Publications

Publication details [#43272]

Gottman, John M., Kimberly Ryan, Catherine Swanson and Kristin Swanson. 2005. Proximal Change Experiments With Couples: A Methodology for Empirically Building a Science of Effective Interventions for Changing Couples' Interaction. Journal of Family Communication 5 (3) : 163–190.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | family conversation | interaction | marriage counseling | problem solving

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper proposes a methodological innovation, referred to as "proximal change experiments", used to increase couple's positive affect during conflictual interaction.