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- Title
THE CASE FOR STUDYING IMPLICIT SOCIAL COGNITION IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS.
- Authors
Faure, Ruddy; McNulty, James K.; Hicks, Lindsey L.; Righetti, Francesca
- Abstract
This review offers close relationships as a fruitful avenue to address longlasting questions and current controversies in implicit social cognition research. Close relationships provide a unique opportunity to study strong attitudes that are formed and updated through ongoing contact with significant others and appear to have important downstream consequences. Therefore, close relationship contexts enable researchers to apply finegrained, dyadic, longitudinal methodologies to provide unique insights regarding whether and how automatic attitudes relate to personal experience, change meaningfully and reliably over time, and predict consequential judgments and behaviors. Further, given that close relationships are critical to people's well-being and health, applying implicit social cognition theories to close relationships may also offer practical benefits regarding real-world issues related to relationship decay. In this regard, we provide guidance for future research by highlighting how continuing to refine our understanding of implicit social cognition in close relationships can inform interventions and reliably benefit society
- Subjects
SOCIAL perception; SOCIAL cognitive theory; SOCIAL sciences education; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Social Cognition, 2020, Vol 38, pS98
- ISSN
0278-016X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/soco.2020.38.supp.s98