Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

SAGETRACK

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Personality and Social Psychology Review
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Gagné, F. M.
Right arrow Articles by Lydon, J. E.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Gagné, F. M.
Right arrow Articles by Lydon, J. E.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Reviews

Bias and Accuracy in Close Relationships: An Integrative Review

Faby M. Gagné

John E. Lydon

Department of Psychology, McGill University

Intimates typically are positively biased in their relationship evaluations. Given this fact, how can intimates regulate their esteem needs about their relationships and still function effectively, without risking later regret and disappointment? We address this issue by first reviewing work showing that because bias and accuracy are independent, they can co-exist. We next show how bias and accuracy are subject to different evaluative motives, relationship evaluations, and situations. It is argued that the pursuit of important goals is a time when people are motivated to feel good about their relationships. This is a time when relationship judgments are positively biased and relatively inaccurate. However, important choice points in the relationship are times when people are motivated to both accurately understand their relationships and to feel good about their relationships. These dual needs can be simultaneously met by becoming more accurate in epistemic-related relationship judgments while being more positively biased in esteem-related relationship judgments.

Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, 322-338 (2004)
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_1
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol BullHome page
J. Forster, K. Epstude, and A. Ozelsel
Why Love Has Wings and Sex Has Not: How Reminders of Love and Sex Influence Creative and Analytic Thinking
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, November 1, 2009; 35(11): 1479 - 1491.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol BullHome page
A. H. Eagly, P. W. Eastwick, and M. Johannesen-Schmidt
Possible Selves in Marital Roles: The Impact of the Anticipated Division of Labor on the Mate Preferences of Women and Men
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, April 1, 2009; 35(4): 403 - 414.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol BullHome page
N. Epley and E. Whitchurch
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Enhancement in Self-Recognition
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, September 1, 2008; 34(9): 1159 - 1170.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol RevHome page
C. K. W. De Dreu, B. A. Nijstad, and D. van Knippenberg
Motivated Information Processing in Group Judgment and Decision Making
Personality and Social Psychology Review, February 1, 2008; 12(1): 22 - 49.
[Abstract] [PDF]