Attributions, Accounts, and Close Relationships

ATTRIBUTIONS, ACCOUNTS AND CLOSE RELATIONSHPIS documentsattributional and accounts approaches to the study of closerelationships. Issues of focus include communication pro-blems in marriage and their relationship with causal attri-butions; marital violence and its relationship with earlylearning experience; ego-defensive attribution and excuse-making in couples and with respect to medical problems; andattributions about transitions in relationships.