4A Study of Social Decentering, Relationship-Specific Social Decentering (RSSD), and the Escalation and De-escalation of Relationships

A number of relationships between social decentering, relationship-specific social decentering (RSSD), relationship escalation, and relationship de-escalation were advanced in Chapter 3. In this chapter, two studies are presented that were conducted to examine some of those relationships. The first study focused on escalating relationships and the second study focused on de-escalating or terminated relationships. Both studies follow a similar design using cross-sex partners as participants. Partners came to the study center at the same time and then individually completed questionnaires about themselves and their ...

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