Thought and action : connecting attributions to behaviors in married couples' interactions / Valerie Manusov -- Self-evaluation motives in close relationships : a model of global enhancement and specific verification / Lisa A. Neff and Benjamin R. Karney -- Competition in romantic relationships : do partners build niches? / Steven R.H. Beach [and others] -- Cognition and communication during marital conflict : how alcohol affects subjective coding of interaction in aggressive and nonaggressive couples / Alan Sillars [and others] -- Observational "windows" to intimacy processes in marriage / Linda J. Roberts and Danielle R. Greenberg -- Bases for giving benefits in marriage : What is an ideal? What is realistic? What really happens / Margaret S. Clark, Steven Graham, and Nancy Grote -- Shared participation in self-expanding activities : positive effects on experienced marital quality / Arthur Aron [and others] -- Coping with disappointment in marriage : when partners' standards are unmet / Anita L. Vangelisti and Alicia L. Alexander -- On empathic accuracy and husbands' abusiveness : the "overattribution bias" / William E. Schweinle and William Ickes -- The war of the roses : an interdependence analysis of betrayal and forgiveness / Caryl E. Rusbult [and others] -- Demand-withdraw communicaton during couple conflict : a review and analysis / Kathleen A. Eldridge and Andrew Christensen -- Approaches to the study of power in violent and nonviolent marriages, and in gay male and lesbian cohabiting relationships / John M. Gottman [and others] -- The communication of couples in violent and nonviolent relationships : temporal associations with own and partners' anxiety/arousal and behavior / Patricia Noller and Nigel D. Roberts -- Adult attachment, the transition to parenthood, and marital well-being / Jeffry A. Simpson [and others] -- Allocation and performance of household tasks : a comparison of new parents and childless couples / Judith A. Feeney and Patricia Noller -- Care giving and its influence on marital interactions between older spouses / Helen E. Edwards and Patricia Noller -- Risk factors, risk processes, and the longitudinal course of newlywed marriage / Lisa B. Story, Alexia D. Rothman, and Thomas N. Bradbury -- Does working at a relationship work? Relationship self-regulation and relationship outcomes / W. Kim Halford [and others].