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49 Davis and Leo, “Strategies for Preventing False Confessions…,” p. 145; note 41. In Canada, the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Heads of Prosecutions Committee established a Working Group on the Prevention of Miscarriages of Justice. Their Report on the Prevention of Miscarriages of Justice, released January 2005, is available at http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/ dept/pub/hop/.
50 Thomas Vanes, “Let DNA Close Door on Doubt in Murder Cases,” the Los Angeles Times op-ed, July 28, 2003.
CHAPTER 6
Love’s Assassin: Self-justification in Marriage
1 John Butler Yeats to his son William, November 5, 1917. In Richard J. Finneran, George M. Harper, and William M. Murphy (eds.), Letters to W. B. Yeats, Vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 338.
2 Andrew Christensen and Neil S. Jacobson (2000), Reconcilable Differences. New York: Guilford. We have taken excerpts from the story of Debra and Frank at the opening of chapter 1, pp. 1–7.
3 See Neil S. Jacobson and Andrew Christensen (1998), Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy: A Therapist’s Guide to Transforming Relationships. New York: W. W. Norton.
4 Christensen and Jacobson, Reconcilable Differences, p. 9; note 2.
5 There is a very large body of research on the way a couple’s attributions about each other affect their feelings about each other and the course of their marriage. See, for example, Adam Davey, Frank D. Fincham, Steven R. H. Beach, and Gene H. Brody (2001), “Attributions in Marriage: Examining the Entailment Model in Dyadic Context,” Journal of Family Psychology, 15, pp. 721–734; Thomas N. Bradbury and Frank D. Fincham (1992), “Attributions and Behavior in Marital Interaction,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, pp. 613–628; and Benjamin R. Karney and Thomas N. Bradbury (2000), “Attributions in Marriage: State or Trait? A Growth Curve Analysis,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 295–309.
6 June P. Tangney, Patricia E. Wagner, Deborah Hill-Barlow, et al. (1996), “Relation of Shame and Guilt to Constructive versus Destructive Responses to Anger Across the Lifespan,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 797–809.
7 John Gottman (1994), Why Marriages Succeed or Fail. New York: Simon & Schuster. Fred and Ingrid are on p. 69.
8 See, for example, Benjamin R. Karney and Thomas N. Bradbury (1995), “The Longitudinal Course of Marital Quality and Stability: A Review of Theory, Method, and Research,” Psychological Bulletin, 118, pp. 3–34; and Frank D. Fincham, Gordon T. Harold, and Susan Gano-Phillips (2000), “The Longitudinal Relation between Attributions and Marital Satisfaction: Direction of Effects and Role of Efficacy Expectations,” Journal of Family Psychology, 14, pp. 267–285.
9 Gottman, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, p. 57; note 7.
10 Quoted in Ayala M. Pines (1986), “Marriage,” in C. Tavris (ed.), Every-Woman’s Emotional Well-Being. New York: Doubleday. Ellen’s story is on p. 191; Donna and her “hate book” are on pp. 190–191.
11 Julie Schwartz Gottman (ed.) (2004), The Marriage Clinic Casebook. New York: W. W. Norton. The story of this couple is in chapter 4, “Extramarital Affairs: The Pearl in the Oyster,” by Julie Gottman, p. 50.
12 John Gottman, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, p. 127; for his description of the fifty-six couples, see p. 128; note 7.
13 Donald T. Saposnek and Chip Rose (1990), “The Psychology of Divorce,” in D. L. Crumbley and N. G. Apostolou (eds.), Handbook of Financial Planning for Divorce and Separation. New York: John Wiley. Their article is available online at http://www.mediate.com/articles/saporo.cfm. For a classic study of the ways that couples reconstruct their memories of their