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Couple similarity in empathic accuracy and relationship well-being

Liesbet Berlamont (UGent) , Eva Ceulemans, Chiara Carlier, Lesley Verhofstadt (UGent) , William Ickes, Celine Hinnekens and Laura Sels (UGent)
(2024) JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. 41(6). p.1301-1323
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Are intimate partners similar in how accurately they infer each other's feelings and thoughts, and if so, does this similarity predict their relationship well-being? To answer this question, we analyzed data from two laboratory-based studies (n = 155 and n = 172 couples) in which couples participated in a conflict interaction task and afterwards reported on their own feelings and thoughts and inferred those of their partner. Relationship well-being was measured on both a global (i.e., relationship satisfaction) and a situational level (i.e., post-interaction closeness and satisfaction with the outcome of the interaction). We found that intimate partners were more similar in their empathic accuracy than randomly-paired individuals. This similarity predicted the extent to which partners reported that the conflict interaction had led to a positive outcome for their relationship, but was not associated with partners' global relationship satisfaction or their post-interaction closeness.
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empathic accuracy, intimate relationships, relationship well-being, similarity, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE EI, RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION, RELATIONSHIP, QUALITY, MARITAL SATISFACTION, ATTRACTION, CONVERGENCE, CONFLICT, PREDICTS, HEART, POWER

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Berlamont, Liesbet, et al. “Couple Similarity in Empathic Accuracy and Relationship Well-Being.” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, vol. 41, no. 6, 2024, pp. 1301–23, doi:10.1177/02654075231206412.
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Berlamont, L., Ceulemans, E., Carlier, C., Verhofstadt, L., Ickes, W., Hinnekens, C., & Sels, L. (2024). Couple similarity in empathic accuracy and relationship well-being. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, 41(6), 1301–1323. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231206412
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Berlamont, Liesbet, Eva Ceulemans, Chiara Carlier, Lesley Verhofstadt, William Ickes, Celine Hinnekens, and Laura Sels. 2024. “Couple Similarity in Empathic Accuracy and Relationship Well-Being.” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 41 (6): 1301–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231206412.
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Berlamont, Liesbet, Eva Ceulemans, Chiara Carlier, Lesley Verhofstadt, William Ickes, Celine Hinnekens, and Laura Sels. 2024. “Couple Similarity in Empathic Accuracy and Relationship Well-Being.” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS 41 (6): 1301–1323. doi:10.1177/02654075231206412.
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Berlamont L, Ceulemans E, Carlier C, Verhofstadt L, Ickes W, Hinnekens C, et al. Couple similarity in empathic accuracy and relationship well-being. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. 2024;41(6):1301–23.
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L. Berlamont et al., “Couple similarity in empathic accuracy and relationship well-being,” JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 1301–1323, 2024.
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