Let’s Get Serious: Communicating Commitment in Romantic Relationship Formation

Are men or women more likely to confess love first in romantic relationships? And how do men and women feel when their partners say “I love you”? An evolutionary– economics perspective contends that women and men incur different potential costs and gain different potential benefits from confessing l...

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Main Authors: ACKERMAN, Joshua M., GRISKEVICIUS, Vladas, LI, Norman P.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-23812019-10-22T07:00:36Z Let’s Get Serious: Communicating Commitment in Romantic Relationship Formation ACKERMAN, Joshua M. GRISKEVICIUS, Vladas LI, Norman P. Are men or women more likely to confess love first in romantic relationships? And how do men and women feel when their partners say “I love you”? An evolutionary– economics perspective contends that women and men incur different potential costs and gain different potential benefits from confessing love. Across 6 studies testing current and former romantic relationships, we found that although people think that women are the first to confess love and feel happier when they receive such confessions, it is actually men who confess love first and feel happier when receiving confessions. Consistent with predictions from our model, additional studies have shown that men’s and women’s reactions to love confessions differ in important ways depending on whether the couple has engaged in sexual activity. These studies have demonstrated that saying and hearing “I love you” has different meanings depending on who is doing the confessing and when the confession is being made. Beyond romantic relationships, an evolutionary–economics perspective suggests that displays of commitment in other types of relationships—and reactions to these displays—will be influenced by specific, functional biases. 2011-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1125 info:doi/10.1037/a0022412 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2381/viewcontent/AckermanGriskeviciusLi2011.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University bias evolution love romantic relationships signaling economics Personality and Social Contexts Social Psychology
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topic bias
evolution
love
romantic relationships
signaling
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Personality and Social Contexts
Social Psychology
spellingShingle bias
evolution
love
romantic relationships
signaling
economics
Personality and Social Contexts
Social Psychology
ACKERMAN, Joshua M.
GRISKEVICIUS, Vladas
LI, Norman P.
Let’s Get Serious: Communicating Commitment in Romantic Relationship Formation
description Are men or women more likely to confess love first in romantic relationships? And how do men and women feel when their partners say “I love you”? An evolutionary– economics perspective contends that women and men incur different potential costs and gain different potential benefits from confessing love. Across 6 studies testing current and former romantic relationships, we found that although people think that women are the first to confess love and feel happier when they receive such confessions, it is actually men who confess love first and feel happier when receiving confessions. Consistent with predictions from our model, additional studies have shown that men’s and women’s reactions to love confessions differ in important ways depending on whether the couple has engaged in sexual activity. These studies have demonstrated that saying and hearing “I love you” has different meanings depending on who is doing the confessing and when the confession is being made. Beyond romantic relationships, an evolutionary–economics perspective suggests that displays of commitment in other types of relationships—and reactions to these displays—will be influenced by specific, functional biases.
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author ACKERMAN, Joshua M.
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title Let’s Get Serious: Communicating Commitment in Romantic Relationship Formation
title_short Let’s Get Serious: Communicating Commitment in Romantic Relationship Formation
title_full Let’s Get Serious: Communicating Commitment in Romantic Relationship Formation
title_fullStr Let’s Get Serious: Communicating Commitment in Romantic Relationship Formation
title_full_unstemmed Let’s Get Serious: Communicating Commitment in Romantic Relationship Formation
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2011
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1125
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2381/viewcontent/AckermanGriskeviciusLi2011.pdf
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