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The accounts that people give for why their relationship ended may allow them to:

The _____ pattern is more common among couples in distressed marriages.  

Survey data reveal that most men and women _____ infidelity and hold _____ attitudes about “cheating spouses.”

According to research on how dating relationships progress over time (e.g., King & Christensen, 1983), which of the following events is likely to occur first?

According to Reis and colleagues’ (1988) Intimacy Theory, which of the following is the key mechanism in creating intimacy and promoting relationship development?

Higher levels of conflict are associated with the tendency to view a partner’s negative behavior as:

The concept “field of availables” refers to:

One of the first studies to document the impact of physical attractiveness on interpersonal attraction was the “computer dance” study conducted by Hatfield and colleagues (1966). What did the researchers find?

A relationship in which the ratio of one partner’s benefits to investments is not equal to the ratio of the other partner’s benefits to investments, would be called:

Which of the following are the two major principles of selective attention?