{"id":43,"date":"2017-06-05T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/murrayrelationshipslab\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:42:21","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/murrayrelationshipslab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coping with Uncertain\/Dangerous Social Worlds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Research on the social-safety system examines how people keep themselves feeling safe in social connection when it is hard to trust in the world around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current projects:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>How do national elections, rising political sectarianism, disease\/pathogens, gender stereotypes, and unpredictable childhoods variously affect how people keep themselves feeling safe in personal, family, and collective (e.g., community, country) relationships?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Murray, S. L., McNulty, J., Xia, J., Lamarche, V., Seery, M. D., Ward, D., Griffin, D. W., Hicks, L, Jung, H. Y. (2023). Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems. <em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/em>, <em>125<\/em>(3), 519\u2013547. <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/doi\/10.1037\/pspi0000420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/pspi0000420<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S.L., Xia, J., Lamarche, V. L., Seery, M. D., McNulty, J., Griffin, D. W., Ward, D., Jung, H. Y., Hicks, L., &amp; Dubois, D. (2023). A moth to a flame? Fulfilling connectedness needs through romantic relationships protects conspiracy theorists against COVID-19 misinformation. <em>Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology<\/em>, 4, 100111. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cresp.2023.100111\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cresp.2023.100111<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., McNulty, J., Ward, D. E., Griffin, D. W., &amp; Hicks, L. (2023). Sensitizing the behavioral-immune system: The power of social pain. <em>Social Psychological and Personality Science<\/em>, <em>14(4)<\/em>, 371\u2013380. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/19485506221107741\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/19485506221107741<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coping with Romantic Relationship Risk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research on the risk-regulation system examines how uncertainty about one\u2019s value as a person affects affect, cognition, and behavior in romantic and family relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current projects:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>How does parent self-esteem affect students\u2019 capacity to thrive and succeed in college? Can using distanced (vs. immersed) language make it easier for low self-esteem people to handle conflict? Does feeling negatively stereotyped by women make it harder for men to believe in their capacity to be good romantic partners?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Murray, S. L., &amp; Pascuzzi, G. (2024). Pursuing safety in social connection: A flexibly fluid perspective on risk-regulation in relationships. <em>Annual Review of Psychology, 75<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-psych-011123-024815\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-psych-011123-024815<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wood, J. V., Forest, A. L., Frisen, J., Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., &amp; McNulty, J. K. (2024). Self-esteem and romantic relationship quality. <em>Nature Reviews<\/em>, <em>3<\/em>, 27-41. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s44159-023-00247-z\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s44159-023-00247-z<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coping with Conflicting Impulses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research on automatic and controlled processes examines how romantic partners respond to conflicting attitudinal\/behavioral impulses in risky situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current projects:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>How do automatic partner attitudes affect partners\u2019 physiological responses when they are discussing conflicts? Can more positive automatic partner attitudes ease relationship transitions, such as the transition to parenthood?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Murray, S. L., Seery, M.D., Lamarche, V., Kondrak, C., &amp; Gomillion, S.&nbsp; (2019). Implicitly imprinting the past on the present:&nbsp; Automatic partner attitudes and the transition to parenthood.&nbsp; <em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/em>, <em>116<\/em>, 69-100. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/pspi0000143\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1037\/pspi0000143<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., Gomillion, S., Holmes, J. G., &amp; Harris, B. 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