Steve Drigotas

     
Institution
Johns Hopkins University

Current Position
Senior Lecturer and Adjunct Research Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993

Research Interests
Close Relationships
Intergroup Relations
Interpersonal Processes
Personality

 
Steve Drigotas
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (410) 516-6703
Fax: (410) 516-4478

Steve Drigotas
Professor Drigotas has research interests in close relationships, intergroup competition, friendship networks, secret sharing, and social dilemmas. His teaching interests include introductory psychology, social psychology, research design, group dynamics, and statistics.


Journal Articles:

  • Agnew, C. A., Loving, T. J., & Drigotas, S. M. (2001). Substituting the forest for the trees: Social networks and the prediction of romantic relationship state and fate. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 1042-1057.affirmation and the Michelangelo phenomenon. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 293-323.
  • Drigotas, S. M. (1993). Similarity revisited: A comparison of similarity-attraction versus dissimilarity-repulsion. British Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 365-377.
  • Drigotas, S. M. & Barta, W. (2001). The cheating heart: Scientific explorations of infidelity. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 177-180.
  • Drigotas, S. M., Grey, C. A., & Gentilia, T. (1999). An investment model prediction of dating infidelity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 509-524.
  • Drigotas, S. M., Rusbult, C. E., & Verette, J. (1999). Level of commitment, mutuality of commitment, and couple adjustment in marital relationships. Personal Relationships, 6, 389-409.
  • Drigotas, S. M., Rusbult, C. E., Wieselquist, J., & Whitton, S. (1999). Close partner as sculptor of the ideal self: Behavioral affirmation and the Michelangelo phenomenon. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 293-323.
  • Drigotas, S. M., & Udry, J. R. (1993). Biosocial models of adolescent problem behavior: Extension to panel design. Social Biology, 40, 1-7.
  • Drigotas, S. M., Whitney, G. A., & Rusbult, C. E. (1995). On the peculiarities of loyalty: A diary study of responses to dissatisfaction in everyday life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 596-609.
  • Schopler, J., Insko, C. A., Drigotas, S. M., Wieselquist, J., Pemberton, M.& Cox, C. (1995). The role of identifiability in the reduction of the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 31, 553-574.
  • Van Lange, P. A. M., Rusbult, C. E., Drigotas, S. M., Arriaga, X., Witcher, B., & Cox, C. (1997). Willingness to sacrifice in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 1373-1395.
  • Yovetich, N. A. & Drigotas, S. M. (1999). Secret transmission: A relative intimacy hypothesis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 1135-1146.

Other Publications:

  • Rusbult, C. E., Drigotas, S. M., & Verette, J. (1994). The investment model: An interdependence analysis of commitment processes and relational maintenance phenomena. In D. Canary and L. Stafford (Eds.), Communication and Relational Maintenance, (pp. 115-139). Academic Press.

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