So, can you explain what you found?īenjamin Karney: Sure. And in this study, you looked at how that behavior is impacted based a bit impacts the couple's relationship satisfaction based on their income levels. So, you're a co-author of a study that was recently published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that examined what's known as “demand withdraw behavior” and so to summarize that, that means one partner in a relationship asks the other to change something and the partner who's asked to make that change basically shuts down and withdraws.
Kaitlin Luna: Happy to have you here today. Karney.īenjamin Karney: Oh, thanks for having me.
Karney is a leading scholar of social relationships and marriage, who studies change and stability in intimate relationships, with a particular emphasis on minority populations, including low-income couples and military families. Benjamin Karney, a professor of social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and co-director of the UCLA Marriage Lab.
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