Approach motivation and the expansion of self in close relationships

By Brent A. Mattingly, Kevin P. McIntyre, Gary W. Lewandowski. 2012

159 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a45175a59e399216f82f5f3bcf78500fcec6163f

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In Applied Psychology

1. Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr.
2. Claudio Alvarez
3. Brent A. Mattingly
4. Susan Fournier

In Social Psychology

1. Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr.
2. Claudio Alvarez
3. Brent A. Mattingly
4. Susan Fournier

Citations in the corpus

• Relating badly to brands (2013, background): “Mattingly et al. (2012) in fact present a case that avoidance motivation is unrelated to self-expansion.”
• The power of one: benefits of individual self-expansion (2013, background): “…model is generally framed in the context of romantic relationships (e.g. Aron et al., 1995; Lewandowski & Bizzoco, 2007; Lewandowski et al., 2006; Mattingly et al., 2012), the results of the present study may generalize to a relational context and help explain why self-expanding activities are…”