Relationship Decisions Lab

Tell us about your new relationship!

The Relationship Decisions Lab at Western University is looking for newly dating couples to share their experiences regarding their relationship. In the end, you will not only contribute to science, but you will also learn more about your partner and your relationship! As a thank you, there will be a compensation of up to $70 per person!

Both participants must be physically in London, Ontario for the lab portion of the study.

To participate, please send us an email at [email protected]. For more details check out the study flyer below.

Thank you for supporting our research!

Random numbers--or anchors--can have a surprisingly large impact on people's judgments. What happens when they're applied to romantic relationships?

Our research shows that anchors can make people think that positive things are more likely to happen in their relationships, but they cannot make people think that negative events are more likely to happen.

In other words, people use even meaningless information if it supports the conclusions they want (e.g., their relationship will last forever), but ignore similar information when it threatens those conclusions (e.g., the relationship will end).

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0146167217702613

Motivated Use of Numerical Anchors for Judgments Relevant to the Self - , 2017 The anchoring effect has been replicated so extensively that it is generally thought to be ubiquitous. However, anchoring has primarily been tested in domains in which people are motivated to reach