This research had two central goals: to examine the role of personality in (a) performing actions that anger spouses, and (b) eliciting anger-provoking actions from spouses. Personality data on a sample of married persons (N = 214) were obtained from three sources--self-report, spouse-observer report, and independent interviewers' reports. In a separate session, subjects recorded which of 147 u...

This study tested the hypothesis that spousal esteem and disparagement are psychological states that track the costs and benefits of marriage to a particular person. Three separate data sources were used. First, 214 married participants reported on their personality, the esteem they held for their spouse, and issues the couple disagreed about. Second, participants provided information on their ...

The academic seminar is a communicative and cultural institution of long standing. Today, its ideal purpose is often said to be the promotion of free and critical inquiry, in relation to a selected topic, in an academic scientific setting. Ideally, it should supplement the finding, teaching and learning of facts by providing teachers and students an opportunity to participate in a systematicall...

Two studies examined whether forgiveness in married couples is associated with better conflict resolution. Study 1 examined couples in their 3rd year of marriage and identified 2 forgiveness dimensions (retaliation and benevolence). Husbands' retaliatory motivation was a significant predictor of poorer wife-reported conflict resolution, whereas wives' benevolence motivation predicted husbands' ...

In this paper I we will compare the semantic fields of conflict and non-conflict (conflict handling) in Swedish and Malay. For an introduction to concept of “semantic fields”, cf Trier (1931), Weisgerber (1953-54), Lehrer (1974), Lyons (1977). The study covers words which may be used to refer to or describe conflict and non-conflict (conflict handling), rather than words by which conflict could...

This paper deals with a well known problem in AI planning: detecting and resolving conflicts in nonlinear plans. We sketch a theory of restricted conflict detection and resolution that subsumes conflict handling in classical nonlinear planners. By relaxing the restrictions, we develop a more general concept of conflicts suggesting practical and theoretical limitations of conflict handling in no...

In this paper we propose a core, lightweight ontology around the axis of a serious game for adolescents. The Player-Specific Conflict Handling Ontology (PSCHO) that we propose provides a formal representation of the conflict in the domain of serious games. In particular, it maps visually manifested affective cues and emotional stimuli from the serious game to conflict handling styles, and sugge...

background: c onflicts are inevitable among couples. in fact, couples show various levels of independence and correlation in common decisions they make and cooperation they have. high levels of conflicts would lead to family dissociation. the present study tried to evaluate the relation between sex education and on reducing the overall marital conflict score and its dimensions such as relations...