Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner's responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness

Abstract

Perceived responsiveness has been described as a "bedrock of intimacy." For responsive acts to be optimally beneficial, recipients must perceive them as responsive. Thus, understanding the factors that influence perceptions of responsiveness is critical for promoting highquality relationships. To date, little research has examined how relationship-specific variables affect how people interpret responsive acts. This paper examine how one such contextual factor-perceptions of a partner's typical level of responsiveness (responsiveness baseline)-shapes interpretations of responsive and unresponsive acts. Two studies employing complementary

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