Simulated relationships offer insight into real ones

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The interesting thing is that all the participants were reacting to the same person the same scenario said psychology graduate student Amanda Vicary a co-author on the study with psychology professor R. Chris Fraley. And yet the pattern of their resp ...
"The interesting thing is that all the participants were reacting to the same person, the same scenario," said psychology graduate student Amanda Vicary, a co-author on the study with psychology professor R. Chris Fraley. "And yet the pattern of their responses was quite different." Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau

Is it me, or are you a less than ideal partner? For psychologists studying how people manage romantic relationships, that’s not an easy question to answer. What if one of the partners is deeply afraid of intimacy? Could she be acting in ways that undermine the relationship? Or is her partner contributing to the problem?


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