Library on Governance in Social-Ecological Systems

Mathematics of Marital Conflict

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Model Description

This discrete time model represents a coupled system as seen through talk turns in a conversation between a wife and husband where each exerts influence dynamically on the other. Cook et al. (1995) develop this entirely social model based on empirical observations of marital conflict in the Gottman Love Lab, a University of Washington social laboratory studying marital conflict and resolution.  The authors developed this model, then confirmed the model through turn-wise application of the model to several fifteen minute conversations between married couples.  Many of the parameters in this model are person and situation specific.

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