Dr. John Gottman

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531 appearances 7 recordings 7 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 3 Jul

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They're measuring all kinds of physiological measures.

Every time they urinate, we take a sample and measure stress hormones.

And then we take blood from them the next day.

And

and look at the immune system and stress hormones in the immune system.

So we're just kind of watching couples.

And it turns out that we can predict the future of the relationship six years later from the way they interacted in that apartment lab.

So the prediction is really 94% accurate at predicting the future.

Right.

Or using humor as a way to wind things down.

Humor turns out to be very important.

That was a big surprise to us.

And I'm a conflict avoider.

Right.

Let's hear about that.

You know, Bob and I found that if we had couples talk about a conflict issue for 15 minutes, we could predict with almost 90% accuracy

whether they would divorce or stay together, and if they stayed together, how happily married or unhappily married they would be.

But then somebody in my lab, civil career, said, what if we lop off the data from the last three minutes and we only have 12 minutes?

What's the prediction like with only 12 minutes of data?

And it was just fine.

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