CEDAR Lab

New Paper about Contextual Approaches to Social Class

by | Oct 31, 2024 | Uncategorized

We have a paper in press at the Journal of Social Issues with Nicole Stephens and Sarah Townsend about the value of taking a contextual approach to understanding social class. We describe what it means to take this kind of approach, and how it might yield new insights on the psychology of social class.

Stephens, N. M., Emery, L. F., & Townsend, S. S. M. (in press). Taking a social-class-in-context perspective on the psychology of social class. Journal of Social Issues.

New Paper about Attachment and Couple Identity Clarity

by | Oct 5, 2024 | Uncategorized

We have a new paper in press at EJSP with Erica Slotter, Alexis Audigier, and Wendi Gardner about attachment avoidance and couple identity clarity. People who are high on attachment avoidance struggle to maintain a clear sense of who they and their partner are as a couple, in part because they are less close with their partners and because their partners do not accurately know them.

Slotter, E. B., Emery, L. F., Audigier, A., & Gardner, W. L. (2024). Making sense of “us”: Mechanisms linking attachment avoidance and couple identity clarity. European Journal of Social Psychology. Advance online publication.

New Paper about Attachment and Loss of Self

by | Jun 4, 2024 | Uncategorized

We have a new paper in press at JPSP with Erin Hughes, Emma McGorray, Wendi Gardner, and Eli Finkel. We find that people high on attachment avoidance perceive change due to their close relationships as losing parts of themselves, which contributes to lower commitment to their relationship. Furthermore, we find a disparity in perceptions, such that external metrics (including their own behavior and third-party coders) do not detect loss of self among avoidant people.

Hughes, E. K., Emery, L. F., McGorray, E. L., Gardner, W. L., & Finkel, E. J. (in press). The delusion of the disappearing self? Attachment avoidance and the experience of externally invisible self-loss in romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Download]

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