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Kakinuma & Izuma's study tested how people try to change their partner's behaviors during conflict and what influences partners’ willingness to change, revealing key psychological drivers of conflict resolution through communication.
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Zhou et al. explore how the emotional tone of social interactions relates to well-being and tests how three different measures of it align.
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Next up in our Meet the Team Series: Lik Sam Chan! He’s been a JSPR reviewer for 7 years and just became an Associate Editor this year. 🎉

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A threat-complexity hypothesis of conspiracy thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-national and longitudinal evidence of a three-way interaction effect of financial strain, disempowerment and p... One way to cope with crises is by attributing their ultimate causes to malevolent conspiracies. As crises are rarely simple, and may involve an interplay betwee...

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Pica et al.’s study explored how financial strain, disempowerment, and paranoia—intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic—combine to fuel belief in conspiracy theories.
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Kabasakal & Cimsir’s study explored how people judge ghosting and ghosters in cross-sex friendships vs. romantic relationships, revealing how gender and context shape perceptions.
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Nikolajsen et al.’s study explores how being estranged from adult children affects older parents’ mental health, including their well-being, sense of purpose, depression, and loneliness.
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Next up is Dr. Leslie R. Nelson! She’s been an Associate Editor since early this year and now assists our Editor-in-Chief. Her research contexts span foster, adoptive, Black, interfaith, LGBTQ+, and mother-daughter family ties.

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Dial et al.’s study examined how different ways of coping with anger—holding it in, expressing it, or managing it—affect the quality of daily social interactions.
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Jordan’s study investigated how parents’ weight-related comments can shape kids’ beliefs about diet culture as well as influencing their eating habits and body image.
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First up in our Meet the Team Series is Liesel Sharabi! She is one of our Associate Editors since 2024!

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships - Volume 42, Number 7 Table of contents for Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 42, 7

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Happy National Minority Mental Health and Disability Pride Month from all of us at JSPR! Celebrate the scholarly way with our July Issue that’s out now! Check out the issue here:
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From et al.’s scoping review analyzes 339 studies on how similarity affects outcomes in romantic relationships. It highlights trends in similarity types, measurement methods, and study samples.
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Can I trust you? Bidirectional, longitudinal associations between trust and various topics of couple communication - Ashley Forbush, Ashley B. LeBaron-Black, Matthew T. Saxey, Sofia Suxo-Sanchez, Erin... Trust and communication are both vital elements of successful couple relationships. Despite scholars positing that a sense of trust and quality communication co...

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Forbush et al.’s study used data from 2,168 newlywed couples to examine how trust and different types of communication (general, sexual, financial) influence each other over time.
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Dennett et al’s study uses qualitative methods to explore how single people navigate the mix of challenges and growth that come with being single.
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Wolfer & @cherylcarmichael.bsky.social’s 21-day diary study uses interdependence theory to explore how gendered orgasm goal pursuit (OGP) contributes to the orgasm gap in heterosexual relationships.
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Talk is (still) cheap: A multi-informant analysis of parent financial socialization during adolescence - Ashley B. LeBaron-Black, Sofia C. Suxo-Sanchez, Elise Rich, Adam A. Rogers, Loren D. Marks, 202... Grounded in family financial socialization theory, the purpose of this study was to better understand parent financial socialization processes and outcomes by i...

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LaBaron-Black et al.’s study took a fresh, real-time look at how parents teach teens about money—straight from the source, not just the memory bank.
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Don & Ferrer’s study used long-term and daily data to explore how receiving gratitude from a partner can boost one's self-esteem by signaling relational value.
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“Is mommy getting a day off?” Gay fathers’ approaches to socialization around family diversity and children’s surrogacy origins - Nicola Carone, Jacopo Tracchegiani, Michael Kuhl, Gianluca Cruciani, Maria Quintigliano, 2025 The present study explored the approaches employed by gay fathers to socialize their children regarding their family diversity and surrogacy origins. In-home, s...

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Carone et al.’s study looked at how gay fathers talk to their young children about their family structure and surrogacy origins.
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Positive peripheral social partners: Relationship and social interaction evaluations across adulthood - Claire M. Growney, Tammy English, 2025 Older adults are theorized to prioritize relationships with close social partners who support their emotional goals. Throughout the lifespan, social partners of...

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Growney’s & English’s study explored how age and social closeness relate to how people view their relationships and interactions.
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Happy Pride Month from all of us at JSPR! Celebrate the scholarly way with our June Issue out now! 🏳️‍🌈🎉

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Hoór et al.'s study looked at the support networks of young adults in rural South Africa by using surveys and statistical analysis to explore what their social support looks like.
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Junkins et al.’s study looked at how attachment to parents might shape romantic relationships, focusing on nonbinary adults—a group often overlooked in attachment research.
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Wang et al.’s study explored whether emotional resilience explains the link between victimization and depression as well as if friendship and gender influence it.
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Greater average levels of relatedness need fulfilment across daily and monthly life predict lower attachment insecurities across time - Yuthika U. Girme, Nickola C. Overall, 2025 Attachment insecurity is characterized by chronic concerns about whether partners can fulfil core relatedness needs, including feeling loved and cared about. In...

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@ygirme.bsky.social & Overall examined how feeling loved and connected in a relationship can reduce attachment insecurity over time, using two long-term studies.
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Santucci et al.’s review looks at the growing research on friendship breakups from childhood to young adulthood, focusing on how often they happen, why they happen, and how they unfold.
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