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70
Citations
35445
World Ranking
2221
National Ranking
125

Overview

Caryl E. Rusbult was affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Throughout their career, Rusbult contributed to the academic community through research and publications. However, no specific papers, co-authors, or publication venues are available in the current data to detail their works or collaborations.

The available information does not list any main fields or subfields of study connected to Rusbult, nor does it specify particular topics they focused on in their academic work.

There is no record of book publications or awards received in the data provided.

The scientist is deceased, so the profile is presented in past tense to reflect their completed career.

Best Publications

  • The Investment Model Scale: Measuring commitment level, satisfaction level, quality of alternatives, and investment size

    Caryl E. Rusbult;John M. Martz;Christopher R. Agnew

  • Commitment and Satisfaction in Romantic Associations: A Test of the investment Model

    Caryl E Rusbult

  • A Longitudinal Test of the Investment Model: The Development (and Deterioration) of Satisfaction and Commitment in Heterosexual Involvements

    Caryl E. Rusbult

  • Impact of exchange variables on exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect: An integrative model of responses to declining job satisfaction.

    Caryl E. Rusbult;Dan Farrell;Glen Rogers;Arch G. Mainous

  • Development of prosocial, individualistic, and competitive orientations : Theory and preliminary evidence

    P.A.M. van Lange;W. Otten;E.M.N. de Bruin;J.A. Joireman

  • Interdependence, interaction, and relationships.

    Caryl E. Rusbult;Paul A. M. Van Lange

  • Accommodation processes in close relationships: Theory and preliminary empirical evidence.

    Caryl E. Rusbult;Julie Verette;Gregory A. Whitney;Linda F. Slovik

  • Commitment Processes in Close Relationships: An Interdependence Analysis

    Caryl E. Rusbult;Bram P. Buunk

  • Dealing with betrayal in close relationships: does commitment promote forgiveness?

    Eli J. Finkel;Caryl E. Rusbult;Madoka Kumashiro;Peggy A. Hannon

  • Cognitive Interdependence: Commitment and the Mental Representation of Close Relationships

    Christopher R. Agnew;Paul A. M. Van Lange;Caryl E. Rusbult;Christopher A. Langston

  • An Atlas of Interpersonal Situations

    Harold H. Kelley;John G. Holmes;Norbert L. Kerr;Harry T. Reis

  • Commitment, pro-relationship behavior, and trust in close relationships.

    Jennifer Wieselquist;Caryl E. Rusbult;Craig A. Foster;Christopher R. Agnew

  • Are Normal Narcissists Psychologically Healthy?: Self-Esteem Matters

    Constantine Sedikides;Erich A. Rudich;Aiden P. Gregg;Madoka Kumashiro

  • A Longitudinal Test of the Investment Model: The Impact on Job Satisfaction, Job Commitment, and Turnover of Variations in Rewards, Costs, Alternatives, and Investments

    Caryl E. Rusbult;Dan Farrell

  • Willingness to Sacrifice in Close Relationships

    P. A. M. Van Lange;C. E. Rusbult;S. M. Drigotas;X. B. Arriaga

  • Exchange variables as predictors of job satisfaction, job commitment, and turnover: The impact of rewards, costs, alternatives, and investments.

    Daniel Farrell;Caryl E. Rusbult

  • Exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect: Responses to dissatisfaction in romantic involvements.

    Caryl E. Rusbult;Isabella M. Zembrodt;Lawanna K. Gunn

  • Resisting Temptation: Devaluation of Alternative Partners as a Means of Maintaining Commitment in Close Relationships

    Dennis J. Johnson;Caryl E. Rusbult

  • Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration.

    Eli J. Finkel;C. Nathan DeWall;Erica B. Slotter;Megan Oaten

  • Remaining in an Abusive Relationship: An Investment Model Analysis of Nonvoluntary Dependence

    Caryl E. Rusbult;John M. Martz

  • Willingness to sacrifice in close relationships.

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  • Close partner as sculptor of the ideal self: Behavioral affirmation and the Michelangelo phenomenon.

    Stephen M. Drigotas;Caryl E. Rusbult;Jennifer Wieselquist;Sarah W. Whitton

  • Should I stay or should I go? A dependence model of breakups.

    Stephen M. Drigotas;Caryl E. Rusbult

  • Dealing with betrayal in close relationships: Does commitment promote forgiveness of betrayal?

    E. Finkel;C. Rusbult;Madoka Kumashiro;P. Hannon

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. M. Van Lange
Paul A. M. Van Lange Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Harry T. Reis
Harry T. Reis University of Rochester
Harold H. Kelley
Harold H. Kelley University of California, Los Angeles
Norbert L. Kerr
Norbert L. Kerr Michigan State University
John G. Holmes
John G. Holmes University of Waterloo
Eli J. Finkel
Eli J. Finkel Northwestern University
Catrin Finkenauer
Catrin Finkenauer Utrecht University
Christopher R. Agnew
Christopher R. Agnew Purdue University West Lafayette
W. Keith Campbell
W. Keith Campbell University of Georgia
Chester A. Insko
Chester A. Insko University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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