Couples' shared participation in novel and arousing activities and experienced relationship quality.

By Arthur Aron, Christina C. Norman, E. Aron, Colin McKenna, R. Heyman. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Of Memes and Marriage: Toward a Positive Relationship Science (2010, background): “…quality (Aron, Norman, Aron, McKenna, & Heyman, 2000, Studies 1 and 2), and experimental studies have established the direction of effects (e.g., Aron et al., 2000, Studies 3–5) and ruled out cooperation (Aron & Norman, 2005) and arousal as responsible for the effect (Lewandowski & Aron, 2005).”
Good News! Capitalizing on Positive Events in an Interpersonal Context (2010, background): “An example of research on an appetitive process in close relationships is Aron and colleagues’ work, showing that when couples participate in novel–arousing activities together they report increased relationship quality (Aron et al., 2000).”
Interest as the Missing Motivator in Self-Regulation (2005, background): “Although Aron et al. (2000) did not examine whether these couples spontaneously regulated interest within their relationship, they suggest that “.”
An upward spiral: Bidirectional associations between positive affect and positive aspects of close relationships across the life span (2015, background): “…both directions in the same study), and will be particularly useful for confirming that each factor directly influences the other and that PA and positive relationships are not just associated due to the influence of a third variable (see Aron et al., 2000 or Silvers & Haidt, 2008 for examples).”
Losing a self-expanding relationship: Implications for the self-concept. (2006, background): “…time, one’s long-term partner may still serve as an important source of self-expanding opportunities such as novel and challenging activities (e.g., Aron et al., 2000; Reissman et al., 1993) as well as providing a variety of resources supportive of one’s self-expansion in domains outside of the…”
When Good Brands Do Bad (2004, background): “05 trajectory for the sincere brand thus evokes the human relationship analogy of a close partnership or friendship (Price and Arnould 1999), whereas the exciting brand trajectory parallels more closely the trend of a short-lived fling (Aron et al. 2000).”
The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. (2001, background): “Play also builds enduring social resources: social play, with its shared amusement and smiles, builds lasting social bonds and attachments (Lee 1983; Simons et al. 1986; Aron et al. 2000), which can become the locus of subsequent social support.”
Insecure attachment predicts ambivalent social threat and reward perceptions in romantic relationships (2013, background): “Of course, a body of research has centered on relationship rewards, such as closeness and intimacy (e.g., Aron et al., 2000), but there are very few studies that examine the simultaneous operation of threats and rewards in romantic relationship contexts (e.g., Lewandowski & Ackerman, 2006;…”
An Expanded Self is a More Capable Self: The Association between Self-concept Size and Self-efficacy (2013, background): “Specifically, these results suggest that one way to bolster a client’s self-efficacy for tasks would be to have him or her experience self-expansion, potentially through self-expanding activities (e.g., Aron et al., 2000).”