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What the research on couples reports, and where the evidence thins out.
Longhand Press publishes long-form summaries of peer-reviewed work on communication between partners. Every article names the researchers, describes how the study was run, and states the methodological objections alongside the findings rather than after them.
Written material only. No consultations, no assessments, no personalised guidance.
The library
Four articles, updated when the underlying literature changes.
- Method The four communication behaviours, and the cross-validation problem Gottman and Levenson's observational categories are widely cited. The prediction accuracy attached to them has been contested in the peer-reviewed literature since 2001.
- Construct Perceived partner responsiveness as a research variable Reis and colleagues built a measurable construct out of feeling understood. What it predicts, and why self-report designs limit the conclusions.
- History Adult attachment: from four categories to two dimensions The 1987 newspaper questionnaire that started the field, and the taxometric work that argued the categories were never really categories.
- Evidence What 43 longitudinal datasets showed about prediction A 2020 machine-learning analysis pooled decades of couples research. The most useful result was how much variance stayed unexplained.
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How this is made
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What does Longhand Press publish?
Long-form written summaries of peer-reviewed research on communication between partners — observational coding studies, self-report survey work, longitudinal designs, and meta-analyses. Each article states who conducted the research, how the sample was drawn, and which conclusions the design does not support.
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