Grounding Social Psychology in Behavior in Daily Life: The Case of Conflict and Distress in Couples

Then A Miracle Occurs: Focusing on Behavior in Social Psychological Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bolger, Niall ^a   Stadler, Gertraud ^a   Paprocki, Christine ^a   DeLongis, Anita ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavior; Behavioral variability; Close relationships; Daily diaries; Dyadic data; Marital conflict; Multilevel modeling; Personality; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377798.003.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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