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Arthur Aron, PhD

Office: Psy B-262

Phone: (631) 632-7707

Fax: (631) 632-7876

Education

Ph.D. (1970) University of Toronto, Social Psychology. Dissertation Committee: A. J. Arrowood (Chair), J. B. Gilmore, and E. Tulving
M.A. (1968) University of California at Berkeley, Social Psychology. Thesis Committee: E. E. Sampson (Chair) and H. S. Coffey
B.A. (1967) University of California, Berkeley, Psychology and Philosophy (double major). Main professors: T. R. Sarbin and M. Scriven

Research Interests

Dr. Aron's research centers on the self-expansion model of motivation and cognition in personal relationships. His major current research programs focus on the following topics: (a) the cognitive overlap of self and other in close relationships, (b) how shared participation in novel and arousing activities can enhance relationship quality, (c) the role of friendship with members of ethnic outgroups in reducing intergroup prejudice, and (d) identify the neural circuits engaged by relationship-relevant cognitions and emotions. In addition, he is engaged in a major collaborative research program with Dr. Elaine Aron on the "highly sensitive person," including studies of the interaction of childhood environment with this apparently inherited trait in predicting adult functioning.

Teaching (current courses)

Undergraduate:
    Statistical Methods in Psychology [syllabus]
Graduate:
    Correlation & Regression [syllabus]
    Multivariate Methods (SEM) [syllabus]
    Social Psychology of Close Relationships [syllabus]

Awards and Grants (most recent)

National Science Foundation grant: RAPID: Shared novel/challenging activities and relationship quality: Testing key theoretical mechanisms and moderating variables in a large sample of returning combat soldiers (A. Aron, PI). May 15, 2009 - April 30, 2010. $166,983

Fetzer Institute Grant: Compassionate love for members of other groups: Deepening basic knowledge and developing real-world interventions (A. Aron, PI). September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2011. $125,378 (Award tentatively approved 5/8/09; awaiting final approval in June).

John Templeton Foundation Grant: The ladder of love: Scientific and conceptual progress toward love among religiously conservative adherents of the Abrahamic faiths (A. Aron, science section PI). September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2012. $1,800,000. (1/28 approval of letter of intent and invitation to submit full proposal; proposal is in preparation to be submitted September 1).

National Science Foundation Instrumentation Grant. Acquisition of a research-dedicated fMRI scanner at Stony Brook (T. Canli, PI: A. Aron, co-PI). Awarded August, 2007. $1,694,878.

Distinguished Career Research Award. International Association for Relationship Research. 2006.

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant. The extended contact effect: How knowledge of cross-group friendships can improve intergroup attitudes. (S. Wright, PI; A. Aron, co-PI). 1 June, 2004 - 30 May, 2007. $111,000.

Stony Brook Research Foundation Center for Survey Research Seed Grant. Can intense love last? If so, what are its correlates? (D. O’Leary, A. Aron, B. P. Acevedo, co-PIs). July 2007 - July 2008. $10,000.

Stony Brook Dean’s Fund and Psychology Department Fund Retention Grant. (to A. Aron). February 2005 - June, 2010. $135,000 ($20,000/year + $35,000 extra sabbatical)

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia Offer (declined). February, 2006.

Time-sharing experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS; an NSF funded program to support experiments conducted over the Web): Effects of Outgroup Friendship Salience on Outgroup Attitudes and Mediating Mechanisms. (A. Aron, PI). Awarded April 2004.

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member for 2002. (Stony Brook University-wide award.)

IRUL Foundation Grant: Other-regarding love for individuals outside one’s social group. (A. Aron, Stony Brook PI). 1 January, 2003 - December, 2006. $105,000.

Awarded Fellow status in the Society for General Psychology, 2002.

SUNY Presidential Award for Departmental Diversity Initiatives: Lecture series on diversity, intergroup relations, and prejudice: Psychological perspectives. (S. Levy & A. Aron) 2000-2001.

National Science Foundation grant: fMRI and social cognition in close relationships. (A. Aron, PI; NSF Award #9910420). 1 September, 1999 - 28 February, 2001. $99,160.

National Science Foundation grant: The effect of "exciting" shared activities on relationship satisfaction. (A. Aron, PI; NSF Award #9514417). 1 August, 1996 - 31 July, 1999. $220,863.

National Science Foundation grant: Acquisition of a system for combined recording of fMRI and event-related potentials in humans. September, 1998 - August, 1999. $290,000 (Collaborator)

National Science Foundation grant: Acquisition of experimental survey research laboratory in the social sciences at SUNY, Stony Brook. 15 July, 1999 - 31 July, 2002 $104,866 (Collaborator)

Awarded Role Theorist of the Year, Annual Role Theory Meeting, 2001.

Awarded Fellow status by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 2000

Awarded Fellow status by American Psychological Association, 1999

Awarded Fellow status in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 1999

Awarded Fellow status by the American Psychological Society, 1998

Honorable Mention, 1996 Gordon Alpert Intergroup Relations Prize (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues): Best Paper or Article of the year on intergroup relations, “The extended contact effect: Knowledge of cross-group friendships and prejudice” (JPSP, July, 1997).

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Grants-in-Aid award, 1995.

Department of Psychology, SUNY at Stony Brook, Spring Research Incentive Funds award, 1995.

Dean's Competitive Small Grants for Untenured Faculty, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1994.

Elected to Society for Experimental Social Psychology, 1992.

Honorable Mention, Outstanding Contribution During 1991 and 1992 by the International Society

for the Study of Personal Relationships (ISSPR) for “Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale and the structure of interpersonal closeness” (JPSP, October, 1992.

Nominated: Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Close Relationships, 1990

Atlanta Community Foundation Research Grant, 1981.

Award for Excellence in Teaching (MIU), 1979.

Canada Council Research Grant (with Don Dutton), 1973-1974.

National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, 1970-1972.

Canada Council Doctoral Fellow(with outstanding merit bonus), 1969.

National Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship, 1969.

Province of Ontario Grant, 1969.

Election to University of California Senior Honor Society, 1966.

California State Scholarship, 1963.

Jean C. Witter, Jr. Scholarship, 1963.

Professional Activities: Memberships

American Psychological Association (APA; Fellow)

American Psychological Society (APS; Fellow)

International Association for Relationship Research (IARR)

Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)

Society for General Psychology (SGP, Fellow)

Society for Neuroscience

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP; Fellow)

Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI; Fellow)

Professional Activities: Editorial Services (selected)

    Associate Editor (1996 to 2002): Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Interpersonal Relations & Group Processes section
    Consulting Editor (1993 to 1995, 2003 to Present): Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Interpersonal Relations & Group Processes section
    Editorial Board (1997 to Present): Journal of Personal and Social Relationships
    Editorial Board (1993 to 2001, 2003 to Present): Personal Relationships
    Reviewer of Grant Proposals: National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Hong Kong Research Grants, New York University Research Challenge Fund, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
    Reviewer for Book Publishers: APA Books, Gordon & Breach, Harper & Row/Harper Collins, Hayden Books, Mayfield Books, Oxford University Press, Prentice-Hall, Sage Publications

Publications:

Books (selected)

Aron, A., Aron, E. N., & Coups, E. (1994, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2008). Statistics for psychology (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th editions) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Aron, A., Aron, E., & Coups, E. (1996, 2002, 2005, 2007, in preperation). Statistics for the behavioral and social sciences: Brief course. (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd. 4^th , and 5^th editions). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Mashek, D., & Aron, A. (Eds.). (2004). Handbook of closeness and intimacy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. (1986, 1989). The heart of social psychology ( 1^st and 2^nd Editions). New York: Lexington/Free Press.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. (1986). Love and the expansion of self: Understanding attraction and satisfaction. New York: Hemisphere.

Articles and Chapters

Aron, A. (in press). The brain and close relationship behaviors. In C. R. Agnew, D. E. Carlston, W. G. Graziano, & J. R. Kelly (Eds), Then a miracle occurs:

Focusing on behavior in social psychology theory and research. New York: Oxford University Press.

Aron, A. (in press). Love. In P. S. Fry & P. T. P. Wong (eds.) The human quest for meaning: A handbook of psychological research and clinical applications

(2^nd ed). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Davies, K., Wright, S. C., & Aron, A. (in press). Building positive relations between groups from close relationships between members of those groups. In L. R. Tropp & R. Mallett (Eds.), Beyond prejudice reduction: Pathways to positive intergroup relations. Washington, DC: Psychology Press.

Ketay, S. & Aron, A. & Hedden, T. (in press). The influence of culture on attention. In J. Chiao (Ed.), Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural influences on Brain

Function, Progress in Brain Research. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Lewandowski, G. W., & Aron, A. (in press). Attraction. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the mind, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Reimann, M., & Aron, A. (in press). Self-expansion and inclusion of brands in the self: Towards a theory of brand relationships. In J. Priester, D. MacInnis, &

C. W. Park (Eds.), Handbook of Brand Relationships. Armonk, NY: Society for Consumer Psychology (M.E. Sharpe, Inc.)

Tsapelas, I., Fisher, H. E., & Aron, A. (in press). Infidelity: Who, when, and why. In W. R. Cupach & B. H. Spitzberg (Eds.), The dark side of close

relationships II. New York, NY: Routledge.

Wright, S. C., & Aron, A. (in press). The Extended Contact Effect. In J. M. Levine & M. A. Hogg (eds.), Encyclopedia of group processes and intergroup

relations, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

Acevedo, B. P., & Aron, A. (2009). Does a long-term relationship kill romantic love? Review of General Psychology, 13, 59-65.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (2009). The self-expansion model. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA:

Sage.

Aron, A. & Davies, K. (2009). Plato and Aristotle on close relationships. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand

Oaks, CA: Sage.

Aron, A., Fisher, & Strong (2009). Falling in love. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Strong, G., Fincham, F. , & Aron, A. (2009). When nothing bad happens but you’re still unhappy: Boredom in romantic relationships. In Mind, 8.

http://www.in-mind.org/issue-8/when-nothing-bad-happens-but-you-re-still-unhappy-boredom-in-romantic-relation-3.html.

Tsapelas, I., Aron, A., & Orbuch, T. (2009). Marital boredom now, predicts less satisfaction nine years later. Psychological Science, 20, 543-545.

Aron, A., Fisher, H., Strong, G., Acevedo, B., Riela, S., & Tsapelas, I. (2008). Falling in love. In S. Sprecher, A. Wenzel, & J. Harvey (Eds.), Handbook of

relationship initiation. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Brody, S., Wright, S., Aron, A., & McLaughlin-Volpe, T. (2008). Compassionate love for individuals outside one’s social group. In L. Underwood, S. Sprecher,

& B. Fehr, The science of compassionate love: Research, theory, and practice. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Hedden, T., Ketay, S., Aron, A., Markus, H., Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2008). Cultural influences on neural substrates of attentional control. Psychological Science, 19,

13-17.

Ries, H., & Aron, A. (2008). Love: What is it, why does it matter, and how does it operate? Perspectives in Psychological Science, 3, 80-86. (Invited article

for special issue on “Theory generation, theory development, and the next big questions.”)

Wright, S. C., Aron, A., & Brody, S. (2008). Extended contact and including others in the self: Building on the Allport/Pettigrew

Legacy. In U. Wagner, L. Tropp, G. Finchilescu, & C. Tredoux (Eds.), Improving intergroup relations: Building on the legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew,

Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Aron, A., Fisher, H., & Strong, G. (2007). Romantic love. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Aron, A., Ketay, S., Riela, S., & Aron, E. N. (2007). How close others construct and reconstruct who we are and how we feel about ourselves. In J. Wood, A.

Tesser, & J. Holmes (Eds.), The self and social relationships. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

Aron, A., Whitfield, S., & Lichty, W. (2007). Whole brain correlations: Examining similarity across conditions of overall patterns of neural activation in fMRI.

In S. Sawilowsky (Ed.), Real data analysis (pp.365-369). Charlotte, NC: American Educational Research Association / Information Age Publishing.

Lewandowski, G. W., Aron, A., & Gee , J. (2007). Personality goes a long way: The malleability of opposite-sex physical attractiveness perceptions. Personal

Relationships, 14, 571–585

Aron, A. (2006). Relationship neuroscience: Advancing the social psychology of close relationships using functional neuroimaging. In P. A. M. VanLange (Ed.),

Bridging social psychology: Benefits of transdisciplinary approaches (pp. 261-266). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Aron, A., & Aron. E. N. (2006). Romantic relationships from the perspectives of the self-expansion model and attachment theory: Partially overlapping

circles. In M. Mikulincer & F. S. Goodman (Eds.), The dynamics of romantic love: Attachment, caregiving, and sex (pp. 359-382). New York: Guilford.

Aron, A; Fisher, H., & Strong, G. (2006). Romantic love. In A. Vangelisti & D. Perlman (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of personal relationships (pp. 595-614).

New York: Cambridge Univ Press.

Aron, A., Steele, J. L., Kashdan, T., & Perez, M. (2006). When similars do not attract: Tests of a prediction from the self-expansion model. Personal

Relationships, 13, 387-396.

Fisher, H., Aron, A., & Brown, L. L. (2006). Romantic love: A mammalian brain system for mate choice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society:

Biological Sciences, 361, 2173-2186.

Lewandowski, G. W., Aron, A., Bassis, S., & Kunak, J. (2006). Losing a self-expanding relationship: implications for the self-concept. Personal Relationships,

13, 317-331.

Strong, G., & Aron, A. (2006).The effect of shared participation in novel and challenging activities on experienced relationship quality: Is it mediated by high

positive affect? In K. D. Vohs & E. J. Finkel (Eds.), Self and Relationships: Connecting Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes (pp. 342-359). New York:

Guilford.

Fisher, H., Aron, A., & Brown, L. L. (2005). Romantic love: An fMRI study of a neural mechanism for mate choice. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 493,

58-62

Omura, K., Aron, A., & Canli, T. (2005). Variance maps as a novel tool for localizing regions of interest in imaging studies of individual differences. Cognitive,

Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 252-261.

Aron, E., Aron, A., & Davies, K. (2005). Adult shyness: The interaction of temperamental sensitivity and a negative childhood environment. Personality and

Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 181-197.

Aron, A., Fisher, H., Mashek, D, Strong, G., Li, H., & Brown, L. (2005). Reward, motivation and emotion systems associated with early-stage intense romantic

love. Journal of Neurophysiology, 93, 327-337.

McLaughlin-Volpe, T., & Aron, A., Wright, S. C., & Lewandowski, G. W. (2005). Inclusion of the self by close others and by groups: Implications of the self-

expansion model. In D. Abrams, J. Marques, & M. Hogg (Eds.), Social inclusion and exclusion (113-134). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

Wright, S.C., Brody, S.M. & Aron, A. (2005). Intergroup contact: Still our best hope for improving intergroup relations. In C. S. Crandall & M. Schaller (Eds.)

Social psychology of prejudice: Historical and contemporary issues (pp. 115-142). Seattle, WA: Lewinian Press.

Aron, A. (2004). The Dynamics of relationships and of relationship science (review of A L. Vangelisti, H. T. Reis, & M. A. Fitzpatrick, Stability and change in

relationships). Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 49, 567-570.

Aron, A., & Mashek, D. (2004). Conclusion: What are closeness and intimacy? In D. Mashek & A. Aron (Eds.), Handbook of closeness and intimacy (pp. 415-

428). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Aron, A., Mashek, D., & Aron, E. N. (2004). Closeness, intimacy, and including other in the self. In D. Mashek & A. Aron (Eds.), Handbook of closeness and

intimacy (pp. 27-41). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Aron, A., Mashek, D., McLaughlin-Volpe, T., Wright, S. C., Lewandowski, & Aron, E. N. (2004). Including close others in the cognitive structure of the self. In

M. Baldwin (Ed.), Interpersonal cognition (206-232). New York: Guilford.

Aron, A., McLaughlin-Volpe, T., Mashek, D., Lewandowski, G., Wright, S. C., & Aron, E. N. (2004). Including close others in the self. European Review of

Social Psychology, 15, 101-132.

Fraley, B., & Aron, A. (2004). The effect of a shared humorous experience on closeness in initial encounters. Personal Relationships, 11, 61-78

Lewandowski, G. W., & Aron, A. P. (2004). Distinguishing arousal from novelty and challenge in initial romantic attraction. Social Behavior and Personality,

32, 361-372

Aron, A. (2003). The self and relationships. In M. R. Leary & J. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of self and identity (pp. 442-461). New York: Guilford.

Mashek, D., Aron, A., & Boncimino, M. (2003). Confusions of self with close others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 382-392.

Norman, C., & Aron, A. (2003). Aspects of future self that predict motivation to achieve or avoid it. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 500-507.

Aron, A., Norman, C., Aron, E. N., & Lewandowski, G. (2002). Shared participation in self-expanding activities: Positive effects on experienced marital

quality. In P. Noller & J Feeney (Eds.), Understanding marriage: Developments in the study of couple interaction. Cambridge University Press.

Fisher, H. E., Aron, A., Mashek, D., & Brown, L. L. (2002). Defining the brain systems of lust, romantic attraction, and attachment. Archives of Sexual

Behavior, 31, 413-419.

Fisher, H., Aron, A., Mashek, D., Li, H., Strong, G., & Brown, Lucy L. (2002). The neural mechanisms of mate choice: An Hypothesis. Neuroendocrinology

Letters, 23 (suppl 4), 92-97.

Wright, S. C., Aron, A., & Tropp, L. R. (2002). Including others (and groups) in the self: Self-expansion and intergroup relations. In J.P. Forgas & K. Williams

(Eds.), The social self: Cognitive, interpersonal and intergroup perspectives (pp. 343-363). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (2001). The self expansion model of motivation and cognition in close relationships and beyond. In M Clark & G. Fletcher (Eds.),

Blackwell Handbook in Social Psychology, Vol. 2: Interpersonal Processes (pp. 478-501). Oxford: Blackwell.

Aron, A., Aron, E. N., & Norman, C. (2001). Combating boredom in close relationships by participating together in self-expanding activities. In J. H. Harvey &

A. E. Wenzel (Eds.), Close romantic relationship maintenance and enhancement. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Aron, A. & Lewandowski, G. (2001). Interpersonal attraction, psychology of. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social

and Behavioral Sciences (pp. 7860-7862). Oxford: Pergamon.

Aron, A., & McLaughlin-Volpe, T. (2001). Including others in the self: Extensions to own and partner’s group memberships. In C. Sedikides & M. B. Brewer

(Eds.), Individual self, relational self, and collective self: Partners, opponents, or strangers? (pp. 89-109). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

Golby, A. J., Poldrack, R. A., Brewer, J. B., Spencer, D., Desmond, J. E., Aron, A. P., & Gabrieli, D. E. (2001). Material-specific lateralization in the medial

temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex during memory encoding. Brain, 124, 1841-1854

Hassebrauck, M., & Aron, A. (2001). Prototype matching in close relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1111-1122.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (2000). The self-expansion model: Motivation and including other in the self. In W. Ickes & S. Duck (Ed.), The social psychology of

personal relationships. Chichester, England: Wiley.

Aron, A. (2000). Love: An overview. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology. (Vol. 5, pp. 82-85) Washington, DC: American Psychological

Association.

Aron, A., Norman, C. C., Aron, E. N., McKenna, C., & Heyman, R. (2000). Couples shared participation in novel and arousing activities and experienced

relationship quality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 273-283.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (2000). What is intimacy? ISSPR Bulletin, 17, 3-4.

Mashek, D., Aron, A., & Fisher, H. (2000). Identifying, evoking, and measuring intense feelings of romantic love. Representative Research in Social

Psychology, 24, 48-55.

Aron, A., & Fraley, B. (1999). Relationship closeness as including other in the self: Cognitive underpinnings and measures. Social Cognition, 17, 140-160.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1999). Including other in the self as a central relationship quality. ISSPR Bulletin, March.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1999). Some distinctions and dimensions we have found useful. ISSPR Bulletin, March.

Aron, A., Aron, E. N., Allen, J. (1998). Motivations for unreciprocated love. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 787-796.

Aron, A., Norman, C., & Aron, E. N. (1998). Self-expansion as a basic motivational process. Representative Research in Social Psychology, 22, 1-13. (Feature

article.)

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1997). Self-expansion motivation and including other in the self. In W. Ickes (Section Ed.) & S. Duck (Ed.), Handbook of personal

relationships (2nd Edition, Vol. 1, pp. 251-270). London: Wiley.

Aron, A., Melinat, E., Aron, E. N., Vallone, R., & Bator, R. (1997).The experimental generation of interpersonal closeness: A procedure and some preliminary

findings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 363-377.

Aron, E. N., & Aron, A. (1997). Sensory-processing sensitivity and its relation to introversion and emotionality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,

73, 345-368.

Aron, E. N., & Aron, A. (1997). Extremities of love: The sudden sacrifice of career, family, dignity. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 16, 200-212.

Wright, S. C., Aron, A., McLaughlin-Volpe, T., & Ropp, S. A. (1997).The extended contact effect: Knowledge of cross-group friendships and prejudice. Journal

of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 73-90.

** Reprinted in Hogg, M. A. (Ed.) (2003). Social psychology (Vol. 4). London, UK: Sage

** Honorable Mention, 1996 Gordon Alpert Intergroup Relations Prize of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) for Best Paper or Article of the year on intergroup relations. The prize committee described the paper as documenting a “powerful idea” with “important implications for

theory, research, and policy.”

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1996). Self and self-expansion in relationships. In G. J. O. Fletcher & J. Fitness (Eds.), Knowledge structures in close relationships: A

social psychological approach (pp. 325-344). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Aron, E. N., & Aron, A. (1996). Love and expansion of the self: The state of the model. Personal Relationships, 3, 45-58.

Aron, A. (1996). [Review of Theoretical Frameworks for Personal Relationships.] Journal of Marriage and the Family, 58, 533-534.

Aron, A., & Westbay, L. (1996). Dimensions of the prototype of love. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 535-551.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1995). Three suggestions for increased emphasis in the study of close relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12,

559-562. (Invited article.)

Aron, A., Paris, M., & Aron, E. N. (1995). Falling in love: Prospective studies of self-concept change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 1102-

1112.

Aron, E. N., & Aron, A. (1995). The highly sensitive person in close relationships. ISSPR Bulletin, 12, 9-10.

Aron, A. (1995). Psychodynamics of love. [Review of Mapping the terrain of the heart.] Contemporary Psychology, 40, 998-999.

Aron, A., & Henkemeyer, L. (1995). Marital satisfaction and passionate love. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 12, 141-149.

Sprecher, S., Aron, A., Hatfield, E., Cortese, A., Potapova, E., & Levitskaya, A. (1994). Love: American style, Russian style, and Japanese style. Personal

Relationships, 1, 349-369.

Aron, A. (1994). Love and courtship: What's been done--and what hasn't [Review of Courtship and Romantic love]. Contemporary Psychology, 39, 160-161.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N.(1994). Love. In A.L. Weber & J.H. Harvey (Eds.), Perspectives on close relationships (131-152).New York: Allyn & Bacon.

Aron, A. (1993). Friendship [Review of Friendship matters: Communication, dialectics, and the life course]. Contemporary Psychology, 38, 696-697.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1993). Relationship as a region of the life space. Personal Relationship Issues, 1, 22-24.

Aron, A., Aron, E. N., & Smollan, D. (1993). Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale (HaPI Record). Pittsburgh, PA: Behavioral Measurement Database Services

(Producer). McLean, VA: BRS Search Service (Vendor).

Reissmann, C., Aron, A., & Bergen, M. (1993). Shared activities and marital satisfaction: Causal direction and self-expansion versus boredom. Journal of

Social and Personal Relationships, 10, 243-254.

Tucker, P., & Aron, A. (1993). Passionate love and marital satisfaction at key transition points in the family life cycle. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology,

12, 135-147.

Aron, A., Aron, E. N., & Smollan, D. (1992). Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale and the structure of interpersonal closeness. Journal of Personality and Social

Psychology, 63, 596-612.

** Awarded Honorable Mention for Outstanding Contribution During 1991 and 1992 by the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships (ISSPR). This means it received a rating in the top six of the 200+ articles and chapters on personal relationships published during this period.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1991). Love and sexuality. In K. McKinney & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Sexuality in close relationships (pp. 25-48). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence

Erlbaum.

Aron, A., Aron, E. N., Tudor, M., & Nelson, G. (1991). Close relationships as including other in the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 241-

253.

** Reprinted in H. T. Reis & C. E. Rusbult (2004) Close relationships: Key readings (365-379). Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.

Facchino, D., & Aron, A.(1990). Divorced fathers with custody: Method of obtaining custody and divorce adjustment. Journal of Divorce, 13, 45-56.

Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1989). Review of Psychology of Love. American Journal of Psychology, 102, 281-285.

Aron, A., Dutton, D. G., Aron, E. N., & Iverson, A. (1989). Experiences of falling in love. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 6, 243-257.

Dutton, D. G., & Aron, A. (1989). Romantic attraction and liking for sources of conflict-based arousal. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 21, 246-257. Aron, A. (1988). The matching hypothesis reconsidered again. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 441-446.

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