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Journal Publications
Garanzini, S., Yee, A., Gottman, J. M., Gottman, J. S., Cole, C., Preciado, M., Jasculca, C., (October 2017), Results of Gottman Method Couples Therapy With Gay and Lesbian Couples, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy;
Gottman, John M. and Schwartz-Gottman, Julie. (March 2017) The Natural Principles of Love, Journal of Family Theory and Review;
Shapiro, Alyson F., Gottman, John M., Fink, Brandi C (December 2015) Short-Term Change in Couples’ Conflict Following a Transition to Parenthood Intervention, American Psychological Association;
De Haan-Rietdijk, Silvia, Gottman, John M., Bergeman, Cindy S., Hamaker, Ellen L. (August 5, 2014) Get Over It! A Multilevel Threshold Autoregressive Model for State-Dependent Affect Regulation , Psychometrika;
Cleary Bradley, R., Drummey, K., Gottman, J.M., Gottman, J.S. (June 2014), Treating Couples Who Mutually Exhibit Violence or Aggression: Reducing Behaviors that Show a Susceptibility for Violence, Journal of Family Violence;
Babcock, J. C., Gottman, J. M., Ryan, K. D. and Gottman, J. S. (2013), A component analysis of a brief psycho-educational couples’ workshop: one-year follow-up results. Journal of Family Therapy, 35: 252–280. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12017;
Babcock, J., Gottman, J., Ryan, K., Gottman, J. (August 2013) ‘Brief Marital Interventions‘ and ‘CONSORT Flow Diagram‘ , Journal of Family Therapy;
Bradley, Renay P. Cleary, Friend, Daniel J. and Gottman, John M. (2011) ‘Supporting Healthy Relationships in Low-Income, Violent Couples: Reducing Conflict and Strengthening Relationship Skills and Satisfaction‘, Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 10:2, 97-116;
Friend, D., Cleary Bradley, R., Thatcher, R., and Gottman, J., (2011). Typologies of Intimate Partner Violence, Journal of Family Violence, DOI: 10.1007/s10896-011-9392-2;
Gottman, J.M. and Gottman, J.S., (2008). Gottman method couple therapy. In Gurmna, A.S., Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, Chapter 5, 138-166.
Coan, J.A. and Gottman, J.M., (2007). Sampling, experimental control, and generalizability in the study of marital process models, Journal of Marriage and Family, 69(1), 73-80;
Coan, J.A. and Gottman, J.M., (2007). The specific affect coding system (SPAFF). In J.A. Coan and J.J.B. Allen, Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment, Chapter 16, 267-285. NY: Oxford University Press;
Hedenbro, M., Shapiro, A.F., and Gottman, J.M., (2006). Play with me at my speed: Describing differences in the tempo of parent-infant interactions in the Lausanne triadic play, Family Process, 45(4), 485-498;
Gottman, J. and Kimberly, R., (2005). The mismeasure of therapy: Treatment outcomes in marital therapy research, In W.M. Pinsof and J.L. Lebow, Family Psychology: The Art of the Science, Chapter 3, 65-89. NY: Oxford University Press;
Gottman, J.M. and Driver, J.L., (2005). Dysfunctional marital conflict and everyday marital interaction, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 43(3-4), 63-78;
Jones, S., Carrère, S., and Gottman, J., (2005). Specific affect coding system, In Manusov, V., The Sourcebook of Nonverbal Measures: Going Beyond Words, 163-171. NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers;
Gottman, J., Ryan, K., Swanson, C., and Swanson, K., (2005). Proximal change experiments with couples: A methodology for empirically building a science of effective interventions for changing couples’ interaction, Journal of Family Communication, 5(3), 163-190;
Yoshimoto, D., Shapiro, A., O’Brien, K., and Gottman, J., (2005). Nonverbal communication coding systems of committed couples, In Harrigan, J.A., Rosenthal, R. and Scherer, K.R., The New Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research, Chapter 10, 369-397. NY, US: Oxford University Press;
Shapiro, A.F., and Gottman, J., (2005). Effects on marriage of a psycho-communicative-educational intervention with couples undergoing the transition to parenthood, evaluation at 1-year post-intervention, Journal of Family Communication 5(1), 1-24;
Driver, J.L. and Gottman, J.M., (2004). Daily Marital Interations and Positive Affect During Marital Conflict Among Newlywed Couples, Family Process, 43(3), 301-314;
Tabares, A. A., Driver, J.L., and Gottman, J.M., (2004). Repair Attempts Observational Coding System: Measuring De-Escalation of Negative Affect During Marital Conflict. In P.K. Kerig and D.H. Baucom (Eds.), Couple Observational Coding Systems, Chapter 14, 227-241. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates;
Driver, J. L, and Gottman, J.M., (2004). Turning Toward Versus Turning Away: A Coding System of Daily Interactions. In P.K. Kerig and D.H. Baucom (Eds.), Couple Observational Coding Systems, Chapter 13, 209-225. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates;
Shapiro, A. F., and Gottman, J.M., (2004). The Specific Affect Coding System (SPAFF). In P.K. Kerig and D.H. Baucom (Eds.), Couple Observational Coding Systems, Chapter 12, 191-207. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates;
Gottman, J.M. and Ryan, K., (2004). The Mis-measure of Therapy: Treatment Outcomes in Marital Therapy Research. In W.M. Pinsof and J. Lebow (Eds.), Family Psychology: The Art of the Science, Ch. 3. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press;
Driver, J.L., & Gottman, J.M., (2004). The specific affect coding system (SPAFF), Family Process, 43(3), 301-314;
Coan, J and Gottman, J., (2003). The Specific Affect Coding System. In Coan, J. A. & Allen, J. J. B. (Eds.). The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press;
Gottman, J.M., Levenson, R.W., Swanson, C., Swanson, K., Tyson, R., and Yoshimoto, D., (2003).Observing Gay, Lesbian and heterosexual Couples’ Relationships- Mathematical modeling of conflict interactions, Journal of Homosexuality, 45(1), 65-91;
Gottman, J.M., Levenson, R.W., Gross, J., Fredrickson, B., McCoy, K., Rosentahl, L., Ruel, A., and Yoshimoto, D., (2003). Correlates of Gay and Lesbian Couples’ Relationship Satisfaction and Relationship Dissolution, Journal of Homosexuality, 45(1), 23-43;
Driver, J., Tabares, A., Shapiro, A., and Nahm, E.Y. and Gottman, J., (2003). Interactional patterns in marital success and failure: Gottman laboratory studies. In F. Walsh (Ed.) Normal family process: Growing diversity and complexity, 3rd edition, 493-513, NY: Guilford Press;
Tabares, A. and Gottman, J. M., (2003). A Marital Process Perspective of Adolescent Romantic Relationships. In P. Florsheim (Ed.), Adolescent Romantic Relations and Sexual Behavior, 337-354, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates;
Gottman, J., Ryan, K., Carrere, S., and Erley, A., (2002). Toward a scientifically based marital therapy. In H. Liddle, D. Santisteban, et al. (Eds.) Family psychology: Science-based interventions, 147-174. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association;
Gottman, J., Driver, J., and Tabares, A., (2002). Building the Sound Marital House: An empirically-derived couple therapy. In A. S. Gurman and N. S. Jacobson (Eds.), Clinical Handbook of Couple Therapy, 3rd Edition, NY: Guilford Press;
Gottman, J.M., Driver, J., Yoshimoto, D. and Rushe, R., (2002). Approaches to the Study of Power in Violent and Nonviolent Marriages, and in Gay Male and Lesbian Cohabiting Relationships. In P. Noller and J. A. Feeney (Eds.), Understanding Marriage, Developments in the Study of Couple Interaction, 323-347, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press;
Gottman, J.M., and Notarius, C.I., (2002).Marital research in the 20th century and a research agenda for the 21st century, Family Process, 41(2), 159-197;
Gottman, J.M., and Katz, L.F., (2002). Children’s Emotional Reactions to Stressful Parent-Child Interactions- The Link between Emotion Regulation and Vagal Tone, Journal of Marriage and Family Review, Vol. 34 (3/4), 265-283. Reprinted in R.A. Fabes (Ed.), Emotions and the Family, NY: Haworth Press, Inc., 2002;
Gottman, J.M., and Levenson, R.W., (2002).Generating hypotheses after 14 years of marital follow up; or How should one speculate A reply to DeKay, Greeno and Houck, Family Process, 41(1), 105-110;
Gottman, J. and Levenson, R.W., (2002). A Two-Factor Model for Predicting When a Couple Will Divorce- Exploratory Analyses Using 14-Year Longitudinal Data, Family Process, 41 (1), p. 83-96;
Gottman, John, Swanson, Catherine, and Swanson, Kristin, A., (2002). General Systems Theory of Marriages- Nonlinear Difference Equation Modeling of Marital Interaction, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6(4), 326-340;
Gottman, John M., (2002). A Multidemensional Approach to Couples. In F. Kaslow and T. Patterson (Eds.), Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Vol. 2, Cognitive-behavioral approaches, 355-372. John Wiley & Sons, publishing;
Hawkins, M., Carrere, S., and Gottman, J.M., (2002). Marital sentiment override- Does it influence couples’ perceptions Journal of Marriage & the Family, 64(1), 193-201;
Hawkins, M., Carrere, S., & Gottman, J.M., (2002). The marriage survival kit: A research-based marital therapy, Journal of Marriage & the Family, 64(1), 193-201;
Wilson, B.J., and Gottman, J.M., (2002). Marital Conflict, Repair and Parenting. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of Parenting, Vol. 4, 227-258, Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, M. H. Bornstein (Ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing, New Jersey;
Gottman, John M., (2001). What the study of relationships has to say about emotion research, Social Science Information, Sage Publications;
Gottman, J., Levenson, R., Woodin, E., (2001). Facial Expressions During Marital Conflict, Journal of Family Communication, 1(1), 37-57;
Gottman, J.M., (2001). Meta-emotion, children’s emotional intelligence, and buffering children from marital conflict. In C. Ryff and B. Singer (Eds.) Emotion, social relationships and health, Series in affective science, 23-40;
Waltz, J., Babcock, J., Jacobson, N., and Gottman, J.M., (2000). Testing a typology of batterers, Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 68(4), 658-669;
Gottman, J., Carrere, S., Swanson, C., and Coan, J., (2000). Reply to “From basic research to interventions,” Journal of Marriage & the Family, 62(1), 265-273;
Babcock, J.C., Jacobson, N.S., Gottman, J.M., and Yerington, T.P., (2000). Attachment, emotional regulation, and the function of marital violence- Differences between secure, preoccupied, and dismissing violent and nonviolent husbands. Journal of Family violence, 15(4), 391-409;
Ryan, K.D., Gottman, J.M., Murray, J.D., Carrere, S., and Swanson, C., (2000). Theoretical and Mathematical Modeling of Marriage. In M. Lewis and I. Granic (Eds.), Emotion, Development, and Self-Organization: Dynamic Systems Approaches to Emotional Development, Cambridge University Press;
Ryan, K.D., Carrere, S., and Gottman, J.M., (2000). Building a Sound Marital House. In Marriage in America, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers;
Gottman, J.M., and Levenson, R. W., (2000). Timing of Divorce- Predicting When a Couple Will Divorce Over a 14-Year Period, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62, 737-745;
Gottman, J.M. and Notarius, C.I., (2000). Decade review- Observing marital interaction, Journal of Marriage & the Family, 62(4), 927-947;
Jacobson, N.S., Gottman, J.M., Waltz, J., Rushe, R., Babcock, J., and Holtzworth-Monroe, A., (2000). Affect, verbal content, and psychophysiology in the arguments of couples with a violent husband, Prevention & Treatment, 3;
Guterl, F., Nisbett, R., Cohen, D., Seligman, M., Staub, E., Baumeister, R., Jacobson, N., Gottman, J.M., (2000). Unit 7: Aggression. In M. Davis (Ed.) Annual editions: Social psychology, 4th edition, 148-169;
Sleek, S., Rosenberg, S., Cowley, G., Begley, S., Gottman, J., Silver, N., (2000). Unit 5: Social life, the Internet and romantic relationships. In M. Davis (Ed.) Annual editions: Social psychology, 4th edition, 106-125;
Shapiro, A.F., Gottman, J.M., and Carrere, S., (2000). The baby and the marriage-Identifying factors that buffer againist decline in marital satisfaction after the first baby arrives, Journal of Family Psychology, 14(1), 59-70;
Carrere, S., Buehlman, K.T., Coan, J.A., Gottman, J.M., Coan, J.A., and Ruckstuhl, L., (2000). Predicting Marital Stability and Divorce in Newlywed Couples, Journal of Family Psychology, 14(1), 42-58
Gottman, J.M., Levenson, R.W., (2000). Dysfunctional Marital Conflict: Women are being unfairly blamed, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 31(3/4), 1-17;
Katz, L.F., Wilson, B., and Gottman, J.M., (1999). Meta-emotion philosophy and family adjustment: Making an emotional connection. In M.J. Cox and J. Brooks-Gunn (Eds.) Conflict and cohesion in families: Causes and consequences. The advances in family research series, 131-165;
Carrere, S., and Gottman, J.M., (1999). Predicting the future of marriages. In E.M. Hetherington (Ed.) Coping with divorce, single parenting and remarriage: A risk and resiliency perspective, 3-22;
Gottman, J.M., and Gottman, J.S., (1999). The marriage survival kit: A research-based marital therapy. In R. Berger and M.T. Hannah (Eds.) Preventive approaches in couples therapy, 304-330;
Pasupathi, M., Carstensen, L., Levenson, R.W., and Gottman, J.M., (1999). Responsive Listening in long-married couples- A psycholinguistic perspective; Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 23(2), 173-193;
Berns, S.B., Jacobson, R.W., and Gottman, J.M., (1999). Demand-withdraw interaction patterns between different types of batterers and their spouses, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 25(3), 337-348;
Berns, S.B., Jacobson, N.S. and Gottman, J.M., (1999) Demand-withdraw interaction in couples with a violent husband, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67(5), 666-674;
Carrere, S., and Gottman, J.M., (1999). Predicting Divorce among Newlyweds from the First Three Minutes of a Marital Conflict Discussion, Family Process, Vol. 38(3), 293-301
Gottman, J.M., Levenson, R.W., (1999) Rebound from Marital Conflict and Divorce Prediction, Family Process, 38(3), 287-292;
Gottman, J.; Swanson, C.; Murray, J., (1999), The Mathematics of Marital Conflict Dynamic Mathematical Nonlinear Modeling of Newlywed Marital Interaction, Journal of Family Psychology, 13, No. 1, 3-19;
Gottman, J.M., Levenson, R.W., (1999), What Predicts Change in Marital Interaction Over Time, Family Process, 38(2), 143-158;
Gottman, J.M., Levenson, R.W., (1999), How Stable is Marital Interaction Over Time, Family Process, 38(2), 159-165;
Gottman, J.M. (1998). Toward a process model of men in marriages and families. In A. Booth & N. Crouter (Eds.), Men in Families, 149-192. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum;
Gottman, J.M., (1998). On the etiology of marital decay and its consequences: Comments from a clinical psychologist. In T.N. Bradbury (Ed.), The developmental course of marital dysfunction, 423-426;
Gottman, J.M., Coan, J., Carrere, S., and Swanson, C., (1998).Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60(1), 5-22;
Gottman, JM, (1998). Psychology and the study of marital processes, Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 169-97;
Jacobson, N.S., Gottman, J.M., Gortner, E., Berns, S., & Shortt, J.W., (1998). The longitudinal course of battering: When do couples split up? When does the abuse decrease? Violence and Victims; 11(4), 371-392
Bodemann, G., Gottman, J.M., and Backman, H., (1997). A Swiss replication of Gottman’s couple typology, Swiss Journal of Psychology, 56(4), 205-216;
Gortner, E., Berns, S., Jacobson, N.S., and Gottman, J.M., (1997). When women leave violent relationships-Dispelling clinical myths. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training. Vol. 34(4), 343-352;
Coan, J., Gottman, J.M., Babcock, J., & Jacobson, N.S. (1997). Battering and the male rejection of influence from women. Aggressive Behavior, 23(5), 375-388. Wiley-Liss, publishers;
Shortt, JW, and Gottman, J.M., (1997). Closeness in young adult sibling relationships- affective and physiological processes, Social Development, 6 (2), 142-164;
Gottman, J.M., Guralnick, M.J., Wilson, B., & Swanson, C.B., (1997). What should be the focus of emotion regulation in children? A nonlinear dynamic mathematical model of children’s peer interaction in groups. Development and Psychopathology, 9(2), 421-452;
Katz, LF and Gottman, J.M., (1997). Buffering children from marital conflict and dissolution, Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 26(2), 157-171;
Jacobson, N.S., Gottman, J.M., Gortner, E., Berns, S., & Shortt, J.W., (1998). The longitudinal course of battering: When do couples split up? When does the abuse decrease? Violence and Victims; 11(4), 371-392
Wilson, B.J. and Gottman, J., (1996). Attention – the shuttle between emotion and cognition: Risk, resiliency and physiological bases. In E.M. Hetherington and E. Blechman (Eds.), Stress, coping and resiliency in children and families, pp. 189-228. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates;
Guralnick, M.J., Gottman, J.M., and Hammond, M.A., (1996). Effects of social setting on the friendship formation of young children differing in developmental status, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 17(4), 625-651;
Guralnick, M.J., Connor, R.T., Hammond, M.A., Gottman, J.M., and Kinnish, K., (1996). The Peer relations of preschool children with communication disorders, Child Development, 67(2), 471-489;
Guralnick, M.J., Connor, R.T., Hammond, M., Gottman, J.M., and Kinnish, K., (1996). Immediate effects of mainstreamed settings on the social interactions and social integration of preschool children, American Journal on Mental Retardation, 100(4), 359-377;
Gottman, J.M., Katz, L.F., & Hooven, C., (1996). Parental meta-emotion philosophy and the emotional life of families- Theoretical models and preliminary data, Journal of Family Psychology, 10 (3), 243-268
Katz, L.F., Gottman, J.M., and Hooven, C., (1996).Meta-emotion philosophy and family functioning- Reply to Cowan (1996) and Eisenberg (1996): reply to Cowan (1996) and Eisenberg (1996), Journal of Family Psychology, 10 (3), 284-291;
Gottman, J.M., & Krokoff, L., (1996). What predicts marital interaction over time? A study of alternative models. In Gottman, J.M. (Ed.), What Predicts Divorce: The measures. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates;
Gottman, J.M., McCoy, K., Coan, J., & Collier, H., (1996). Vagal tone protects children from marital conflict. In J.M. Gottman (Ed.), What Predicts Divorce: The measures. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates;
Carstensen, L.L., Graff, J., Levenson, R.W., & Gottman, J.M., (1996). Affect in intimate relationships: The developmental course of marriage. In C. Magai and S. McFadden (Eds.), Handbook of Emotion, Adult Developments, and Aging, pp. 227 -247, San Diego, CA: Academic Press;
Bodenmann, G., Perrez, M., and Gottman, J.M., (1996). The significance of individual coping for a couple’s interaction under stress, Journal of Clinical Psychology, 25 (Zeitschrift fur Klinische Psychologie, Hogrefe-Verlag, Gottingen, Switzerland, printed in German language), 1-13;
Katz, LF, Gottman, JM, (1996). Spillover effects of marital conflict: in search of parenting and coparenting mechanisms. In James McHale and Philip Cowan (Eds.), New Directions for Child Development: Understanding how family-level dynamics affect children’s development, studies of two-parent families, No. 74, Jossey-Bass Publishers;
Carstensen, L.L., Gottman, J.M., and Levenson, R.W., (1995). Emotional behavior in long-term marriage. Psychology & Aging, Vol. 10(1), 140-149;
Gottman, J.M., (1995). The dissolution of the American family. In W.J. O’Neill (Ed.), Family, The First Imperative, pp. 103-115, Cleveland, OH: William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation, publishers;
Gottman, J.M., Jacobson, N.S., Rushe, R.H., Shortt, J.W., Babcock, J., LaTaillade, J.J., & Waltz, J., (1995). The relationship between heart rate reactivity, emotionally aggressive behavior, and general violence in batterers, Journal of Family Psychology, 9(3), 227-248;
Wilson, B.J., & Gottman, J.M., (1995). Marital interaction and parenting. In M.H. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of Parenting, Vol. 4, Applied and practical parenting, pp. 33-55;
Jacobson, N.S., Gottman, J.M., and Shortt, J.W., (1995). The distinction between type 1 and type 2 batterers- Further considerations…. Journal of Family Psychology, 9(3), 272-279;
Gottman, J.M., (1995). Crime, hostility, wife battering, and the heart- On the Meehan et al. Journal of Family Psychology, 15(3), 409-414;
Cook, J., Tyson, R., White, J., Rushe, R., Gottman, J., and Murray, J., (1995). The mathematics of marital conflict qualitative dynamic mathematical modeling of marital interaction. Journal of Family Psychology, 9(2), special series on Methodological Advances in Family Psychology, 110-130;
Gottman, J.M., Hooven, C., & Katz, L., (1995). Parental meta-emotion structure predicts family and child outcomes. Journal of Cognition and Emotion, 9, 229-264;
Gottman, J.M., (1995). Studying emotion in social interaction. In M. Lewis and J. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, Ch. 33, pp. 475-487. New York: Guilford Press;
Gottman, J.M., Hooven, C., & Katz, L., (1995). Observational methodology for infant research, Journal of Cognition and Emotion, 9, 229-264;
Gottman, J.M., (1995). Observational measures of behavior therapy outcomes, A reply to Jacobson. In M. Lewis & J.M. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, Ch. 33, 475-487, New York: Guilford Press;
Katz, L.F., and Gottman, J.M., (1995). Martial Interaction and Child Outcomes: A longitudinal study of mediating and moderating processes. In D. Cicchetti and S. Toth (Eds.), Emotion, Cognition and Representation, Ch. 9, 301-342, New York: University of Rochester Press;
Gottman, J.M., (1994). An agenda for marital therapy. In S. Johnson and L. Greenberg (Eds.), The heart of the matter: Perspectives on emotion in marital therapy, pp. 256-293;
Kahen, V., Katz, L.F., and Gottman, J.M., (1994). Linkages between parent-child interaction and conversations of friends, Social Development, 3(3), 238-254;
Katz, L.F., and Gottman, J.M., (1994). Patterns of marital interaction and children’s emotional development. In R.D. Parke and S.G. Kellam (Eds.), Exploring Family Relationships with Other Social Contexts, Ch. 3, pp. 49-74, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum;
Gottman, J., Rabin, C., Levenson, R., Carstensen, L., Jacobson, N., & Rushe, R., (1994). Gender differences in marriage: No. I: recent research on emotions. Neuropsy (French Journal, translated to French by E. Fivaz), 9, 68-69 and 75-81;
Jacobson, N.S., Gottman, J.M., Waltz, J., Rushe, R., et al, (1994). Affect, verbal content, and psychophysiology in the arguments of couples with a violent husband. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 62(5), 982-988;
Levenson, R.W., Carstensen, L.L. and Gottman, J.M., (1994). Influence of age and gender on affect, physiology and their interrelations: A study of long-term marriages. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67(1), 56-68
Gottman, J.M., (1994). Nonlinear differential equation models of marital interaction. In S. Johnson and L. Greenberg (Eds.), The heart of the matter: Perspectives on emotion in marital therapy, 256-293;
Gottman, J.M., and Carrere, S., (1994). Why can’t men and women get along? Developmental roots and marital inequities. In D.J. Canary and L. Stafford (Eds.), Communication and Relational Maintenance, Academic Press, Ch. 10, 203-229;
Gottman, J.M., and Rushe, R.H., (1994). Communication and social skills approaches to treating ailing marriages: A recommendation for a new marital therapy called “minimal marital therapy.” In W. O’Donahue and L. Krasner (Eds.), Handbook of Psychological Skills Training: Clinical Techniques and Applications, Ch. 13, 287-305;
Shortt, J.W., Bush, L., Roth, J., Gottman, J., and Katz, L., (1994). Children’s physiological responses while producing facial expressions of emotion. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 40(1), 40-59;
Babcock, J.C., Waltz, J., Jacobson, N.S., and Gottman, J.M., (1993). Power and violence- The relation between communication patterns, power discrepancies, and domestic violence. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 61(1), 40-50;
Gottman, J.M., (1993). Studying emotion in social interaction. In M. Lewis and J.M. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, pp. 475-487;
Cordova, J.V., Jacobson, N.S., Gottman, J.M., Rushe, R. and Cox, G., (1993). Negative Reciprocity and Communication in Couples with a Violent Husband; Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 102(4), 559-564;
Levenson, R.W., Carstensen, L.L., & Gottman, J.M., (1993). Long-term marriage- age, gender and satisfaction.. Psychology and Aging, 8(2), 301-313;
Katz, L.F., & Gottman, J.M., (1993). Patterns of marital conflict predict children’s internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Developmental Psychology, 29(6), 940-950;
Rushe, R.H., & Gottman, J.M., (1993). Essentials in the design and analysis of time-series experiments. In G. Keren and C. Lewis (Eds.), Methodological and Quantitative Issues in the Analysis of Psychological Date, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, Ch. 16, 493-528;
Gottman, J.M., (1993). A theory of marital dissolution and stability, Journal of Family Psychology, 7(1), 57-75;
Gottman, J.M., (1993). The roles of conflict engagement, escalation or avoidance in marital interaction- a longitudinal view of five types of couples.. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 61(1), 6-15;
Gottman, J.M., and Rushe, R., (1993). The analysis of change – Issues, fallacies, and new ideas, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 61(6), 907-910;
Buehlman, K., Gottman, J.M., & Katz, L., (1992). How a couple views their past predicts their future- predicting divorce from an oral history interview, Journal of Family Psychology, 5(3-4), 295-318;
Gottman, J.M., & Levenson, R.W., (1992). Marital processes predictive of later dissolution- behavior, physiology and health, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 221-233
Katz, L.F., Kramer, L., and Gottman, J.M., (1992). Conflict and emotions in marital, sibling and peer relationships. In C. Shantz and W. Hartup (Eds.), Conflict in Child and Adolescent Development, Ch. 5, 122-148. NY: Cambridge University Press;
Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Waltz, J., Jacobson, N.S., Monaco, V., Fehrenbach, P.A., & Gottman, J.M., (1992). Recruiting non-violent men as control subjects for research on marital violence: how easily can it be done? Violence and Victims, 7( 1), 79-88;
Kramer, L, & Gottman, J., (1992). Becoming a sibling- “With a little help from my friends.” Developmental Psychology, 28(4), 685-699;
Katz, L.F., and Gottman, J., (1991). Marital discord and child outcomes: A social psychophysiological approach. In J. Garber and K. Dodge (Eds.), The development of emotion regulation and dysregulation. Cambridge studies in social and emotional development, p. 129-155, NY: Cambridge University Press;
Katz, L., and Gottman, J., (1991). Martial discord and peer interaction: a social psychophysiological approach. In K. Dodge and J. Garber (Eds.), Emotion Regulation in Young Children, Cambridge Press, UK;
Gottman, J.M., (1991). Finding the roots of children’s problems with other children, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 8, 441-448;
Gottman, J.M., (1991). Predicting the longitudinal course of marriages, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 17(1), 3-7
Gottman, J.M., (1991). Chaos and regulated change in family interaction. In P. Cowan and E.M. Hetherington (Eds.), New Directions in Family Research: Transition and Change. Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum;
Gottman, J.M., (1990). Prospectus on family research, Journal of Family Research;
Gottman, J.M., (1990). Foreword in F. Fincham & T.N. Bradbury (Eds.), The Psychology of Marriage. New York, Guilford Press;
Parker, J. and Gottman, J.M., (1990). Friendship patterns in peer relations. In T.J. Berndt and G.W. Ladd (Eds), Peer Relationships in Child Development, NY, Wiley Press;
Gottman, J.M., (1990). Time-series analysis applied to physiological data. In J.T. Cacioppo and L.G. Tassinary (Eds.), Principles of Psychophysiology: Physical, Social and Inferential Elements, pp. 754-774. NY, Cambridge University Press;
Gottman, J.M., and Krokoff, L.J., (1990). Complex statistics are not always clearer than simple statistics- a reply to Woody and Costanzo, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 58(4), 502-505;
Gottman, J.M., (1990). Finding the laws of close personal relationships. In I. Sigel (Ed.), Research Programs from a Personal perspective, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum;
Griffin, W., & Gottman, J., (1990). Statistical analysis of family interaction patterns. In G.R. Patterson (Ed), New Directions in Family Research: Depression and Aggression. Hillsdale,NJ., L. Erlbaum;
Gottman, J., (1990). How marriages change. In G.R. Patterson (Eds.), Depression and Aggression in Family Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum;
Gottman, J.M., and Krokoff, L.J., (1989). The relationship between marital interaction and marital satisfaction- a longitudinal view. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 57, 47-52
Krokoff, L.J., Gottman, J.M., & Haas, S.D., (1989). Validation of rapid couples interaction scoring system, Behavioral Assessment, 11, 65-79;
Gottman, J.M., and Fainsilber, L., (1989). Effects of marital discord on young children’s peer interaction and health, Developmental Psychology, 25, 373-381;
Gottman, J.M. & Levenson, R.W., (1988). The social psychophysiology of marriage. In P. Noller and M.A. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Perspectives on Marital Interaction. Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters;
Krokoff, L.J., Gottman, J.M., and Roy, A.K., (1988). Blue-collar marital interaction and communication orientation. Journal of Personal and Social Relationships, 5, 201-221
Bakeman, R., & Gottman, J.M., (1987). Observational methodology for infant research. In J. Osofsky, Handbook of Infant Development. New York: Wiley press;
Gottman, J., (1987). The sequential analysis of family interaction. In T. Jacob (Ed.), Family Interaction and Psychopathology: Theories, Methods and Findings. New York: Plenum;
Gottman, J.M., & Levenson, R.W., (1986). Assessing the role of emotion in marriage, Behavioral Assessment, 8, 31-48;
Parkhurst, J., & Gottman, J. (1986). How young children get what they want. In J. Gottman and J. Parker (Eds.), Conversations of Friends, NY: Cambridge University Press;
Ginsberg, D., Gottman, J., & Parker, J., (1986). The importance of friendship. In J. Gottman & J. Parker (Eds.), Conversations of Friends, NY: Cambridge University Press;
Ginsberg, D. and Gottman, J., (1986). Conversations of college roommates. In J. Gottman and J. Parker (Eds.), Conversations of Friends. NY: Cambridge University Press;
Gottman, J. and Mettetal, G., (1986). Speculations about affective development: friendship and acquaintanceship through adolescence. In J. Gottman and J. Parker (Eds.),Conversations of Friends, NY: Cambridge University Press;
Gottman, J., (1986). The observation of social process. In J. Gottman and J. Parker (Eds.), Conversation of Friends, NY: Cambridge University Press;
Gottman, J., (1986). The world of coordinated play: same and cross-sex friendship in young children. In J. Gottman and J. Parker (Eds.), Conversations of Friends. New York: Cambridge University Press;
Gottman, J.M., & Levenson, R.W., (1985).A valid procedure for obtaining self-report of affect in marital interaction, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 53, 151-160;
Levenson, R.W., & Gottman, J.M., (1985). Physiological and affective predictors of change in relationship satisfaction, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 85-94
Gottman, J., & Levenson, R., (1984). Why marriages fail: affective and physiological patterns in marital interaction. In J. Masters (Eds.), Boundary Areas in Social and Developmental Psychology. New York: Academic Press;
Gottman, J. (1983). How Children Become Friends, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Serial #201, 48(2);
Levenson, R.W., & Gottman, J.M., (1983). Marital interaction- physiological linkage and affective exchange, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 587-597
Putallaz, M., & Gottman, J., (1983). Social relationship problems in children: an approach to intervention. In E.B. Lahey & A.E. Kazdin (Eds.), Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, Vol. 6, NY: Plenum Publishing Co.;
Notarius, C., Markman, H., & Gottman, J., (1983). The couples interaction scoring system: clinical applications. In E.E. Filsinger (Eds.), A Sourcebook of Marriage and Family Assessment. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications;
Krokoff, L.J., & Gottman, J.M., (1982). The structural model of marital interaction. In H.H. Blumberg & P. Hare (Eds.), Small Groups, Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons;
Kruse, J.A., & Gottman, J.M., (1982). Time-series methodology in the study of sexual hormonal and behavioral cycles, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 11, 405-415;
Putallaz, M., & Gottman, J., (1982). Conceptualizing social competence in children. In P. Karoly & J.J. Steffan (Eds.), Improving Children’s Competence: Advances in Child Behavioral Analysis and Therapy. Lexington, Mass: D.C. Heath & Co.;
Gottman, J., (1982). Emotional responsiveness in marital conversations, Journal of Communication, 32, 108-120;
Gottman, J., (1982). Temporal form- toward a new language for describing relationships, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 44, 943-962;
Gottman, J.M., Rose, F.T., & Mettetal, G. (1982). Time series analysis of social interaction data. In T. Field & A. Fogel (Eds.), Emotion and Interactions. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum;
Putallaz, M., & Gottman, J., (1981). An interactional model of children’s entry into peer groups, Child Development, 52, 986-994;
Putallaz, M., & Gottman, J., (1981). A theory of group acceptance. In S. Asher and J. Gottman (Eds.), The Development of Children’s Friendships. NY: Cambridge University press;
Gottman, J.M., & Ringland, J., (1981). The analysis of dominance and bi-directionality in social development, Child Development, 52, 393-412;
Gottman, J.M., & Porterfield, A.L., (1981). Communicative competence in the nonverbal behavior of married couples, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 43, 817-824;
Hartmann, D.P., Gottman, J.M., Jones, R.R., Gardner, W., Kazdin, A.E., & Vaught, R.S., (1980). Interrupted time-series analysis and its application to behavioral data, Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis, 13, 543-559;
Mettetal, G., & Gottman, J., (1980). Reciprocity and dominance in marital interaction. In J. Vincent (Ed.) Advances in Family Intervention, Assessment and Theory. Greenwich CT, JAI Press;
Putallaz, M., & Gottman, J., (1980). Conceptualizing social competence in children. In P. Karoly & J.J. Steffan (Eds.), Advances in Child Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Vol. 2, NY: Gardner Press, Inc.;
Gottman, J., Parkhurst, J., (1980). The development of friendship and acquaintanceship processes. In A. Collins (Ed.), Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Vol. 13, Norwood, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum;
Gottman, J.M., (1980). Analyzing for sequential connection and assessing inter-observer reliability for the sequential analysis of observational data. Behavioral Assessment, 2, 361-368;
Gottman, J.M., (1980). The consistency of nonverbal affect and affect reciprocity in marital interaction. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 48, 711-717;
Parke, R.D., Power, T.G., & Gottman, J.M., (1979). Conceptualizing and quantifying influence patterns in the family triad. In M. Lamb, S. Soumi, & G. Stephenson (Eds.), Methodological problems in the Study of Social Interaction. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press;
Gottman, J., & Bakeman, R., (1979). The sequential analysis of observational data. In M. Lamb, S. Soumi, G. Stephenson (Eds.), Methodological Problems in the Study of SocialInteraction. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press;
Gottman, J., (1979). Time-series of continuous data in dyads. In M. Lamb, S. Soumi, G. Stephenson (Eds.), Methodological Problems in the Study of Social Interaction, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press;
Gottman, J., (1979). Detecting cyclicity in social interaction, Psychological Bulletin, 86, 338-348;
Levenson, R.W., & Gottman, J.M., (1978). Toward the assessment of social competence, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 453-462;
Gottman, J.M. & Notarius, C., (1978). Sequential analysis of observational data using Markov chains. In T. Kratochwill (Ed.), Strategies to Evaluate Change in Single Subject Research, NY, Academic Press;
Gottman, J.M. & Glass, G., (1978). Time-series analysis of interrupted time-series experiments. In T. Kratochwill (Ed.), Strategies to Evaluate Change in Single Subject Research, NY: Academic Press;
Gottman, J.M. & Markman, H., (1978). Experimental designs in psychotherapy research. In S. Garfield & A. Bergin (Eds.), Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change, second edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons;
Gottman, J.M., (1978). Non-sequential data analysis techniques in observational research. In Carl Haywood and Gene Sackett (Eds.), Observing Behavior, Vol. 2, Data Collection and Analysis Methods, Baltimore, MD, University Park Press;
Schwartz, R., & Gottman, J., (1978). Toward a task analysis of assertive behavior, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 44, 910-920. Reprinted in G.C. Davison and M.M. Neale, Contemporary Readings in Psychopathology, N.Y.: Wiley;
Gottman, J., Markman, J., & Notarius, C., (1977). The topography of marital conflict- a sequential analysis of verbal and nonverbal behavior, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 39, 461-477;
Gottman, J., (1977). Toward a definition of social isolation in children, Child Development, 48, 513-517;
Gottman, J., (1977). The effects of a modeling film on social isolation in preschool children: a methodological investigation, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 5, 69-78;
Asher, S., Oden, S., & Gottman, J., (1977). Children’s friendships in school settings. In L.G. Katz (Ed.), Current Topics in Early Childhood Education, Vol. 1, Hillsdale, NJ, McGraw Hill;
Glass, C., Gottman, J., & Shmurak, S., (1976). Response acquisition and cognitive self-statement modification approaches to dating skills training, Journal of Counseling Psychology, 23, 520-526;
Gottman, J.M., Gonso, J., & Schuler, P., (1976). Teaching social skills to isolated children, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 4, 179-197;
Gottman, J.M., Notarius, C., Markman, H., Bank, S., Yoppi, B., and Rubin, M.E., (1976). Behavior exchange theory and marital decision making, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 14-23;
Gottman, J.M., Gonso, J., and Rasmussen, B., (1975). Social interaction, social competence and friendship in children, Child Development, 46, 706-718;
Gottman, J.M., (1973). N-of-one and N-of-two research in psychotherapy, Psychological Bulletin, 80, 93-105;
Asher, S.R., and Gottman, J.M., (1973). Sex of teacher and student reading achievement, Journal of Educational Psychology, 65, 168-171;
Gottman, J.M., McFall, R.M., (1972). Self-monitoring effects in a program for potential high-school drop-outs; a time-series analysis, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 39, 273-281;
Gottman, J.M., McFall, R.M. & Barnett, (1969). Design and analysis of research using time-series, Psychological Bulletin, 72, 299-306; (Selected in 1976 by the Journal of the American Statistical Association for inclusion in a volume of best methodological papers of the decade; also selected by the American Educational Research Association for inclusion in its volume, Experimental Design and Interpretation)
Gottman, J.M., McFall, R.M., & Barnett, (1969). Marital interaction and parenting, Psychological Bulletin, 72, 299-306;
Shapiro, A. F., Nahm E. Y., Gottman, J. M., & Content, K. (2011). Bringing baby home together: Examining the impact of a couple-focused intervention on the dynamics within family play. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 8(3).337-350. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2011.01102.x.
Peluso, P. R., Freund, R., Gottman, J. M., Gottman, J. S., & Peluso, J. P. (2019). Validation of the Gottman Negative Comparisons for Alternatives Scale. The Family Journal.
Other Materials
Navarra, Robert J., Gottman, John M., and Schwartz-Gottman, Julie. Sound Relationship House Theory and Relationship and Marriage Education, chapter in Evidence Based Approaches to Relationship and Marriage Education (Textbooks in Family Studies), Routledge, July 2015
Cleary Bradley, Renay P and Gottman, John M. Improving the Co-Parenting Alliance by Strengthening Couple Relationship Quality. SDRC Symposium, 2012.
Case Studies in Couples Therapy: Theory-Based Approaches (Routledge, late 2011) Chapter co-authored by Senior Certified Gottman Therapist Robert J. Navarra and John Gottman. Sample chapter
Empirical Status and Basis of Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy
Submission for Society for Research in Child Development Symposium
Couples Together Against Violence (CTAV) Intervention Program: Progress Report
Typologies of Intimate Partner Violence: Evaluation of a Screening Instrument for Differentiation
Reliability and Validity of the Sound Relationship House Scales
Relationship Research by Colleagues
White, Jacquelyn; Perilla, Julia; Anderson, Craig; Rosenbaum, Alan; Espelage, Dorothy. Best Violence Research of 2011: Selections From an Invited Panel of Researchers. Psychology of Violence, Vol 2(3), Jul 2012, 229-238.
Babcock, Julia, Graham, Katherine, Canady, Brittany, and Ross, Jody M. (2011) A Proximal Change Experiment Testing Two Communication Exercises With Intimate Partner Violent Men. Behavior Therapy 42 (2011) 336–347.