[paper] Beyond Good or Bad: The Four Evaluative Quadrants of Relationships

[Iris K. Schneider]

Hi all, 

Francesca Righetti, Mirna Ðurić, and I published a theoretical paper on different relationship evaluations, including ambivalence, that might be of interest. 

Below is the abstract - the paper is open access here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10888683241302247

Cheers, 

Iris. 

Traditionally, theoretical and empirical accounts have considered relationship evaluations along one single dimension

ranging from positive to negative. However, in this theoretical work, we stress the importance of using a bi-dimensional

conceptualization of relationship evaluations in which positive and negative dimensions can vary independently. In doing so,

we describe the four evaluative quadrants experienced in relationships and outline their unique interpersonal processes and

outcomes, both from the perspective of the person experiencing them (i.e., actor effects) and from the perspective of the

recipient of such evaluations (i.e., partner effects) and considering both explicit (i.e., deliberative) and implicit (i.e., automatic)

processes. We also provide a framework that predicts how relationship properties are likely to influence relationships

evaluations, and we introduce the Trajectories of Relationship Evaluation Model (TREM) that describes changes in evaluations

over time and the factors that influence such changes.