Walker, D. L., Bacev-Giles, C., & Harasymchuk, C. (2023). Barriers to Participating in Self-Expanding Relationship Activities and the Role of Growth and Destiny Beliefs. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 17(2), 180-196. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.9307
McCoy, E., Lonn, A., & Harasymchuk, C. (2023). Playfulness as a protective factor against loneliness and boredom in single people living alone during the COVID-19 lockdown. Leisure Sciences. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2023.2201584
Harasymchuk, C., Regan, P., & Sprecher, S. (2023). Desire — The pursuit of physical, psychological, interpersonal (and sexual) pleasure. In M. H. Jacobsen’s (Ed.) Exploring Emotions in Social Life, Routledge.
Shoikhedbrod, A., Rosen, N. O., Corsini-Munt, S., Harasymchuk, C., Impett, E. A., & Muise, A. (2023). Being responsive and self-determined when it comes to sex: How and why sxexual motivation is associated with satisfaction and desire in romantic relationships. The Journal of Sex Research, 60(8),1113-1125. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2022.2130132
Peetz, J., Harasymchuk, C., & Aknin, L. B. (2022). Sources of Strain for Women’s Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Impacts of COVID-19 on Women in Canada, edited by Jennifer Robson and Lindsay M. Tedds. Royal Society of Canada.
Harasymchuk, C., Lonn, A., Impett, E. A., & Muise, A. (2022). Relational boredom as an obstacle for engaging in exciting shared activities.Personal Relationships, 29, 350-365. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.1242
Fehr, B., & Harasymchuk, C. (2022). Conceptions and the experience of friendship in underrepresented groups. Personal Relationships, 29, 451-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12431
Johnson, M. D., Lavner, J. A., Muise, A., Mund, M., Neyer, F. J., Park, Y., Harasymchuk, C., & Impett, E. A. (2022). Women and men are the barometers of relationships: Testing the predictive power of women’s and men’s relationship satisfaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(33), e2209460119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209460119
Carswell, K. L., Muise, A., Harasymchuk, C., Horne, R. M., Visserman, M. L., & Impett, E. A. (2022). Growing desire or growing apart? Consequences of personal self-expansion for romantic passion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 121(2), 354-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000357
Horne, R. M., Raposo, S., Muise, A., Harasymchuk, C., & Impett, E. A. (2022). Dialing up desire and dampening disinterest: Regulating sexual desire in the bedroom and sexual and relationship well-being. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(6), 1551-1573. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211054781
Harasymchuk, C., Walker, D. L., Muise, A., & Impett, E. A. (2021). Planning date nights that promote closeness: The roles of relationship goals and self-expansion. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 38(5), 1692-1709. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211000436
Kim, J. J., Muise, A., Barranti, M., Mark, K. P., Rosen, N. O., Harasymchuk, C., & Impett, E. (2021). Are couples more satisfied when they match in sexual desire? New insights from response surface analyses. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(4), 487-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620926770
Harasymchuk C., Peetz J., Fehr B., & Chowdhury S. (2020). Worn out relationship? The role of expectations in judgments of relational boredom. Personal Relationships. 28(1), 80-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12354
(2020). Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Harasymchuk, C., Muise, A., Bacev-Giles, C., Gere, J., & Impett, E. (2020). Broadening your horizon one day at a time: The role of daily approach relationship goals in shaping self-expansion. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37, 1910-1926. doi: 10.1177/0265407520911202
Harasymchuk, C., Muise, A., Bacev-Giles, C., Gere, J., & Impett, E. A. (2019). Broadening your horizon one day at a time: Relationship goals and exciting activities as daily antecedents of relational self-expansion. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1-17. doi: 10.1177/0265407520911202
Impett, E. A., Muise, A., & Harasymchuk, C. (2019). Giving in the bedroom: The costs and benefits of responding to a partner’s sexual needs in daily life. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36, 2455-2473. doi: 10.1177/0265407518787349
Muise, A., Harasymchuk, C., Day, Lisa C., Bacev-Giles, C., Gere, J., & Impett, E.A. (2019). Broadening your horizons: Self-expanding activities promote desire and satisfaction in established romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 237-258. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000148
Harasymchuk, C. & Fehr, B. (2018). Responses to dissatisfaction in friendships and romantic relationships: An interpersonal Script Analysis. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. DOI: 10.1177/0265407518769451
Fehr, B., & Harasymchuk, C. (2018). The role of friendships in well-being. In J. Maddux’s (Ed.). Social psychological foundations of well-being and life-satisfaction. New York, Ny: Taylor & Francis.
Paynter, A. & Harasymchuk, C. (Winter 2017). Attachment anxiety as a barrier to the benefits of novel couple activities, Journal sur l’identité, les Relations Interpersonnelles et les Relations Intergroupes (JIRIR).
Fehr, B. & Harasymchuk C. (2017). A prototype matching model of satisfaction in same-sex friendships. Personal Relationships, 24, 683-693.
Harasymchuk C., Cloutier, A., Peetz, J., & Lebreton, J. (2016). Spicing things up?: Relational boredom and shared couple activities. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 0265407516660216.
Brazeau, H. & Harasymchuk, C. (2015). Long-distance vs. geographically-close relationships: The role of maintenance and attachment styles in shaping relationship quality, Journal sur l’Identité, les Relations Interpersonnelles et les Relations Intergroupes (JIRIRI), accepted for publication.
Fehr, B., Harasymchuk, C., & Sprecher, S. (2014). Compassionate love in romantic relationships: A review and some new findings, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 31, 575-600.
Harasymchuk, C., & Fehr, B., (2013). A prototype based analysis of relational boredom, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30, 627-646.
Harasymchuk, C., & Fehr, B. (2012). Development of a prototype-based measure of relational boredom, Personal Relationships, 19, 162-181.
Davis, C. G., Harasymchuk, C., & Wohl, M. J. A. (2012). Finding meaning in a traumatic loss: A families approach. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 25, 142-149.
Harasymchuk, C., & Fehr, B. (2010). A script analysis of relational boredom: Causes, feelings, and coping strategies, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 29, 988-1019.
Fehr, B., & Harasymchuk, C. (2009). Hurt feelings in adult friendships. In A. Vangelisti (Ed.), Feeling hurt in close relationships (pp. 288-312) New York: Cambridge University Press.
Strong, G., & Harasymchuk, C. (2009). Boredom in relationships. In H. Reis and S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human relationships (pp. 186-188). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Fehr, B., & Harasymchuk, C. (2005). The experience of emotion in close relationships: Toward an integration of the emotion-in-relationships and interpersonal scripts models. Personal Relationships, 12, 181-196.
Morry, M., & Harasymchuk, C. (2005). Perceptions of locus of control and satisfaction in friendships: The impact of problem-solving strategies. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 22, 183-206.
RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED TO LEARNED SOCIETIES (since 2015)
Lonn, A., & Harasymchuk, C. (2022, October). Examining the relationship between perceived stress and disclosure to aspects of the social network. [Oral Presentation]. Canadian Human Connection Virtual Conference 2022.
Harasymchuk, C., Lonn, A., & Fehr, B. (2022, September). The role of stress and shared leisure time in shaping perceptions of four types of love. [Oral Presentation]. The Love Consortium Love Conference 2022. Durham, North Carolina.
Lonn, A., & Harasymchuk, C. (2022, September). Love predicting relational quality and buffering relational decline: An exploratory analysis of the four factor model of love. [Poster presentation]. The Love Consortium Love Conference 2022. Durham, North Carolina.
Lonn, A., McCoy, E., Lynch, J., Ogden, M., Harasymchuk, C., & Fehr, B. (2022, July). Best friendship quality and well-being of socially isolated people: The role of self-expansion. [Poster presentation]. International Association for Relationship Research 2022 Virtual Conference.
Lonn, A., & Harasymchuk, C. (2022, July). Shared stress and affiliation in stranger dyads: An experimental analysis. [Oral Presentation]. International Association for Relationship Research 2022 Virtual Conference.
Lonn, A., McCoy, E., Fehr, B., & Harasymchuk, C. (2022, July). The role of social support in buffering stress for socially isolated people. [Poster presentation]. International Association for Relationship Research 2022 Virtual Conference.
McCoy, E., Lonn, A., Purcell, H., Debelle, L., Timms, K., & Harasymchuk, C. (2022, July). Well-being in a socially isolated sample: The role of playfulness within social networks. [Poster presentation]. International Association for Relationship Research 2022 Virtual Conference.
Lonn, A., Fehr, B., & Harasymchuk, C. (2022, June). Friendship functions and social support: The role of attachment style. [Oral Presentation]. Canadian Psychology Association 2022 Conference, Social/Personality Psychology Preconference. Calgary, Alberta.
Hebert, M, Lonn, A., & Harasymchuk, C. (2021, June). Challenges for interdependent people in the COVID-19 context [Poster presentation]. CPA 2021 Virtual Convention.
Lonn, A., & Harasymchuk, C. (2021, June). Daily self-expansion and intimate relationship quality: The role of shared activity quality [Poster presentation]. Life Improvement Science 2021 Virtual Inaugural Conference.
Lonn, A., Kolbuszewska, M., & Harasymchuk, C. (2021, June). Relational boredom, relational decline and the role of chronic stress during the COVID-19 pandemic [Poster presentation]. CPA 2021 Virtual Convention.
Kolbuszewska, M., Lonn, A., & Harasymchuk, C. (2021, June). Stress leads to lower needs satisfaction and more disconnect from romantic partners during COVID-19 [Poster presentation]. CPA 2021 Virtual Convention.
Royle, C., Lonn, A., Hebert, M. & Harasymchuk, C. (2020, December). Anxious attachment and close friendship satisfaction during Covid-19: The role of self-disclosure [Poster presentation]. ICP 2020 Virtual Convention.
Harasymchuk, C., Muise, M., Bacev-Giles, C., and Impett, E. (2018, July). Growth in relationships: The role of approach relationship goals and exciting shared activities in promoting increased daily self-expansion. Paper accepted for presentation at the International Association for Relationship Research conference, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Walker, D., & Harasymchuk, C. (2017, June). Plan a date!: Self-expanding relationship activities and the role of relationship goals. Talk presented at the meeting of the International Association for Relationship Research, Syracuse, N.Y.
Harasymchuk, C., Cloutier, A., Peetz, J., Lebreton, J., & Bacev-Giles, C. (2017, June). Spicing up the relationship?: Responses to relational boredom and associated challenges. Talk presented at the meeting of the International Association for Relationship Research, Syracuse, N.Y.
Bacev-Giles, C. & Harasymchuk, C. (2016, January). Relational insecurity and uncertainty as challenges to the engagement in novel couple activities. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, San Diego, California.
Bacev-Giles, C. & Harasymchuk, C. (2015, June). Just another “bump” on the road: Challenges and individual differences affecting the engagement of shared novel activities. Paper presented in symposium at the Canadian Psychological Association conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
Boettcher, J. & Harasymchuk, C. (2015, June). Cultural differences in relationship ideals and the consequences of falling short of those ideals. Paper presented in symposium at the Canadian Psychological Association conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
Cloutier, A. & Harasymchuk, C. (2015, June). So what do we do next? An experimental exploration of relational boredom. Paper presented in symposium at the Canadian Psychological Association conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
Lebreton, J., & Harasymchuk, C. (2015, June). Uncertainty in close relationships and experiences of relational boredom. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
Bacev-Giles, C., & Harasymchuk, C. (2015, February). Trying something new: Frequency, cues, and challenges associated with the engagement of novel couple activities. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, Long Beach, California.
Fehr, B., & Harasymchuk, C. (2015, February). Compassionate love in intimate relationships. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, Long Beach, California.