J Gere
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 18134 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Gere |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Gere |
| FIRMA | GERE J |
| AFILIACIONES | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8152-7098 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Do people know how they impact their Partner’s goal pursuit? Accuracy, bias, and associations with relationship outcomes
We examined accuracy and bias in perceptions of one’s instrumentality to and obstruction of daily partner goal pursuit, and associations of mean-level bias with daily relationship outcomes. Daily reports ( N = 2,377) from cohabiting couples ( N = 106 couples), using multilevel path models, indicated that perceptions of own instrumentality to and obstruction of partner goals contain tracking accuracy and projection and partners were similar in ins…
Influence of Agreeableness on Responsiveness
OBJECTIVE: The trait agreeableness is associated with relationship outcomes and relationship maintenance behaviors, but the processes by which this influence occurs are not fully understood. We examine whether agreeableness is associated with an important relationship process, responsiveness, and whether agreeableness is associated with effort and social skills to be responsive to one's romantic partner. METHODS: We tested our predictions in two …
Daily perceptions of romantic partner autonomy support and undermining of health behavior
OBJECTIVE: This study examined accuracy and bias in daily perceptions of a romantic partner's autonomy support and undermining of health behaviors and the associations between misperceptions and both partners' daily experiences. DESIGN: = 2377) of their own and their partner's autonomy support and undermining, and their daily experiences. RESULTS: We found tracking accuracy and projection in perceptions of provider's autonomy support and undermin…
Congruence and goal sharing of health-related goals among newly dating individuals explaining goal importance and commitment
OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to determine whether perceived goal sharing (i.e., perceiving a partner as having the same health-related goal) and/or perceived goal congruence (i.e., being able to spend time together in health-related goal activities) with a romantic partner are associated with health-related goal commitment and importance. DESIGN AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: 80 participants with a health-related goal in a larger study on newly dating…
Perceptions of partner social control
Objective We examined accuracy and bias in people’s perceptions of their romantic partner’s daily social control attempts of daily health behaviours and how misperceptions of partner daily social control are related to both partners’ daily experiences.Design 106 cohabiting couples from the community reported on their own and their partner’s daily social control attempts (i.e., persuasion, pressure) and their daily experiences (i.e., positive and …
A meta-analytic review of accuracy and bias in romantic partner perceptions
People's perceptions of their romantic partners are somewhat accurate but also contain biases. In the current meta-analytic review, we sought to examine overall levels of accuracy and bias in romantic partner perceptions and moderators of accuracy and bias. We examined tracking accuracy (k = 157), projection (k = 157), indirect accuracy (k = 69), and mean-level bias (k = 153) in perceptions of a romantic partner across samples that estimated trac…
Consideration of Future Consequences Influences Involvement in Romantic Partners’ Health
This study examined the influence of people’s short-term (e.g., convenience) and long-term (e.g., maintain weight) motives toward their romantic partner’s health on their provision of health-related social control and autonomy support for their partner’s health behaviors, as well as their indifference toward their romantic partner’s health. Data from a sample of cohabiting couples (N = 212) were analyzed using multilevel path models. Results show…
Perceptions of daily sacrifice motives
Better together
Many people have goals to increase their physical activity levels through engaging in exercise, but have difficulty establishing and maintaining an exercise routine. Research shows that people are more successful at exercising if they do so together with their romantic partner. In this study, we examined how exercising with a romantic partner may influence the experience of exercise itself, as well as people's daily experiences. Specifically, we …
Relationship quality and accuracy of detecting a romantic partner's fear of being single
Perceptions of a romantic partner’s approach and avoidance motives
We examined tracking accuracy and bias (mean-level and projection) in people's perceptions of their romantic partner's relationship approach and avoidance motives, similarity in partners' motives, and positive and negative emotions as potential cues used to make judgments about a partner's daily motives and motives during shared activities. Using data from 2 studies, 1 using daily diaries (N = 2,158 daily reports), the other using reports of shar…
Broadening your horizon one day at a time
Self-expansion in intimate relationships (i.e., broadening one's perspective through engaging in novel, exciting activities with a partner) has been associated with relationship benefits. The goal of this study was to propose a motivational model of self-expansion to understand what prompts people to engage in self-expanding activities in their relationship on a daily basis. We hypothesized that when people report stronger daily approach relation…
Broadening your horizons
In the early stages of romantic relationships, sexual desire is often intense, but over time, as partners get to know each other, desire tends to decline. Low sexual desire has negative implications for relationship satisfaction and maintenance. Self-expansion theory suggests that engaging in novel activities with a long-term romantic partner can reignite feelings of passion from the early stages of a relationship. Across 3 studies using dyadic, …
Associations between social control, motivation, and exercise
This study investigated whether positive and negative romantic partner social control attempts (persuasion and pressure, respectively) were related to approach-avoidance motives and exercise among young adults ( N = 98), using daily reports. Daily persuasion was linked to higher daily approach motives. At the person level, persuasion was associated with higher approach and avoidance motives in addition to more frequent, longer exercise. Pressure …
Shifting priorities
We investigated whether partners in newly developing romantic relationships adjust their goals when they experience conflict with the goals of their partner, and the consequences of goal conflict and goal adjustment. Fifty-nine newly dating couples ( N = 118) reported on their goals at an initial session and again 3 months later. Multilevel models indicated that when people reported higher conflict between a goal and their partner's goals, they w…
Can you make my goals easier to achieve? Effects of partner instrumentality on goal pursuit and relationship satisfaction
Goal pursuits are strongly influenced by romantic partners, and a partner's instrumentality to goals may be particularly important for goal pursuit. This study examined the effects of partner instrumentality on goal-related effort, goal progress, goal commitment, and relationship satisfaction over time. It also examined whether relationship satisfaction moderated the effects of partner instrumentality on goal pursuit processes. Newly dating roman…
The burden of empathy
Empathy has often been discussed as a beneficial process from which favorable individual and interpersonal experiences may be derived. The present work investigates whether empathy may sometimes be a burden rather than a benefit, under certain interpersonal circumstances. Specifically, we hypothesized that encountering situations of divergence of interests with a partner may cause discomfort, and that empathizing with one's partner would exacerba…
How Sacrifice Impacts the Giver and the Recipient
This study investigated how sacrificing for approach versus avoidance goals shapes the giver's and the recipient's emotions and relationship quality. A sample of 80 dating couples participated in a three‐part study in which they discussed sacrifice in the laboratory (Part 1), reported on their daily sacrifices for 14 days (Part 2), and completed a follow‐up survey 3 months later (Part 3). When partners discussed a sacrifice they had made for appr…
Assessing relationship quality across cultures
Researchers are increasingly studying close relationships across cultural contexts. One issue that arises when applying scales originally developed in Western countries to a different cultural context is measurement invariance. Researchers often do not examine whether scales show invariance across cultures and thus can be used with confidence. The goal of this article is to discuss the importance of measurement invariance, to discuss what testing…
The independent contributions of social reward and threat perceptions to romantic commitment
Although separate literatures have emerged on effects of social threats (i.e., rejection and negative evaluation) and rewards (i.e., connection and intimacy) on the process of commitment to a romantic relationship, no research has examined the influence of both simultaneously. Using an attachment framework, we examined the relation of social threats and rewards to investment model constructs (i.e., commitment, satisfaction, investment, quality of…
Young Adults’ Attitudes and Reasoning About Gender Roles in the Family Context
Although the roles of men and women in society and the workplace have undergone dramatic change, there has been comparatively less change in the family roles of men and women. This study investigated young adults’ endorsements of and reasoning about gender roles in the context of the family. Participants ( N = 224) indicated their level of agreement with six different family roles and provided open-ended reasons to support their views. Social cog…
Valuing Romantic Relationships
Research has suggested that individuals lower in self-esteem restrain from fully valuing romantic relationships because of relatively low confidence in positive regard from their partners (i.e., positive reflected appraisals). MacDonald and Jessica (2006) provided evidence that in Indonesia, where family plays an important role in mate selection, low self-esteem also leads to doubts regarding family approval of the relationship that, in turn, pla…
The effects of romantic partners’ goal congruence on affective well-being
Broadening your horizons
In the early stages of romantic relationships, sexual desire is often intense, but over time, as partners get to know each other, desire tends to decline. Low sexual desire has negative implications for relationship satisfaction and maintenance. Self-expansion theory suggests that engaging in novel activities with a long-term romantic partner can reignite feelings of passion from the early stages of a relationship. Across 3 studies using dyadic, …
Broadening your horizon one day at a time
Self-expansion in intimate relationships (i.e., broadening one's perspective through engaging in novel, exciting activities with a partner) has been associated with relationship benefits. The goal of this study was to propose a motivational model of self-expansion to understand what prompts people to engage in self-expanding activities in their relationship on a daily basis. We hypothesized that when people report stronger daily approach relation…
The effects of romantic partners’ goal congruence on affective well-being
Shifting priorities
We investigated whether partners in newly developing romantic relationships adjust their goals when they experience conflict with the goals of their partner, and the consequences of goal conflict and goal adjustment. Fifty-nine newly dating couples ( N = 118) reported on their goals at an initial session and again 3 months later. Multilevel models indicated that when people reported higher conflict between a goal and their partner's goals, they w…
Can you make my goals easier to achieve? Effects of partner instrumentality on goal pursuit and relationship satisfaction
Goal pursuits are strongly influenced by romantic partners, and a partner's instrumentality to goals may be particularly important for goal pursuit. This study examined the effects of partner instrumentality on goal-related effort, goal progress, goal commitment, and relationship satisfaction over time. It also examined whether relationship satisfaction moderated the effects of partner instrumentality on goal pursuit processes. Newly dating roman…
The independent contributions of social reward and threat perceptions to romantic commitment
Although separate literatures have emerged on effects of social threats (i.e., rejection and negative evaluation) and rewards (i.e., connection and intimacy) on the process of commitment to a romantic relationship, no research has examined the influence of both simultaneously. Using an attachment framework, we examined the relation of social threats and rewards to investment model constructs (i.e., commitment, satisfaction, investment, quality of…
Valuing Romantic Relationships
Research has suggested that individuals lower in self-esteem restrain from fully valuing romantic relationships because of relatively low confidence in positive regard from their partners (i.e., positive reflected appraisals). MacDonald and Jessica (2006) provided evidence that in Indonesia, where family plays an important role in mate selection, low self-esteem also leads to doubts regarding family approval of the relationship that, in turn, pla…
Better together
Many people have goals to increase their physical activity levels through engaging in exercise, but have difficulty establishing and maintaining an exercise routine. Research shows that people are more successful at exercising if they do so together with their romantic partner. In this study, we examined how exercising with a romantic partner may influence the experience of exercise itself, as well as people's daily experiences. Specifically, we …
Relationship quality and accuracy of detecting a romantic partner's fear of being single
Young Adults’ Attitudes and Reasoning About Gender Roles in the Family Context
Although the roles of men and women in society and the workplace have undergone dramatic change, there has been comparatively less change in the family roles of men and women. This study investigated young adults’ endorsements of and reasoning about gender roles in the context of the family. Participants ( N = 224) indicated their level of agreement with six different family roles and provided open-ended reasons to support their views. Social cog…
Perceptions of a romantic partner’s approach and avoidance motives
We examined tracking accuracy and bias (mean-level and projection) in people's perceptions of their romantic partner's relationship approach and avoidance motives, similarity in partners' motives, and positive and negative emotions as potential cues used to make judgments about a partner's daily motives and motives during shared activities. Using data from 2 studies, 1 using daily diaries (N = 2,158 daily reports), the other using reports of shar…
Associations between social control, motivation, and exercise
This study investigated whether positive and negative romantic partner social control attempts (persuasion and pressure, respectively) were related to approach-avoidance motives and exercise among young adults ( N = 98), using daily reports. Daily persuasion was linked to higher daily approach motives. At the person level, persuasion was associated with higher approach and avoidance motives in addition to more frequent, longer exercise. Pressure …
Perceptions of daily sacrifice motives
The effects of romantic partners’ goal congruence on affective well-being
Young Adults’ Attitudes and Reasoning About Gender Roles in the Family Context
Although the roles of men and women in society and the workplace have undergone dramatic change, there has been comparatively less change in the family roles of men and women. This study investigated young adults’ endorsements of and reasoning about gender roles in the context of the family. Participants ( N = 224) indicated their level of agreement with six different family roles and provided open-ended reasons to support their views. Social cog…
Valuing Romantic Relationships
Research has suggested that individuals lower in self-esteem restrain from fully valuing romantic relationships because of relatively low confidence in positive regard from their partners (i.e., positive reflected appraisals). MacDonald and Jessica (2006) provided evidence that in Indonesia, where family plays an important role in mate selection, low self-esteem also leads to doubts regarding family approval of the relationship that, in turn, pla…
Assessing relationship quality across cultures
Researchers are increasingly studying close relationships across cultural contexts. One issue that arises when applying scales originally developed in Western countries to a different cultural context is measurement invariance. Researchers often do not examine whether scales show invariance across cultures and thus can be used with confidence. The goal of this article is to discuss the importance of measurement invariance, to discuss what testing…
The independent contributions of social reward and threat perceptions to romantic commitment
Although separate literatures have emerged on effects of social threats (i.e., rejection and negative evaluation) and rewards (i.e., connection and intimacy) on the process of commitment to a romantic relationship, no research has examined the influence of both simultaneously. Using an attachment framework, we examined the relation of social threats and rewards to investment model constructs (i.e., commitment, satisfaction, investment, quality of…
How Sacrifice Impacts the Giver and the Recipient
This study investigated how sacrificing for approach versus avoidance goals shapes the giver's and the recipient's emotions and relationship quality. A sample of 80 dating couples participated in a three‐part study in which they discussed sacrifice in the laboratory (Part 1), reported on their daily sacrifices for 14 days (Part 2), and completed a follow‐up survey 3 months later (Part 3). When partners discussed a sacrifice they had made for appr…
The burden of empathy
Empathy has often been discussed as a beneficial process from which favorable individual and interpersonal experiences may be derived. The present work investigates whether empathy may sometimes be a burden rather than a benefit, under certain interpersonal circumstances. Specifically, we hypothesized that encountering situations of divergence of interests with a partner may cause discomfort, and that empathizing with one's partner would exacerba…
Shifting priorities
We investigated whether partners in newly developing romantic relationships adjust their goals when they experience conflict with the goals of their partner, and the consequences of goal conflict and goal adjustment. Fifty-nine newly dating couples ( N = 118) reported on their goals at an initial session and again 3 months later. Multilevel models indicated that when people reported higher conflict between a goal and their partner's goals, they w…
Can you make my goals easier to achieve? Effects of partner instrumentality on goal pursuit and relationship satisfaction
Goal pursuits are strongly influenced by romantic partners, and a partner's instrumentality to goals may be particularly important for goal pursuit. This study examined the effects of partner instrumentality on goal-related effort, goal progress, goal commitment, and relationship satisfaction over time. It also examined whether relationship satisfaction moderated the effects of partner instrumentality on goal pursuit processes. Newly dating roman…
Broadening your horizons
In the early stages of romantic relationships, sexual desire is often intense, but over time, as partners get to know each other, desire tends to decline. Low sexual desire has negative implications for relationship satisfaction and maintenance. Self-expansion theory suggests that engaging in novel activities with a long-term romantic partner can reignite feelings of passion from the early stages of a relationship. Across 3 studies using dyadic, …
Associations between social control, motivation, and exercise
This study investigated whether positive and negative romantic partner social control attempts (persuasion and pressure, respectively) were related to approach-avoidance motives and exercise among young adults ( N = 98), using daily reports. Daily persuasion was linked to higher daily approach motives. At the person level, persuasion was associated with higher approach and avoidance motives in addition to more frequent, longer exercise. Pressure …
Relationship quality and accuracy of detecting a romantic partner's fear of being single
Perceptions of a romantic partner’s approach and avoidance motives
We examined tracking accuracy and bias (mean-level and projection) in people's perceptions of their romantic partner's relationship approach and avoidance motives, similarity in partners' motives, and positive and negative emotions as potential cues used to make judgments about a partner's daily motives and motives during shared activities. Using data from 2 studies, 1 using daily diaries (N = 2,158 daily reports), the other using reports of shar…
Broadening your horizon one day at a time
Self-expansion in intimate relationships (i.e., broadening one's perspective through engaging in novel, exciting activities with a partner) has been associated with relationship benefits. The goal of this study was to propose a motivational model of self-expansion to understand what prompts people to engage in self-expanding activities in their relationship on a daily basis. We hypothesized that when people report stronger daily approach relation…
Consideration of Future Consequences Influences Involvement in Romantic Partners’ Health
This study examined the influence of people’s short-term (e.g., convenience) and long-term (e.g., maintain weight) motives toward their romantic partner’s health on their provision of health-related social control and autonomy support for their partner’s health behaviors, as well as their indifference toward their romantic partner’s health. Data from a sample of cohabiting couples (N = 212) were analyzed using multilevel path models. Results show…
Perceptions of daily sacrifice motives
Better together
Many people have goals to increase their physical activity levels through engaging in exercise, but have difficulty establishing and maintaining an exercise routine. Research shows that people are more successful at exercising if they do so together with their romantic partner. In this study, we examined how exercising with a romantic partner may influence the experience of exercise itself, as well as people's daily experiences. Specifically, we …
Congruence and goal sharing of health-related goals among newly dating individuals explaining goal importance and commitment
OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to determine whether perceived goal sharing (i.e., perceiving a partner as having the same health-related goal) and/or perceived goal congruence (i.e., being able to spend time together in health-related goal activities) with a romantic partner are associated with health-related goal commitment and importance. DESIGN AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: 80 participants with a health-related goal in a larger study on newly dating…
Perceptions of partner social control
Objective We examined accuracy and bias in people’s perceptions of their romantic partner’s daily social control attempts of daily health behaviours and how misperceptions of partner daily social control are related to both partners’ daily experiences.Design 106 cohabiting couples from the community reported on their own and their partner’s daily social control attempts (i.e., persuasion, pressure) and their daily experiences (i.e., positive and …
A meta-analytic review of accuracy and bias in romantic partner perceptions
People's perceptions of their romantic partners are somewhat accurate but also contain biases. In the current meta-analytic review, we sought to examine overall levels of accuracy and bias in romantic partner perceptions and moderators of accuracy and bias. We examined tracking accuracy (k = 157), projection (k = 157), indirect accuracy (k = 69), and mean-level bias (k = 153) in perceptions of a romantic partner across samples that estimated trac…
Influence of Agreeableness on Responsiveness
OBJECTIVE: The trait agreeableness is associated with relationship outcomes and relationship maintenance behaviors, but the processes by which this influence occurs are not fully understood. We examine whether agreeableness is associated with an important relationship process, responsiveness, and whether agreeableness is associated with effort and social skills to be responsive to one's romantic partner. METHODS: We tested our predictions in two …
Daily perceptions of romantic partner autonomy support and undermining of health behavior
OBJECTIVE: This study examined accuracy and bias in daily perceptions of a romantic partner's autonomy support and undermining of health behaviors and the associations between misperceptions and both partners' daily experiences. DESIGN: = 2377) of their own and their partner's autonomy support and undermining, and their daily experiences. RESULTS: We found tracking accuracy and projection in perceptions of provider's autonomy support and undermin…
Do people know how they impact their Partner’s goal pursuit? Accuracy, bias, and associations with relationship outcomes
We examined accuracy and bias in perceptions of one’s instrumentality to and obstruction of daily partner goal pursuit, and associations of mean-level bias with daily relationship outcomes. Daily reports ( N = 2,377) from cohabiting couples ( N = 106 couples), using multilevel path models, indicated that perceptions of own instrumentality to and obstruction of partner goals contain tracking accuracy and projection and partners were similar in ins…
Psychology (21 obras) · Social Psychology (20 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (19 obras) · Developmental psychology (13 obras) · Romance (13 obras) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (12 obras) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (10 obras) · Perception (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Closeness (4 obras)