Margaret S. Clark This is Me

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1. 1. Association for Psychological Science: Journals

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   Published on: 5/1/2008   Last Visited: 5/1/2008

   Margaret Clark, Yale University

2. 2. www.goodhousekeeping.com

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   Published on: 6/30/2007   Last Visited: 6/30/2007

   Here's the upside of feeling the way we do: Guilt acts as our inner watchdog, says Margaret Clark, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Yale University who studies guilt and close relationships. We have responsibilities to other people, and if we fail to perform as we should, we feel crummy. "In a healthy situation, guilt prompts us to correct our actions or express our regrets," says Clark.

3. 3. KRT Wire | 06/13/2006 | `Love-hate relationships' may be a sign of low self-esteem

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   Published on: 6/13/2006   Last Visited: 6/14/2006

   The findings could help couples and families in relationships in which attitudes toward loved ones swing wildly, said Yale psychologist Margaret Clark, the lead researcher in the study.
   
   Love-hate relationships, she said, are "likely to be very disconcerting for partners. They can do a small thing, good or bad, perhaps, and produce large swings in a partner's views, and they're probably baffled as to why. It could lead to partner insecurity."
   
   To investigate love-hate relationships, Clark and her research team asked participants to take a widely used psychological measure called the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale.
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   Clark theorized that people with higher self-esteem were better at integrating positive and negative feelings about people in their minds. People with lower self-esteem, she thought, were more likely to store positive and negative feelings separately in their heads and more likely to get caught in the love-hate trap.
   
   To explore that theory, Clark and Steven Graham, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, came up with a test.
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   "It wasn't that people (with low self-esteem) had more negative views of partners - they didn't - but when the adjectives alternated good, bad, good, bad, people lower in self-esteem took a longer time to respond because they had to switch stores," Clark said.
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   Clark said she didn't think "all-or-nothing" thinking was the sole factor in poor relationships.
   
   "Low trust in others' acceptance in the first place gives rise to other behaviors that are not good for relationships," she said.
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   From: "Self-Esteem and Organization of Valenced Information About Others: The Jekyll and Hyde-ing of Relationship Partners," a study by Margaret S. Clark, Yale University, and Steven M. Graham, Carnegie Mellon University.