Document Type
Research Paper
Abstract
The catastrophe theory of attitudes (Harton & Latane, 1997; Latane & Nowak, I 994) predicts that important attitudes will elicit extreme reactions, and that, when they do change, they will change more drastically than will unimportant attitudes. One hundred thirty-five college students rated how satisfied they would be in an important (romantic) or unimportant (acquaintance) relationship after reading each of nine relationship partner behaviors. Students did not report more extreme reactions to events in important versus unimportant relationships.
Publication Date
1999
Journal Title
Conference Proceedings: Undergraduate Social Science Research Conference
Volume
3
Issue
1
First Page
121
Last Page
123
Copyright
©1999 by the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Publisher
University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Recommended Citation
Thoren, DeeDee; Ingram, Stephanie; Sibold, Kristen; and Harton, Helen C.
(1999)
"Changes in Relationship Satisfaction in Important and Unimportant Relationships,"
Conference Proceedings: Undergraduate Social Science Research Conference: Vol. 3:
Iss.
1, Article 21.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/csbsproceedings/vol3/iss1/21
