Margaret Clark
John M. Musser Professor of PsychologyCards
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2026
Concluding that romantic relationships matter more to men than to women is too simple
Elizabeth H, Clark M. Concluding that romantic relationships matter more to men than to women is too simple. Behavioral And Brain Sciences 2026, 49: e101. PMID: 42222972, DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25102732.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRomantic relationshipsVariability in how people seek significance and fall in love
Clark M, Chughtai M. Variability in how people seek significance and fall in love. Behavioral And Brain Sciences 2026, 49: e6. PMID: 42203733, DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25102306.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHow Communal Relational Contexts Shape (and Are Shaped by) Emotional Lives
Clark M, Adkins C, Chughtai M, Elizabeth H. How Communal Relational Contexts Shape (and Are Shaped by) Emotional Lives. 2026, 373-398. DOI: 10.1017/9781009381949.019.Books
2025
Impartial Beneficence Predicts Greater and More Uniform Concern for Others Across Social Relationships.
Earp B, McLoughlin K, Caraccio M, Calcott R, Rottman J, Clark M, Crockett M. Impartial Beneficence Predicts Greater and More Uniform Concern for Others Across Social Relationships. Personality And Social Psychology Bulletin 2025, 1461672251379518. PMID: 41384570, DOI: 10.1177/01461672251379518.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMore real together: conversation predicts realness through shared reality
Rossignac-Milon M, Boothby E, Clark M, Pinelli F, Higgins E. More real together: conversation predicts realness through shared reality. Self And Identity 2025, ahead-of-print: 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2025.2597803.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWhether Emotions are Engaging or Disengaging Depends on Relationship Functions
Chughtai M, Gendron M, Clark M. Whether Emotions are Engaging or Disengaging Depends on Relationship Functions. Affective Science 2025, 6: 700-713. PMID: 41694074, PMCID: PMC12894525, DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00327-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLinks between partnering, relationship quality and mental well-being among sexual minority and straight individuals
Elizabeth H, Wongsomboon V, Clark M. Links between partnering, relationship quality and mental well-being among sexual minority and straight individuals. Psychology And Sexuality 2025, 16: 981-1003. DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2025.2490913.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMental Well-BeingRelationship qualityRomantic relationshipsWell-beingSelf-esteemSexual minority individualsLife satisfactionLevels of relationship qualitySexual minoritiesSexual orientationMinority individualsPartnered peoplePartnered individualsLower depressionLower lonelinessLess depressionLonelinessDepressionPartnershipLesbian/GayIndividualsMinorityLifeRelationshipPeoplePerceiving and responding to another’s interest in initiating friendship: The role of attachment insecurity
Beck L, Aragón O, Clark M. Perceiving and responding to another’s interest in initiating friendship: The role of attachment insecurity. Journal Of Social And Personal Relationships 2025, 42: 1756-1777. DOI: 10.1177/02654075251331796.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAttachment insecurityFriendship initiationUnacquainted participantsStudy 1Study 2Reciprocating othersResponse to interestInitiate friendshipsPotential friendsAssociate with othersFriendshipFriends’ interestsIndividualsParticipantsOthersAttachmentPerceptionHostilityConfederateDisinterestFearInsecurity
2024
Author Correction: How social relationships shape moral wrongness judgments
Earp B, McLoughlin K, Monrad J, Clark M, Crockett M. Author Correction: How social relationships shape moral wrongness judgments. Nature Communications 2024, 15: 7906. PMID: 39256421, PMCID: PMC11387412, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52274-w.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersThe Development of a Novel Scale to Assess Intra- and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies: The Emotion Regulation Strategy Scale (ERSS)
Kneeland E, Hay A, Curtiss J, Hennessey A, Vanderlind W, Joormann J, Clark M. The Development of a Novel Scale to Assess Intra- and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies: The Emotion Regulation Strategy Scale (ERSS). Emotion 2024, 24: 1582-1599. PMID: 38829352, DOI: 10.1037/emo0001375.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEmotion Regulation Strategies ScaleEmotion regulation strategiesInterpersonal emotion regulation strategiesRegulation strategiesConfirmatory factor analysisEmotion regulationStudy 3Specific emotion regulation strategiesLevels of clinical symptomsEmotion regulation researchEmotion Regulation ScaleFactor analysisIntra-personalNine-factor solutionInterpersonal scalesCognitive reappraisalRegulation ScaleExpressive suppressionSituation selectionStudy 1Study 2Scale itemsRegulation researchEmotionsClinical samples