FAW: The Study of Close Relationships ,

Caryl Rusbult博士获得了美国国家科学基金会颁发的女性科学家和工程师教师奖，她将继续研究社会交流过程。她正在探索个体维持稳定持续关系的过程。本研究不仅在人际关系领域进行，而且在组织行为学领域进行。她的研究强调了适应相互依赖模式的功能价值。这项工作涉及承诺、对不满的反应、适应过程和组织行为的研究。承诺的研究将包括对虐待关系中的承诺的研究。在研究对不满意的反应时，她将试图找出一种关系的特征和促进不同反应的个人特征。组织行为学研究将考虑鼓励对组织作出承诺的政策。这项工作对组织的维持和衰败、离婚、人际冲突、忽视、社会和解和群体生产力具有重要意义。

With a Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Caryl Rusbult will continue her research into social exchange processes. She is exploring the processes by which individuals maintain stable ongoing relationships. This research is conducted not only in the interpersonal relationships area but also in organizational behavior. Her studies emphasize the functional value of adaptations to patterns of interpendence. This work involves studies of commitment, responses to dissatisfaction, accomodation processes, and organizational behavior. The research on commitment will include the study of commitment in abusive relationships. In studying responses to dissatisfaction, she will try to identify features of a relationship and of individuals that promote different responses. Studies in organizational behavior will consider policies that encourage commitment to the organization. This work has important implications for organizational maintainance and decay, divorce, interpersonal conflict, neglect, social reconciliation, and group productivity.