Accuracy and bias in the perception of the partner in a close relationship

By David A. Kenny, L. Acitelli. 2001

242 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1910425de0a8b57b8caaecf15be68ac5763eb9aa

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In Applied Psychology

1. Catrin Finkenauer

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Beth A. Latshaw
2. Catrin Finkenauer
3. Deniz Yucel

In Social Psychology

1. Beth A. Latshaw
2. R. Iafrate
3. Anna Bertoni
4. Catrin Finkenauer
5. Miriam Parise
6. S. Donato
7. Deniz Yucel
8. Guy Bodenmann

Citations in the corpus

• Dyadic coping responses and partners’ perceptions for couple satisfaction (2015, background): “Taken together, these findings are in line with research demonstrating that accuracy and bias coexist in couples’ perceptions (Gagné & Lydon, 2004; Kenny & Acitelli, 2001).”
• Spillover and Crossover Effects of Work-Family Conflict among Married and Cohabiting Couples (2018, background): “This leads to a type of bias Kenny and Acitelli (2001) call “assumedsimilarity bias,” where one assumes another’s experience is similar to one’s own experience.”