Predicting Divorce among Newlyweds from the First Three Minutes of a Marital Conflict Discussion. Today,...
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The Research: Linkages Between Parent-Child Interaction and Conversations of...
In 1994, Drs. Gottman, Kahen, and Katz of the University of Washington conducted a study which examined how parenting behavior relates to a child’s ability to successfully interact with their peers....
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The Research: Linkages Between Parent-Child Interaction and Conversations of...
As promised in Tuesday’s posting (in which we discussed this 1994 study by Drs. Gottman, Kahen, and Katz), today we will systematically take you through the researcher's findings about the roles of...
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The Research: The Still Face Experiment
Last week on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we discussed the relationship between parenting behavior (of both the mother and the father) and a child's ability to participate in high levels of...
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