ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention

Positivity Resonance and Its Association with Synchronous Nonverbal Affiliative Behaviors and Perceived Lovingness in Long-Term Married Couples

Virtual

Oral · Personality/Emotion Psychology

We examined whether Positivity Resonance (PosRes) would be associated with indices of behavioral affiliation and subjective ratings of perceived love from partners of heterosexual couples engaged in a marital conflict conversation. PosRes was associated with moment-to-moment and average engagement of affiliative cues and correlated with wife perception of husband lovingness.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Jocelyn LaiSpeaker
    University of California, Irvine
  • Marcela OteroDiscussant
    VA Palo Alto Health Care System
  • Marcela OteroDiscussant
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Marcela OteroDiscussant
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Kuan-Hua ChenDiscussant
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Jenna WellsDiscussant
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Barbara FredricksonDiscussant
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill