Tempting today, troubling tomorrow: The roots of the precarious couple effect

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-103

  Swann Jr , William B ^a   Sellers, Jennifer Guinn ^a   McClarty, Katie Larsen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Personality; Relationships; Social; Verbal inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PERSONALITY; REVIEW; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERSONALITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 30344440082     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205279584     Document Type: Review

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