“…Instead, the literature has identified four moderating factors suggesting that knowing one's partner enhances relationship well-being when knowledge is (a) concrete, (b) relationship relevant, (c) concerns positive information, and when it (d) emerges in long relationships. In addition to these moderators that are directly related to the type of knowledge, the literature has identified gender as a factor affecting the link between knowledge and relational well-being in that women's knowledge showed stronger links with marital well-being (Acitelli, Douvan, & Veroff, 1993;Murstein & Beck, 1972). To examine this possibility, we investigate whether gender modulates the link between knowledge and relational well-being.…”