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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

John M. Gottman is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within the social sciences, including sociology and political science, reproductive medicine, social psychology, and health. The scientist has contributed to topics such as marriage and sexual relationships, reproductive health and technologies, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, intimate partner and family violence, and stalking, cyberstalking, and harassment.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John M. Gottman include:

  • A Pilot Study Examining the Effectiveness of Gottman Method Couples Therapy Over Treatment-as-Usual Approaches for Treating Couples Dealing with Infidelity, 2023, The Family Journal
  • Senior Scientist, 2021, Academia Letters
  • A Dyadic Analysis of the Relationships Between Antisocial and Borderline Personality and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration, 2024, Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Frequent co-authors associated with Gottman's work include:

  • Carrie Cole
  • Julie S. Gottman
  • Taylor J. Irvine
  • Paul R. Peluso
  • Kyle Benson

The scientist's work has been published in venues such as:

  • The Family Journal
  • Academia Letters
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence

John M. Gottman has received recognition as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1999.

Best Publications

  • Observing Interaction: An Introduction to Sequential Analysis

    Roger Bakeman;John Mordechai Gottman

  • Parental meta-emotion philosophy and the emotional life of families: Theoretical models and preliminary data.

    John M. Gottman;Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Carole Hooven

  • Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions

    John M. Gottman;James Coan;Sybil Carrere;Catherine Swanson

  • Meta-Emotion: How Families Communicate Emotionally

    John Mordechai Gottman;Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Carole Hooven

  • What predicts divorce? The relationship between marital processes and marital outcomes.

    John Mordechai Gottman

  • Marital Interaction: Experimental Investigations

    John Mordechai Gottman

  • Marital interaction and satisfaction: a longitudinal view.

    John M. Gottman;Lowell J. Krokoff

  • Marital interaction: physiological linkage and affective exchange.

    Robert W. Levenson;John M. Gottman

  • Marital processes predictive of later dissolution: behavior, physiology, and health.

    John M. Gottman;Robert W. Levenson

  • Emotional behavior in long-term marriage.

    Laura L. Carstensen;John M. Gottman;Robert W. Levenson

  • Effects of Marital Discord on Young Children's Peer Interaction and Health

    John M. Gottman;Lynn Fainsilber Katz

  • Design and analysis of time-series experiments

    Gene V. Glass;Victor L. Willson;John Mordechai Gottman

  • How Children Become Friends.

    John Mordechai Gottman

  • Power and violence: the relation between communication patterns, power discrepancies, and domestic violence.

    Julia C. Babcock;Jennifer Waltz;Neil S. Jacobson;John M. Gottman

  • Patterns of marital conflict predict children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors.

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;John M. Gottman

  • The Marriage Clinic: A Scientifically Based Marital Therapy

    John Mordechai Gottman

  • The topography of marital conflict: A sequential analysis of verbal and nonverbal behavior.

    John Gottman;Howard Markman;Cliff Notarius

  • Long-term marriage : age, gender, and satisfaction

    Robert W. Levenson;Laura L. Carstensen;John M. Gottman

  • The relationship between heart rate reactivity, emotionally aggressive behavior, and general violence in batterers.

    John M. Gottman;Neil S. Jacobson;Regina H. Rushe;Joann Wu Shortt

  • Decade Review: Observing Marital Interaction

    John M. Gottman;Clifford I. Notarius

  • The Development of Children's Friendships

    Steven R. Asher;John Mordechai Gottman

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynn Fainsilber Katz
Lynn Fainsilber Katz University of Washington
Robert W. Levenson
Robert W. Levenson University of California, Berkeley
Neil S. Jacobson
Neil S. Jacobson University of Washington
Roger Bakeman
Roger Bakeman Georgia State University
Julia C. Babcock
Julia C. Babcock University of Houston
James A. Coan
James A. Coan University of Virginia
Michael J. Guralnick
Michael J. Guralnick University of Washington
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Mary A. Hammond
Mary A. Hammond University of Washington
Joann Wu Shortt
Joann Wu Shortt National Institutes of Health

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