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Friendship and tiny daily bids matter more than fixing fights
Gottman argues lasting marriages run on updated knowledge, fondness, and everyday responsiveness because most conflicts are permanent differences, not puzzles to solve.
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About John Gottman
John Mordechai Gottman is an American psychologist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington. His research focuses on divorce prediction and marital stability through relationship analyses. Gottman's work is centered on the field of relationship counseling: enhanced relationship functioning and mitigation of behaviors detrimental to human relationships. Gottman's work has also contributed to the development of important concepts on social sequence analysis.
Everything about John Gottman →- Occupation
- psychologist, university teacher, writer, psychotherapist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 26, 1942