Sandra Murray and Colleagues (2003) Asked Married Couples to Report

Sandra Murray and colleagues (2003) asked married couples to report on their relationships every day for 21 days and then examined how the events of one day were associated with each partner's feelings and behaviors on subsequent days. What best describes the findings of this study?

A) Spouses who capitalized on their successes behaved especially constructively in the days that followed.
B) Spouses who believed that they were highly regarded by their partners tended to behave especially constructively in the days that followed a serious conflict.
C) Spouses who doubted their partners' feelings for them tended to initiate further arguments in the days that followed a serious conflict.
D) No clear patterns distinguished spouses that had positive beliefs from spouses that had negative beliefs.

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