Richard E Mattson
Biographic Data
| ID | 650458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard E Mattson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattson |
| SIGNATURE | MATTSON R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9065-3843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The dark side of touch
Emerging research highlights that while intimate touch is often associated with relational well-being, individual differences exist in the extent to which it is experienced as aversive or used for coercive purposes. Dark triad personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism) may contribute to these variations in touch experiences and behaviors, yet their role remains underexplored. In a sample of college students in romant…
Explicating the direct and indirect effects of minority stressors on physical violence perpetration among same- and different-gender lesbian, gay, and bisexual couples
The Moderating Role of Stress Mindset on the Relationship between Drinking to Cope and Alcohol Consumption among Undergraduate College Student Drinkers
OBJECTIVE: Previous research suggests drinking alcohol to cope with negative affect, including stress, is a risk for increased alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. Stress mindset, the individually held belief that stress can lead to either enhancing or debilitating outcomes, has yet to be studied within the context of alcohol use. Studying stress mindset among college students as it relates to alcohol consumption may provide importan…
Men’s Perception of Women’s Passive Sexual Responses Impacts Their Decision-Making During Simulated Hookups
Social support and perceived partner responsiveness have complex associations with salivary cortisol in married couples
Spousal support may help ameliorate the health consequences of stressful situations by downregulating cortisol. To examine how cortisol levels change in conjunction with spousal social support during discussions of a stressful situation, 191 married couples engaged in two 10-minute interactions addressing a personal (i.e., non-marital) problem. We coded for positive and negative social support provision and receipt, assessed the perception of rec…
A novel ego dissolution scale
Accurately detecting happy facial expressions associates with perceptions of flirtatiousness
Emotional facial expressions are relevant to flirtation because they provide information on an individual's intentions or motivations. Individual differences in the ability to accurately detect and discriminate between normative facially expressed emotions could lead to misperceptions of the level of sexual interest being conveyed, which has been linked to sexual assault and harassment. To explore this notion, we recruited a national sample of co…
Just Say Yes? A Cluster Analytic Approach to Evaluating College Students’ Understandings of Affirmative Consent
Indiscrete
Does Perceived Injury Explain the Effects of Gender on Attributions of Blame for Intimate Partner Violence? A Factorial Vignette Analysis
Touch me just enough
Nonsexual physical affection plays an important role in marital functioning, but not all individuals are satisfied with the intimate touch they receive from their partner. Differences in adult attachment tendencies may be one way to understand the individual differences in touch satisfaction. Using a sample of 180 different-sex married couples, we explored how attachment associates with touch satisfaction in marriage in a cross-sectional investig…
Dyadic alcohol use, alcohol-specific conflict, and relationship dissatisfaction in treatment-seeking men and their female partners
Intimate partners consuming different amounts of alcohol tend to have lower relationship satisfaction, whereas those drinking at similar levels often report happier unions. It is presently unclear how dyadic alcohol use patterns impact relationship satisfaction for couples wherein one member has an alcohol use disorder. We examined this using longitudinal data from an alcoholic treatment sample ( N = 181) and further explored whether conflict pur…
Now or Later? Attentional Processing and Intertemporal Choice
The tendency to discount future prospects in lieu of smaller immediate outcomes is known as temporal discounting. The current work used eye‐tracking methodology to examine attentional processing to different elements of choice during an intertemporal decision task. Our findings reveal that those who tend to prefer the immediate option demonstrate attentional biases that were predictive of choice. When losses were at stake, selective attention bia…
The positive and negative semantic dimensions of relationship satisfaction
Semantic differential items were reconfigured to assess relationship satisfaction across separate positive and negative attitude dimensions. Study 1 ( N = 1,656) supported a 2‐factor model for the Positive and Negative Semantic Differential (PN–SMD), as well as its convergent, criterion‐related, and incremental validity over the 16‐item Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI; J. L. Funk & R. D. Rogge, 2007) using known correlates of relationship satisfa…
Premarital affect as a predictor of postnuptial marital satisfaction
Although well established with newlywed couples, studies examining the association between affective communication during conflict and later relationship satisfaction yield inconsistent results with premarital samples. The current study reexamined this association with a different method of coding affect observed during discussions of separate male‐ and female‐selected problem topics and contemporary methods for modeling dyadic data. The sample i…
Female Perpetrated Dyadic Psychological Aggression Predicts Relapse in a Treatment Sample of Men with Substance Use Disorders
Divergent Validity of Measures of Cognitive Distortions, Impulsivity, and Time Perspective in Pathological Gambling
Now or Later? Attentional Processing and Intertemporal Choice
The tendency to discount future prospects in lieu of smaller immediate outcomes is known as temporal discounting. The current work used eye‐tracking methodology to examine attentional processing to different elements of choice during an intertemporal decision task. Our findings reveal that those who tend to prefer the immediate option demonstrate attentional biases that were predictive of choice. When losses were at stake, selective attention bia…
Does Perceived Injury Explain the Effects of Gender on Attributions of Blame for Intimate Partner Violence? A Factorial Vignette Analysis
Touch me just enough
Nonsexual physical affection plays an important role in marital functioning, but not all individuals are satisfied with the intimate touch they receive from their partner. Differences in adult attachment tendencies may be one way to understand the individual differences in touch satisfaction. Using a sample of 180 different-sex married couples, we explored how attachment associates with touch satisfaction in marriage in a cross-sectional investig…
Dyadic alcohol use, alcohol-specific conflict, and relationship dissatisfaction in treatment-seeking men and their female partners
Intimate partners consuming different amounts of alcohol tend to have lower relationship satisfaction, whereas those drinking at similar levels often report happier unions. It is presently unclear how dyadic alcohol use patterns impact relationship satisfaction for couples wherein one member has an alcohol use disorder. We examined this using longitudinal data from an alcoholic treatment sample ( N = 181) and further explored whether conflict pur…
Social support and perceived partner responsiveness have complex associations with salivary cortisol in married couples
Spousal support may help ameliorate the health consequences of stressful situations by downregulating cortisol. To examine how cortisol levels change in conjunction with spousal social support during discussions of a stressful situation, 191 married couples engaged in two 10-minute interactions addressing a personal (i.e., non-marital) problem. We coded for positive and negative social support provision and receipt, assessed the perception of rec…
Accurately detecting happy facial expressions associates with perceptions of flirtatiousness
Emotional facial expressions are relevant to flirtation because they provide information on an individual's intentions or motivations. Individual differences in the ability to accurately detect and discriminate between normative facially expressed emotions could lead to misperceptions of the level of sexual interest being conveyed, which has been linked to sexual assault and harassment. To explore this notion, we recruited a national sample of co…
Just Say Yes? A Cluster Analytic Approach to Evaluating College Students’ Understandings of Affirmative Consent
Indiscrete
Female Perpetrated Dyadic Psychological Aggression Predicts Relapse in a Treatment Sample of Men with Substance Use Disorders
Divergent Validity of Measures of Cognitive Distortions, Impulsivity, and Time Perspective in Pathological Gambling
Female Perpetrated Dyadic Psychological Aggression Predicts Relapse in a Treatment Sample of Men with Substance Use Disorders
Premarital affect as a predictor of postnuptial marital satisfaction
Although well established with newlywed couples, studies examining the association between affective communication during conflict and later relationship satisfaction yield inconsistent results with premarital samples. The current study reexamined this association with a different method of coding affect observed during discussions of separate male‐ and female‐selected problem topics and contemporary methods for modeling dyadic data. The sample i…
The positive and negative semantic dimensions of relationship satisfaction
Semantic differential items were reconfigured to assess relationship satisfaction across separate positive and negative attitude dimensions. Study 1 ( N = 1,656) supported a 2‐factor model for the Positive and Negative Semantic Differential (PN–SMD), as well as its convergent, criterion‐related, and incremental validity over the 16‐item Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI; J. L. Funk & R. D. Rogge, 2007) using known correlates of relationship satisfa…
Now or Later? Attentional Processing and Intertemporal Choice
The tendency to discount future prospects in lieu of smaller immediate outcomes is known as temporal discounting. The current work used eye‐tracking methodology to examine attentional processing to different elements of choice during an intertemporal decision task. Our findings reveal that those who tend to prefer the immediate option demonstrate attentional biases that were predictive of choice. When losses were at stake, selective attention bia…
Dyadic alcohol use, alcohol-specific conflict, and relationship dissatisfaction in treatment-seeking men and their female partners
Intimate partners consuming different amounts of alcohol tend to have lower relationship satisfaction, whereas those drinking at similar levels often report happier unions. It is presently unclear how dyadic alcohol use patterns impact relationship satisfaction for couples wherein one member has an alcohol use disorder. We examined this using longitudinal data from an alcoholic treatment sample ( N = 181) and further explored whether conflict pur…
Does Perceived Injury Explain the Effects of Gender on Attributions of Blame for Intimate Partner Violence? A Factorial Vignette Analysis
Touch me just enough
Nonsexual physical affection plays an important role in marital functioning, but not all individuals are satisfied with the intimate touch they receive from their partner. Differences in adult attachment tendencies may be one way to understand the individual differences in touch satisfaction. Using a sample of 180 different-sex married couples, we explored how attachment associates with touch satisfaction in marriage in a cross-sectional investig…
Indiscrete
Just Say Yes? A Cluster Analytic Approach to Evaluating College Students’ Understandings of Affirmative Consent
A novel ego dissolution scale
Accurately detecting happy facial expressions associates with perceptions of flirtatiousness
Emotional facial expressions are relevant to flirtation because they provide information on an individual's intentions or motivations. Individual differences in the ability to accurately detect and discriminate between normative facially expressed emotions could lead to misperceptions of the level of sexual interest being conveyed, which has been linked to sexual assault and harassment. To explore this notion, we recruited a national sample of co…
The Moderating Role of Stress Mindset on the Relationship between Drinking to Cope and Alcohol Consumption among Undergraduate College Student Drinkers
OBJECTIVE: Previous research suggests drinking alcohol to cope with negative affect, including stress, is a risk for increased alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. Stress mindset, the individually held belief that stress can lead to either enhancing or debilitating outcomes, has yet to be studied within the context of alcohol use. Studying stress mindset among college students as it relates to alcohol consumption may provide importan…
Men’s Perception of Women’s Passive Sexual Responses Impacts Their Decision-Making During Simulated Hookups
Social support and perceived partner responsiveness have complex associations with salivary cortisol in married couples
Spousal support may help ameliorate the health consequences of stressful situations by downregulating cortisol. To examine how cortisol levels change in conjunction with spousal social support during discussions of a stressful situation, 191 married couples engaged in two 10-minute interactions addressing a personal (i.e., non-marital) problem. We coded for positive and negative social support provision and receipt, assessed the perception of rec…
The dark side of touch
Emerging research highlights that while intimate touch is often associated with relational well-being, individual differences exist in the extent to which it is experienced as aversive or used for coercive purposes. Dark triad personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism) may contribute to these variations in touch experiences and behaviors, yet their role remains underexplored. In a sample of college students in romant…
Explicating the direct and indirect effects of minority stressors on physical violence perpetration among same- and different-gender lesbian, gay, and bisexual couples
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (4 works)