Interpersonal Processes in Close Relationships

Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix.

1959 • 16,404 citations

Identity, youth, and crisis

1968 • 13,355 citations

Childhood and Society

1950 • 11,683 citations

Mood and memory.

1981 • 5,114 citations

The hidden dimension

1966 • 4,761 citations

Public and private self-consciousness: Assessment and theory.

1975 • 3,631 citations

The revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: Concurrent and discriminant validity evidence.

1980 • 3,468 citations

Trust in close relationships.

1985 • 2,747 citations

Equity : theory and research

1978 • 2,473 citations

Process Analysis

1981 • 2,350 citations

Measures of perceived social support from friends and from family: Three validation studies

1983 • 2,145 citations

A triangular theory of love.

1986 • 1,995 citations

Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior

1988 • 1,766 citations

Emotion in the Human Face

1972 • 1,488 citations

Self-disclosure: A literature review.

1973 • 1,230 citations

Intimacy as an interpersonal process

2018 • 1,169 citations

Is empathic emotion a source of altruistic motivation?

1981 • 1,002 citations

The Experience Sampling Method

2014 • 1,002 citations

Social Exchange

1980 • 989 citations

The opponent-process theory of acquired motivation: The costs of pleasure and the benefits of pain.

1980 • 932 citations

A theory and method of love.

1986 • 896 citations

Public Appearances, Private Realities: The Psychology of Self-Monitoring.

1988 • 849 citations

Marital interaction: Physiological linkage and affective exchange.

1983 • 789 citations

Studies on anger and aggression: Implications for theories of emotion.

1983 • 763 citations

Self-verification processes: How we sustain our self-conceptions

1981 • 704 citations

Personal Relationships: Their Structures and Processes

1979 • 698 citations

Social Anxiousness: The Construct and Its Measurement

1983 • 689 citations

The Social Relations Model

1984 • 603 citations

The Topography of Marital Conflict: A Sequential Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior

1977 • 577 citations

Affect and cognition

1983 • 542 citations

Openers: Individuals who elicit intimate self-disclosure.

1983 • 498 citations

Empathy-based helping: Is it selflessly or selfishly motivated?

1987 • 496 citations

Sex differences in same-sex friendship

1982 • 487 citations

Success, failure, attention, and reaction to others: The warm glow of success.

1970 • 443 citations

Physiological and affective predictors of change in relationship satisfaction.

1985 • 418 citations

Mood and self-efficacy: Impact of joy and sadness on perceived capabilities

1985 • 414 citations

Recipient's mood, relationship type, and helping.

1987 • 396 citations

The dissolution of romantic relationships: Factors involved in relationship stability and emotional distress.

1987 • 369 citations

Justice in Social Relations

1986 • 354 citations

Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

1979 • 307 citations

Reciprocity of social exchange and social satisfaction among older women.

1987 • 271 citations

Deserving and the Emergence of Forms of Justice

1976 • 246 citations

Intimacy and reciprocity of exchange: A comparison of spouses and strangers.

1978 • 226 citations

The Relation Between Inequity and Emotions in Close Relationships

1986 • 214 citations

Intimacy and affiliation motives in daily living: An experience sampling analysis.

1983 • 200 citations

A Theory and Investigation of the Effect of Exchange-Orientation on Marriage and Friendship

1977 • 191 citations

Self-Disclosure in Dating Couples: Sex Roles and the Ethic of Openness

1980 • 191 citations

Sex differences in the intimacy of social interaction: Further examination of potential explanations.

1985 • 191 citations

A thematic coding system for the intimacy motive

1980 • 181 citations

The nature of love.

1984 • 168 citations

Asymmetry of happiness and sadness in effects on memory in normal college students: Comment on Hasher, Rose, Zacks, Sanft, and Doren.

1985 • 167 citations

The Changing Functions of Friends in Childhood: A Neo-Sullivanian Perspective

1986 • 162 citations

Developing close relationships: Changing patterns of interaction between pair members and social networks.

1983 • 159 citations

A Little Bit about Love

1974 • 159 citations

Choosing friends as activity partners: The role of self-monitoring.

1983 • 156 citations

Misunderstandings in marital communication: A study of couples' nonverbal communication.

1980 • 154 citations

The Justice motive in social behavior : adapting to times of scarcity and change

1981 • 151 citations

The development of intimate relationships.

1987 • 141 citations

The Social Relations Model: An integrative method for personality research

1986 • 138 citations

Prototypes of Intimacy and Distance in Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Relationships

1987 • 134 citations

Norms Concerning Distributive Justice: Are Needs Taken Into Consideration in Allocation Decisions?

1980 • 131 citations

Boys and girls together—and alienated: On enacting stereotyped sex roles in mixed-sex dyads.

1978 • 130 citations

Friendship and love relationships.

1982 • 129 citations

The Social Reticence Scale: An Objective Instrument to Measure Shyness

1982 • 126 citations

Equity and premarital sex.

1978 • 122 citations

Concepts of Intimacy in the General Population

1980 • 120 citations

On the Origin of the Specious: Are Personal Relationships Really Interpersonal States?

1983 • 116 citations

Equity and Equality: Male and Female Means to a Just End

1980 • 112 citations

The Multidimensionality of Justice

1984 • 107 citations

Psychology and Justice

1986 • 104 citations

Intimacy Motivation and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Longitudinal Study

1982 • 102 citations

Emotional communication in close relationships.

1985 • 101 citations

Are there special effects of personalistic self-disclosure?

1976 • 101 citations

Reciprocity of self-disclosure at the individual and dyadic levels: A social relations analysis.

1986 • 99 citations

Love acts: The evolutionary biology of love.

1988 • 99 citations

Childhood development as a predictor of adaptation in adulthood.

1984 • 97 citations

Looking, laughing, and smiling in dyads as a function of intimacy motivation and reciprocity

1984 • 89 citations

Positive and negative forms of social support: Effects of conversational topics on coping with stress among same-sex friends

1988 • 87 citations

Themes of intimacy in behavior and thought.

1981 • 80 citations

Gender Effects in an Initial Encounter: A Case Where Men Exceed Women in Disclosure

1985 • 65 citations

Gender and Self-Disclosure

1987 • 61 citations

Self-disclosure, intimacy, and the depenetration process.

1984 • 58 citations

Marriage and Verbal Intimacy

1987 • 55 citations

Responses to self-disclosure and interaction goals

1982 • 53 citations

Vivid Memories of Vivid Loves Gone by

1986 • 51 citations

Need Consideration in Allocation Decisions: Is it Just?

1983 • 49 citations

Human Motives and Personal Relationships

1984 • 45 citations

The Effect of Equity, Equality, and Reward Level on the Stability of Students' Premarital Relationships

1985 • 43 citations

The Need Principle of Distributive Justice

1986 • 42 citations

Sex and Sex-Role Influences in Same-Sex Dyads

1979 • 42 citations

Selectivity and Urgency in Interpersonal Exchange

1984 • 42 citations

Care, need, and conceptions of love.

1982 • 42 citations

Separation-individuation and intimacy capacity in college women.

1985 • 41 citations

Intimacy in conversational style as a function of the degree of closeness between members of a dyad.

1985 • 39 citations

EQUITY AND PREMARITAL SEX

1979 • 39 citations

On specificity in the impact of social participation on physical and psychological health.

1985 • 39 citations

Disclosure or concern: A second look at liking for the norm breaker1

1980 • 36 citations

On the social advantages of having an older, opposite-sex sibling: Birth order influences in mixed-sex dyads.

1983 • 35 citations

Some reflections on the two psychologies of love

1986 • 34 citations

Equity and Rewards as Predictors of Satisfaction in Casual and Intimate Relationships

1982 • 31 citations

A social relations analysis of nonverbal communication accuracy in married couples

1986 • 30 citations

The matching hypothesis reconsidered again: Comment on Kalick and Hamilton.

1988 • 26 citations

A Social-Psychological Analysis of Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy

1987 • 18 citations

Attribution of Friendship: The Influence of the Nature and Comparability of Resources Given and Received

2012 • 15 citations

Friendly or just polite? The effect of self‐esteem on attributions

1977 • 11 citations

Merger intimacy status in adult women.

1986 • 6 citations

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1955 • 0 citations