The limits of love: Predicting immediate versus sustained caring behaviors in close relationships

Kammrath, Lara K.; Peetz, Johanna

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2010.11.004

Cited by 18 publications

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“…Although experimental evidence for Path B within ongoing relationships appears scarce, findings from one notable study conducted by Kammrath and Peetz (2011, Study 3) provide suggestive evidence. These researchers showed that priming participants with their love for their partner (vs. the deadline to submit study questionnaires to the research team) increased the number of caring behaviors they reported enacting toward their partner (e.g., complimenting the partner and sending him or her “a loving text message” p. 414) over a 7-day period.…”

Section: Indirect Pathways From Seeker’s Positive Expressivity To Promentioning

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Can Expressing Positivity Elicit Support for Negative Events? A Process Model and Review

Walsh

Forest

2020

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Garnering support for distressing experiences is highly important, yet notoriously challenging. We examine whether expressing positive thoughts and feelings when seeking support for negative events can help people elicit support, and we present a theoretical process model that explains why it might do so. The model includes three support-eliciting pathways through which expressing positivity could increase support: by strengthening providers’ prorelational motives, increasing providers’ positive mood, and enhancing providers’ expected support effectiveness. It also includes a support-suppressing pathway through which expressing positivity could decrease support: by undermining providers’ appraisals of support seekers’ needs. After presenting the model and providing evidence for each indirect pathway, we review research regarding the direct pathway. We then consider various types of positivity, discuss possible moderators, and identify directions for future research. Our model highlights support seekers’ underemphasized role in shaping support receipt and provides a novel perspective on positive expressivity’s potential value in distress-related contexts.

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Section: Indirect Pathways From Seeker’s Positive Expressivity To Promentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Expressing Positivity Elicit Support for Negative Events? A Process Model and Review

Walsh

Forest

2020

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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“…Responsible and reliable individuals are more focused on keeping promises and repaying favors and avoid lying to significant others and stealing from friends. Indeed, research shows that aspects of conscientiousness (e.g., self-control, self-regulation) tend to predict who follows through on their commitments and promises to romantic partners (Kammrath & Peetz, 2011; Peetz & Kammrath, 2011). This tendency to “come through” or “follow through” on obligations to others also shows up in the tendency for conscientiousness to predict volunteer activity (Lodi-Smith & Roberts, 2007).…”

Section: The Model In Action: Application Across Important Life Domainsmentioning

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The Invest-and-Accrue Model of Conscientiousness

Hill

Jackson

2016

Review of General Psychology

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The current review synthesizes and builds from the extant literature to help explain how and why conscientiousness predicts a vast array of positive life outcomes. Toward this end, we present the Invest-and-Accrue model of conscientiousness, which describes conscientiousness as a disposition toward “investing” in ways that allow for future success. The value of this model is made apparent in its applicability across different life domains, as well as its potential for describing how individuals can change on conscientiousness throughout the life span. Moreover, the model can help explain why conscientiousness is relatively unique from other Big Five traits in its ability to predict positive life outcomes seemingly in any domain. In sum, this model should prove valuable for researchers across psychological disciplines, by providing an organizing framework from which to make connections across findings in personality, social, developmental, organizational, and educational psychology.

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“…Thus, self‐control represents a distal indicator of social relating competence, as it is a better predictor of low intense but consistent communal responses over time (e.g. keeping promises, forgiving others and inhibiting destructive reactions during stressful or upsetting situations) than of immediate kindness and understanding during everyday conversations (Fabes et al, ; Finkel & Campbell, ; Kammrath & Peetz, ; Karremans & van der Wal, ; Peetz & Kammrath, ). This would explain why self‐control seems to be more important for overall relationship satisfaction and peer popularity (Dyrenforth, Kashy, Donnellan, & Lucas, ; Heller, Watson, & Hies, ; Jensen‐Campbell & Malcolm, ; Lopes, Salovey, Coté, & Beers, ; Malouff, Thorsteinsson, Schutte, Bhullar, & Rooke, ; Schaffhuser, Allemand, & Martin, ) than for feelings during everyday social encounters with interactants across various acquaintance levels (e.g.…”

Section: Indicators Of Social Relating Competencementioning

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Individual Differences in Emotional Mimicry: Underlying Traits and Social Consequences

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Mimicry, the imitation of the nonverbal behaviour of others, serves to establish affiliation and to smoothen social interactions. The present research aimed to disentangle rapid facial reactions (RFRs) to affiliative emotions from RFRs to nonaffiliative emotions from a trait perspective. In line with the Mimicry in Social Context Model by Hess and Fischer, we expected that only the former are mimicry responses indicative of underlying social relating competence and predictive of social satisfaction, whereas the latter superficially resemble mimicry responses and are driven by social relating incompetence and have opposite effects on social satisfaction. Further, we assumed that social relating competence would moderate the relationship between stable individuals' tendencies to show (mal) adaptive RFRs and social satisfaction. To test these hypotheses, 108 participants first completed scales measuring social relating competence, then participated in a mimicry laboratory task and finally evaluated their naturally occurring social interactions for 10 days. Affiliative RFRs to sadness were related to proximal indices of social relating competence and predicted positive social interactions, whereas nonaffiliative RFRs to disgust were related to social relating incompetence and predicted negative social interactions. By contrast, neither affiliative RFRs to happiness nor nonaffiliative RFRs to anger were linked to proximal indices of social relating competence, and both RFRs were only (dys)functional for interaction quality in less social relating-competent individuals.

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The limits of love: Predicting immediate versus sustained caring behaviors in close relationships

Cited by 18 publications

References 23 publications

Can Expressing Positivity Elicit Support for Negative Events? A Process Model and Review

Can Expressing Positivity Elicit Support for Negative Events? A Process Model and Review

The Invest-and-Accrue Model of Conscientiousness

Individual Differences in Emotional Mimicry: Underlying Traits and Social Consequences

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