Mania and marriage: The relationship between biological and behavioral variables

Marital Quality: A Review of the Seventies

“…Apparently, Bernard's (1972:4) musing has had some real effect upon researchers, who now expect differences by sex of respondent to reflect continuing differences in the socialization of American males and females: "There is by now a very considerate body of well-authenticated research to show that there really are two marriages in every union and that they do not always coincide." The seventies saw the appearance of some relatively new topics for marital research-e.g., the relationships between biochemical events, such as manicdepressive psychosis and mutual, nonverbal, subconscious, biochemical communication between intimate individuals (Ludwig and Ables, 1974). Behavioral assessments of spouses through both observational techniques and self-reportings of self and spousal behavior also increased during the 1970s.…”