Game Theory of Marriage 1 Summary More than 2 million couples are married each year in the United States, but nearly half of these marriages will divorce. Given the high divorce rate, the use of pre-marriage contracts (also referred to as premarriage contracts in this specification) may also be considered high. But some people enter that Samuel Johnson's so-called 'hope is better than experience' while only 5 to 10% of married couple before marriage have signed a pre-marriage contract. This article is about to explain this paradox
Game Theory of Marriage 1 Summary More than 2 million couples are married each year in the United States, but nearly half of these marriages will divorce. Given the high divorce rate, the use of pre-marriage contracts (also referred to as premarriage contracts in this specification) may also be considered high. However, while only 5 to 10% of married couple before marriage have signed a pre-marriage contract, some people enter Samuel Johnson's "hope over experience". This article tries to explain the paradox,
After studying husband and wife for many years, psychologist John Gottman proposed a "magic ratio" theory of successful marriage. The theory thinks that for a marriage to succeed, the couple must average the ratio of five positive interactions to one negative interaction. When the ratio becomes 1: 1, divorce is likely to occur. Interpersonal relationships related to negative relationships include criticism, contempt, defense, and obstruction. As time goes on, treatment aims to transform these interpersonal relationship strategies into more aggressive strategies, including complaints, appreciation, acceptance of responsibility and self-peace. Likewise, relationship partners can incorporate positive elements into difficult subjects to avoid emotional disjunction
Group tension and conflict In the case of a serious group conflict, conditions of deterioration of interpersonal relationship (IVA) usually exist. Several assumptions have been made for this situation from both therapeutic theory and interpersonal theory perspectives. Since they introduce some new ideas, they will be explained in more detail. For our current purpose, we already have a condition (IVA), a defensive behavior and a representation between X and Y and Z, with group relationships in which different members of the group or different members increase with each other It can be assumed. Subgroups represented by X, Y, and Z