Married Couples
Robert Levenson, Ph.D., researches human psychophysiology. Levenson uses longitudinal studies of married couples' physiological responses. He measures how empathy requires a calm and receptive emotional environment for the couple to be in physiological sync. When an emotional hijacking is taking place (anger or argument) empathy declines and the cognitions of the spouse are blocked.
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Famous quotes containing the words married and/or couples:
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—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
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Are leaving gaps already, and the rest
Move tables closer.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)