#1151 William Chopik: Partner Dynamics and Relationship Satisfaction
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. William Chopic. He is associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. He's a social personality psychologist interested in how relationships and the people in them change over time and across situations. And today we're going to talk about relationship science. dynamics between partners and health outcomes associated with them, single hood and marriage. And also attachment. So, Doctor Chopic, welcome to the show to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone.
Yeah, pleasure as well. Nice to be here. So let me ask you first, what is relationship science? What kinds of topics and questions does it explore? Uh, so I would define it as the scientific study of social connection. Uh so uh it's such a dangerous question. Like what does it study? What doesn't it study? Um, because it's so much, it's between You know, how you meet people for the first time, why you're attracted to them.
Um how to form a relationship, how to have a sexual or romantic relationships, how to keep it going, what happens when it ends. What happens if you don't want it? What happens if you really want it? Um Kind of how Approaches to relationships have changed over time or across countries, across different cultural settings, within different subgroups of the population. So
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