Tissera Hasagani, Visserman Mariko L, Impett Emily A, Muise Amy, Lydon John E
McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Soc Psychol Personal Sci. 2023 Nov;14(8):900-910. doi: 10.1177/19485506221137958. Epub 2022 Dec 2.
Perceiving a partner's gratitude has several benefits for romantic relationships. We aimed to better understand these associations by decomposing perceptions into accuracy and bias. Specifically, we examined whether accuracy and bias in perceiving a partner's experience (Study 1: 205) and expression (Study 2: 309) of gratitude were associated with romantic relationship satisfaction. Using the Truth and Bias Model of Judgment, we found that perceivers generally underestimated their partner's gratitude, and lower perceptions of gratitude were related to lower perceiver satisfaction. Perceivers reported greater satisfaction when they assumed their partner's gratitude was similar to their own. Partners reported greater satisfaction when perceivers accurately gauged their partners' gratitude experience (but not expression) and lower satisfaction when perceivers underestimated their gratitude expression (but not experience). Overall, by decomposing gratitude perceptions into accuracy and bias, we provide insight into how these components differentially relate to relationship satisfaction.
感知伴侣的感激之情对浪漫关系有诸多益处。我们旨在通过将感知分解为准确性和偏差来更好地理解这些关联。具体而言，我们考察了在感知伴侣的感激体验（研究1：205人）和感激表达（研究2：309人）时的准确性和偏差是否与浪漫关系满意度相关。运用判断的真相与偏差模型，我们发现感知者通常低估了伴侣的感激之情，而对感激之情的较低感知与感知者较低的满意度相关。当感知者认为伴侣的感激之情与自己相似时，他们报告的满意度更高。当感知者准确衡量伴侣的感激体验（而非表达）时，伴侣报告的满意度更高；而当感知者低估伴侣的感激表达（而非体验）时，伴侣报告的满意度较低。总体而言，通过将感激感知分解为准确性和偏差，我们深入了解了这些成分如何与关系满意度存在不同的关联。
