Positive psychologists focus on flourishing relationships and what makes them successful. John Harvey explored how mindfulness and understanding between partners can enhance relationships. His model shows how closeness is built through behaviors that help partners achieve their goals. John Guttmann also studied relationships and can predict their success with 94% accuracy based on brief interactions. He found that a ratio of 5 positive interactions for every 1 negative one leads to healthy, lasting relationships. Guttmann's research aims to move couples from conflict to comfort through appreciation and responsibility.

2. FLOURISHING RELATIONSHIPS
BY
ZARQA REHMAN
M.PHIL PSYCHOLOGY
1ST SEMESTER

3. Positive psychology:
 Positive psychology is grounded in a belief
that people want to lead meaningful and
fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within
them and to enhance their experiences of
love , work and play.

4. Positive psychologists focus on
flourished relationships…
 Positive psychologists specializing in close
relationships because
 According to Positive psychologists a person
who has more flourished relationships have
more positivity

5. JOHN H.HARVEY
 Harvey was a social psychologist. He explored
what makes existing relationships flourish
and what skills can be taught directly to
partners to enhance their interpersonal
connections.

6. Building a Mindful Relationship
Connection
 Well-minded relationships are healthy and
long lasting.This belief led social psychologist
John Harvey and his colleagues to develop a
Basic components model of minding
relationships.
 This model shows how closeness or the
satisfaction and relationship behaviors that
contribute to one another's goals in life, may
be enhanced.

7. Harvey's Relationship Enhancing
Guidance
Basic components to enhance interpersonal
Relationships.
 Knowing and being known
 Making relationship-Enhancing attributions
for behaviors
 Accepting and Respecting
 Maintaining reciprocity and continuity in
minding

8. Professor John Guttmann
 He is the doctor of love
 He is an internationally known researcher
 He’s popularized his findings in a string of
best selling book
“The seven principles for making marriage
work”
 Guttmann is able to predict the ultimate fate
of the pair with over 94% accuracy

9. CREATING A CULTURE OF
APPRECIATION
 John Guttmann has spent a lifetime “THIN-
SLICING” relationship behavior.
 He measures bodily sensations of partners
 Reads the faces of husbands and wives as
they interact
 He watches people talk about difficult issues
 He dissects every aspect of exchange

10. Cont…
 Guttmann has become so much good in his
craft that he can use his analysis of brief
interactions to predict relationship success
(divorce v/s continued marriage) with 94%
accuracy.
 He achieved this feat of prediction by
studying thousands of married couples across
many years of their relationships

11. Standard research protocol
involves:
 Husband and wife entering a “love lab”
 Engaging in 15 min conversation
(closely observed by researcher)
 Monitored by blood pressure and other
devices
 Observations of couples derived with the
assistance of mathematicians who helped
him discover what is referred to as the “Magic
ratio” for marriages

12. Cont…
 5 positive reactions and 1 negative interaction
are needed to maintain healthy relationship.
 5:1 healthy relationship
 1:1 divorce is confirmed

13. Cont…
 He has done decades of researches and his
“SOUND MARITAL HOUSE” theory,
Guttmann and colleagues developed a
multidimensional approach to couples
counseling that moves partners from conflict
to comfortable exchanges.

14. Goal of therapy:
 The goals of therapy include the
enhancement of social skills, awareness of
interpersonal difficult issues, acceptance of
responsibility and self soothing.

15. Seven Principles For Making
Marriage Work(book)
 Positive reception of partner and partners
behavior should promotes
 Culture of appreciation helps to establish
positive environment
 Expressing gratitude (saying thanks for
small behaviors that often go unnoticed)

16. Cont…
 Makes a partner feel valued for his or her
daily effort (e.g. washing dishes, driving car)
 Sharing appreciations for small
favors(making a coworker feel welcome in
the home)
 Sacrifices (remembering a least favorite in-
laws birthday)
 Honors a partners contributions to the
relationship and family.