Why Marriages Change and What to Do About It

Benjamin Karney is a Professor and Chair of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an adjunct behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation.  His research examines intimate relationships, especially marriage, and focuses on how relationships are facilitated or constrained by the contexts in which they take place. Currently, he leads the Los Angeles Project on Newlywed Development (LAPOND), a longitudinal study of low-income couples, and co-directs (with Thomas Bradbury) the UCLA Marriage and Close Relationships Lab. He has received the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research, and has twice received the National Council on Family Relation’s Reuben Hill Research and Theory Award for outstanding family science.