A bird locked in a cage: Hmong young women’s lives after marriage in northern Vietnam.
Introduction: unmarried and unknown: urban men and women in the low countries since the early modern period
This essay introduces a special issue on The Lure of the City that examines the attraction of towns to unmarried men and women in the Low Countries during the early modern period and the nineteenth century. The issue has the relation between singles and cities as its main focus. Singles were present in disproportionately large numbers in urban area...
Demand behavior and empathic accuracy in observed conflict interactions in couples
The study reported in this research note sought to extend the research on motivated empathic accuracy by exploring whether intimate partners who are highly motivated to induce change in their partner during conflicts will be more empathically accurate than partners who are less motivated. In a laboratory experiment, the partners within 26 cohabitin...
The role of cognitive and affective empathy in spouses' support interactions: an observational study
The present study examined how support providers' empathic dispositions (dispositional perspective taking, empathic concern, and personal distress) as well as their situational empathic reactions (interaction-based perspective taking, empathic concern, and personal distress) relate to the provision of spousal support during observed support interac...
Empathic accuracy and observed demand behavior in couples
Solving stable matching problems using answer set programming
Since the introduction of the stable marriage problem (SMP) by Gale and Shapley (1962), several variants and extensions have been investigated. While this variety is useful to widen the application potential, each variant requires a new algorithm for finding the stable matchings. To address this issue, we propose an encoding of the SMP using answer...
A pronoun analysis of couples' support transactions
The present study collected data about couples' level of relationship quality and their usage of pronouns that express we-ness or separateness in the context of support interactions. The sample consisted of 48 couples in a long-term relationship who provided questionnaire data and participated in two videotaped social support interaction tasks. Cou...
Why Would She? Polygyny and Women's Welfare in Ghana
Faire reconnaître sa vulnérabilité : quand les épouses zarma (Niger) quittent le foyer conjugal
Au Niger, dans la société zarma, quand une famille donne sa fille en mariage, elle ne l’abandonne pas pour autant à son sort car, si le mariage lui fait acquérir un prestige social, il la rend aussi vulnérable : elle vit désormais dans la famille de son époux, sous la responsabilité et l’autorité de celle-ci, mais y reste considérée comme une ‘étra...
Faire reconnaître sa vulnérabilité : quand les épouses zarma (Niger) quittent le foyer conjugal
Au Niger, dans la société zarma, quand une famille donne sa fille en mariage, elle ne l’abandonne pas pour autant à son sort car, si le mariage lui fait acquérir un prestige social, il la rend aussi vulnérable : elle vit désormais dans la famille de son époux, sous la responsabilité et l’autorité de celle-ci, mais y reste considérée comme une ‘étra...
