intimate relationships benjamin karney

“sociologists and demographers know that a college education nearly doubles the survival rate of marriages; now psychologists need to understand why this is true.” for more than 10 years, karney’s lab has followed hundreds of ethnically and racially diverse heterosexual married couples with varied income levels. the difference between richer and poorer couples is not in what they want, but in their ability to pursue their goals. essentially, their ability to connect and have a good conversation is hampered by …