Concept information
Preferred term
cognitive processes in relationships
Definition
- How people think about themselves, their partners, and their relationships has a major influence on how they approach other people, how they feel about their relationship, and how they act toward their partners. There are a variety of methods and constructs that are included under the umbrella term relationship cognition. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Relationships; Cognitive Processes in Relationships]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- accounts (psychology)
- approach and avoidance orientations
- attribution processes in relationships
- beliefs about relationships
- beliefs, destiny versus growth
- comparison levels
- couple identity
- effects of social comparison on relationships
- empathic accuracy and inaccuracy
- expectations about marriage
- expectations about relationships
- expectation states theory and relationships
- fairness in relationships
- first impressions
- gain-loss theory of attraction
- gender-role attitudes
- gender stereotypes
- idealization
- ideals about relationships
- information seeking
- language usage in relationships
- memories and relationships
- misattribution
- mood and relationships
- norm of reciprocity
- norms about relationships
- perspective taking
- physical attractiveness stereotype
- principle of lesser interest
- prototype approach to love
- romanticism
- rules of relationships
- satisfaction in relationships
- security in relationships
- self-evaluation maintenance model
- self-expansion model
- self-regulation in relationships
- transference
- unconditional positive regard
- understanding (cognition)
- validation in relationships
- values and relationships
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/cognitive_processes_in_relationships
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