That is lesson 2 done.
Criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling, with the evidence stated honestly.
Anything you wrote in this lesson is in your notebook, on this device only.
Where this lesson comes from
- Gottman JM, Levenson RW (1992). Marital processes predictive of later dissolution: behavior, physiology, and health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63(2), 221 to 233. Also drawn on: Gottman JM, Coan J, Carrere S, Swanson C (1998), Predicting marital happiness and stability from newlywed interactions, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60(1), 5 to 22, doi 10.2307/353438; and Gottman JM, Levenson RW (2000), The timing of divorce, Journal of Marriage and Family, 62(3), 737 to 745, doi 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2000.00737.x.
- Heyman RE, Slep AMS (2001). The hazards of predicting divorce without crossvalidation. Journal of Marriage and Family, 63(2), 473 to 479. The reason no prediction accuracy figure appears anywhere in this course. The Gottman Institute's own published research FAQ, fetched from gottman.com on 4 September 2026, concedes that statements about the 94 percent accuracy rate have become a source of confusion, and that the correct claim is that a couple is behaving like the couples in the group that went on to divorce in those studies.
- Stanley SM, Bradbury TN, Markman HJ (2000). Structural flaws in the bridge from basic research on marriage to interventions for couples. Journal of Marriage and Family, 62(1), 256 to 264.