Predicting relationship breakups with a word-association task
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 21:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Here's a way to tell a romantic relationship is going to fall apart: find out what people really think about their partners. The researchers in a new study used a so-called implicit task, which shows how people automatically respond to words -- in this case, whether they find it easier to link words referring to their partner to words with pleasant or unpleasant meanings.