Congratulations to the Relationship Researchers Interest Group award 🏆winners: Bonnie Le for the Caryl E. Rusbult Early Career Award, and Mirna Đurić for the Graduate Student Paper Award! We can’t wait to hear more at the SPSP Close Relationships Preconference! 🎉

We are accepting submissions for data blitz and poster presentations for our 🎉FULL DAY🎉 2026 SPSP Close Relationships Preconference! We encourage presenters to select both data blitz and poster options due to high volumes of submissions. Submit no later than 10/23: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

📣 Attention RRIG graduate students! 📣 Time to submit your applications for the Graduate Student Paper Award (due 09/06/25). We'll tell the winner this fall and you'll be recognized at the 2026 SPSP Close Relationships Preconference in Chicago. Let's gooo! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚨RRIG awards call!🚨 Submit your applications for the Rusbult Early Career Award (due 08/26/25). Deadline is soon! Award recipients will be notified this fall and honored at the 2026 SPSP Close Relationships Preconference in Chicago. Tell your friends!
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One more week to apply to join RRIG as a grad student, junior, or senior member!

We're recruiting new RRIG grad student, junior, and senior committee members! Join @rosieshrout.bsky.social, Kori Krueger, @bogolsky.bsky.social, Judith Gere, and Laura Machia to plan the SPSP close relationships preconference! Applications due May 5th. Please share widely!

Congratulations @erinhughes.bsky.social for winning the Close Relationships grad student paper award 🏆Her work shows that avoidantly attached folks overestimate how much they’ll lose parts of themselves when in relationships. #SPSP2025 #spspcloserels

I included these slides in a talk recently. I think it went well? #SPSP2025 #spspcloserels

@lydiaemery.bsky.social gave an excellent talk with concrete tips on how to recruit low SES couples. Building trust and flexibility are 🔑 (recognizing that folks may not trust researchers/institutions and may not want to come into your lab)
#SPSP2025 #spspcloserels

Huge congrats to @chops310.bsky.social for winning the Rusbult early career award. #SPSP2025 #spspcloserels

TeKisha Rice Wallace reminded us to consider how the personal, professional and political intersect in her great talk on Black Americans’ close relationships.

Harry Reis reminding us that our relationship 💕theories are getting old. #SPSP2025 #spspcloserels

There is nothing as useful as a good shiny app— And here’s one for illustrating the effects of careless responding! #SPSPCloseRels @brettmurpsych.bsky.social

The important data being presented at #SPSPCloseRels congrats @chops310.bsky.social on your well-deserved award!

We are excited to see you tomorrow! Get ready for some stairs!

We are excited for the @spspnews.bsky.social Close Relationships Preconference💞 on Thursday. Such a great line-up of speakers! @chops310.bsky.social @lydiaemery.bsky.social @brettmurpsych.bsky.social