| Popis: |
Previous studies on negative relationship outcomes, such as relationship dissatisfaction, sometimes focus on couple-level predictors, such as relationship quality. Less research has explored links between relationship outcomes and individual-level predictors. One couple-level factor that has been found to hinder relationship success is the presence of disagreement and conflict in the relationship. This proposed research aims to test whether a basic individual difference in how people perceive disagreements could predict relationship outcomes. Research on the bias blind spot and naïve realism shows that individuals perceive others as much more susceptible to a range of cognitive and motivational biases than themselves. Especially in the case of disagreements, people perceive themselves as objective, and others as biased. This tendency to see those who disagree with oneself as biased and wrong has been shown to trigger negative interpersonal judgments and conflictual responding. This raises the question of whether some people are particularly prone to this tendency and, if so, whether this might harm their relationships. I propose to examine this hypothesis in a series of studies that employ the newly developed and validated Objectivism Scale, which measures the extent to which people believe that there is an objective reality, that they see it, and that those who disagree with them are biased and wrong. |
