The Gottmans are one of the few pop science social psychologists that I find useful for one’s day to day relationships. Partially because their work is informed by (but not heavily reliant on) theoretical frameworks, they strike the right balance of informed and practical. For those who don’t know, most of their work is based on years of longitudinal observations of couples in the lab, recording and then coding all manner of behaviors. From this data they’ve codified a series of interventions and theories to […]