“…Rather than examine how individuals and their spouses judge relative contributions to activities in the relationship, a second and more prominent line of research investigates the causal attributions made for the occurrence of relationship events (Doherty, 1982;Fichten, 1984;Fincham, 1985b;Fincham, Beach, & Baucom, in press;Fincham, Beach, & Nelson, in press;Fincham & O'Leary, 1983;Holtzworth-Munroe & Jacobson, 1985;Jacobson, McDonald, Follette, & Berley, 1985;Kyle & Falbo, 1985;Madden & Janoff-Bulman, 1981;Shields & Hanneke, 1983; also see Fletcher, 1983asee Fletcher, , 1983bHarvey, Wells, & Alvarez, 1978;Newman & Langer, 1981;Orvis, 41solated studies relating marital satisfaction to other cognitive variables have also been reported. These include field dependence (e.g.…”