Attractiveness, age, and other physical attributes, are known as _____ by researchers who study online relationship formation.

For some couples, cohabitation may function as:

Greg is a very extraverted person – he is outgoing, warm, and highly social. According to the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model, Greg’s extraversion would be considered:

Most relationship scholars locate the very beginning of a relationship as the moment in which:

Levinger’s (e.g., 1965) Marital Cohesiveness Model proposes that relationship stability is a function both of _____ and _____.

The absence of a close emotional attachment produces _____, whereas the absence of an engaging social network produces _____.

In the U.S., the Defense of Marriage Act:

Many relationship scientists now believe that the most important feature of our species’ evolutionary heritage is selection for:

Rhonda married Race when she was 26. They divorced 2 years later, and Rhonda married Roman. She and Roman divorced 6 years later. Rhonda then met and married Ron, and the two just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Rhonda’s marriage pattern is best described as:

In all but a small percentage of societies, the predominant form of marriage practiced by both men and women is: