Close Relationships Laboratory 

Lab Publications

2011-2012

Pardo, Y., Weisfeld, C., Hill, E., & Slatcher, R. B. (in press). Machismo and marital satisfaction in Mexican
      American couples. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. [PDF]

Slatcher, R. B., & Trentacosta, C. J. (in press). Influences of parent and child negative emotionality on young 
      children's everyday behaviors. Emotion. [PDF]

Slatcher, R.B., & Robles, T.F. (in press). Preschoolers’ everyday conflict at home and diurnal cortisol patterns. 
      Health Psychology. [PDF] [SUPPL]

Tobin, E. T., Slatcher, R.B., & Robles, T.F. (in press). Family relationships and physical health. In M. Newman &
      N. Roberts (Eds.), Social Relationships and Health. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Slatcher, R. B., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2011). A naturalistic observation study of the links between parental depressive
      symptoms and preschoolers' behaviors in everyday life. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 444-448. [PDF]

Slatcher, R. B., Mehta, P.H., & Josephs, R.H. (2011). Testosterone and self-reported dominance interact to
      influence human mating behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 22, 39-44[PDF]

Ireland, M. E., Slatcher, R. B., Eastwick, P. W., Scissors, L. E., Finkel, E. J., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2011).
      Language style matching predicts relationship initiation and stability. Psychological Science, 22, 39-44. [PDF]

2009-2010

Slatcher, R. B., Robles, T. R., Repetti, R. L., & Fellows, M. D. (2010). Momentary work worries, marital 
       disclosure and salivary cortisol among parents of young children. Psychosomatic Medicine, 72, 887-896. [PDF]
 
Slatcher, R. B. (2010). Marital functioning and physical health: Implications for social and personality 
       psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 455-469. [PDF]

Slatcher, R. B. (2010). When Harry and Sally met Dick and Jane: Experimentally creating closeness between
       couples. Personal Relationships, 17, 279–297. [PDF]

Slatcher, R. B., & Vazire, S. (2009). Effects of global and contextualized personality on relationship
      satisfaction. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 624-633[PDF]

Slatcher, R. B. (2009). Language usage in relationships. In Harry T. Reis & Susan Sprecher (Eds.),
      Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (pp. 959-962). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [PDF]

2007-2008

Slatcher, R. B., Vazire, S., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). Am “I” more important than “We”? Couples’ word
      use in Instant Messages. Personal Relationships, 15, 407–424. [PDF]

Mehl, M. R., Vazire, S., Ramírez-Esparza, N., Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2007). Are women
      really more talkative than men? Science, 317, 82. [link]

Kacewicz, E., Slatcher, R. B., and Pennebaker, J. W. (2007). Expressive writing: An alternative to traditional
      methods. In L. L’Abate (Ed.), Handbook of Interventions to Promote Physical and Mental Health:
      Theory, Research and Practice (pp. 271-284). Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF]

Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2007). Emotional expression and health. In S. Ayers, A. Baum, C. McManus,
      S. Newman, K. Wallston, J. Weinman & R. West (Eds.). Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and

      Medicine (2nd Ed., pp. 84-86). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [PDF


Slatcher, R. B., Chung, C . K., Pennebaker, J. W., & Stone, L. D. (2007). Winning words: Individual
      differences in linguistic style among U.S. presidential and vice presidential candidates. Journal of Research

      in Personality, 41, 63-75 . [PDF]


2005-2006

Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2006). How do I love thee? Let me count the words: The social effects
      of expressive writing. Psychological Science, 17, 660-664. [PDF]

Pennebaker, J. W., Slatcher, R. B., & Chung, C. K. (2005). Linguistic markers of psychological state through
      media interviews: John Kerry and John Edwards in 2004, Al Gore in 2000.  Analyses of Social Issues
      and Public Policy, 5 , 197-204. [PDF]

Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2005). Emotional processing of traumatic events. In C. Cooper (Ed.),
      Handbook of Stress, Medicine and Health (2nd Ed., pp. 293-307). Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press. [PDF]


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