How effectively can people predict their romantic partners' commitment to them? Not very well at all, according to new research. Here's what we get wrong—and why, writes ocklenBLOG
A new study investigated whether people can predict that their partner thinks about ending the relationship.People project their own concerns about relationship dissolution onto their partner.are one of the most important aspects of life for many people, but many relationships are not forever. People want to dissolve a romantic relationship for many different reasons.
In the first experiment, volunteers had to answer several different questions about perceived partner dissolution considerations, such as:More and more I believe it comes to my partner’s mind that he/she should break up with me.The volunteers also had to answer questions about their partner’s commitment to the relationship, as well as questions about their own dissolution considerations and their own commitment to the relationship.
In a second experiment, the scientist then gathered similar data from 108 couples to have objective data from both people in a relationship. In this experiment, an interesting result came out: In relationships in which one partner often thought about breaking up, the other partner also indicated that her/she predicted higher perceived partner dissolution considerations. Thus, to some extent, people can predict that their partner wants to end the romantic relationship.
Interestingly, however, volunteers generally underestimated how often their partner thought about ending the relationship. Thus, partners naturally thought more often about ending the relationship than volunteers thought. Instead, they projected their own dissolution consideration onto their partners, even if they were not an accurate reflection of what the partner thought. This finding was also replicated in a third experiment with an independent cohort of volunteers, showing it is likely statistically robust. This association was influenced by
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