| Does couples' communication predict marital satisfaction, or does marital satisfaction predict communication? JA Lavner, BR Karney, TN Bradbury Journal of Marriage and Family 78 (3), 680-694, 2016 | 435 | 2016 |
| Patterns of change in marital satisfaction over the newlywed years JA Lavner, TN Bradbury Journal of Marriage and Family 72 (5), 1171-1187, 2010 | 420 | 2010 |
| Coming to terms with coming out: Review and recommendations for family systems-focused research L Heatherington, JA Lavner Journal of Family Psychology 22 (3), 329-343, 2008 | 340 | 2008 |
| Why do even satisfied newlyweds eventually go on to divorce? JA Lavner, TN Bradbury Journal of Family Psychology 26 (1), 1-10, 2012 | 218 | 2012 |
| How can we improve preventive and educational interventions for intimate relationships? TN Bradbury, JA Lavner Behavior Therapy 43 (1), 113-122, 2012 | 169 | 2012 |
| Incremental change or initial differences? Testing two models of marital deterioration JA Lavner, TN Bradbury, BR Karney Journal of Family Psychology 26 (4), 606-616, 2012 | 136 | 2012 |
| Relationship problems over the early years of marriage: Stability or change? JA Lavner, BR Karney, TN Bradbury Journal of Family Psychology 28 (6), 979-985, 2014 | 112 | 2014 |
| Can gay and lesbian parents promote healthy development in high‐risk children adopted from foster care? JA Lavner, J Waterman, LA Peplau American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 82 (4), 465-472, 2012 | 97 | 2012 |
| Racial discrimination and relationship functioning among African American couples JA Lavner, AW Barton, CM Bryant, SRH Beach Journal of Family Psychology 32 (5), 686-691, 2018 | 95 | 2018 |
| Narcissism and newlywed marriage: Partner characteristics and marital trajectories JA Lavner, J Lamkin, JD Miller, WK Campbell, BR Karney Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment 7 (2), 169-179, 2016 | 95 | 2016 |
| Self-and partner-reported psychopathic traits' relations with couples' communication, marital satisfaction trajectories, and divorce in a longitudinal sample B Weiss, JA Lavner, JD Miller Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment 9 (3), 239-249, 2018 | 86 | 2018 |
| Newlyweds' optimistic forecasts of their marriage: For better or for worse? JA Lavner, BR Karney, TN Bradbury Journal of Family Psychology 27 (4), 531-540, 2013 | 83 | 2013 |
| "Will you complete this survey too?" Differences between individual versus dyadic samples in relationship research AW Barton, JA Lavner, SM Stanley, MD Johnson, GK Rhoades Journal of Family Psychology 34 (2), 196-203, 2020 | 79 | 2020 |
| Workload and marital satisfaction over time: Testing lagged spillover and crossover effects during the newlywed years JA Lavner, MA Clark Journal of Vocational Behavior 101, 67-76, 2017 | 79 | 2017 |
| Parent adjustment over time in gay, lesbian, and heterosexual parent families adopting from foster care JA Lavner, J Waterman, LA Peplau American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 84 (1), 46-53, 2014 | 72 | 2014 |
| Borderline personality disorder symptoms and newlyweds' observed communication, partner characteristics, and longitudinal marital outcomes JA Lavner, J Lamkin, JD Miller Journal of Abnormal Psychology 124 (4), 975-981, 2015 | 71 | 2015 |
| Stress spillover, African Americans’ couple and health outcomes, and the stress-buffering effect of family-centered prevention. AW Barton, SRH Beach, CM Bryant, JA Lavner, GH Brody Journal of Family Psychology 32 (2), 186-196, 2018 | 70 | 2018 |
| Personality change among newlyweds: Patterns, predictors, and associations with marital satisfaction over time JA Lavner, B Weiss, JD Miller, BR Karney Developmental Psychology 54 (6), 1172-1185, 2018 | 67 | 2018 |
| Discussion topic and observed behavior in couples' problem-solving conversations: Do problem severity and topic choice matter? HC Williamson, MA Hanna, JA Lavner, TN Bradbury, BR Karney Journal of Family Psychology 27 (2), 330-335, 2013 | 62 | 2013 |
| Trajectories of marital satisfaction in diverse newlywed couples HC Williamson, JA Lavner Social Psychological and Personality Science 11 (5), 597-604, 2020 | 60 | 2020 |
Thomas BradburyProfessor of Psychology, UCLAVerified email at psych.ucla.edu
