Annika From

Annika From

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Annika From is a postdoctoral researcher studying romantic relationships.

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Both overwhelmed or in it together? Similarity in COVID-19-related stress and romantic relationship quality

Published in Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2023

Stress tends to be negatively associated with romantic relationship quality, but shared stress can bond romantic partners and may actually have a positive effect on relationships. Thus, are similar levels of pandemic-related stress during the COVID-19 pandemic—a time of high stress for many couples—associated with better or worse relationship quality? In this study, we investigated whether similarity in COVID-19-related stress was associated with romantic relationship outcomes in two dyadic samples.

Recommended citation: From, A., Luerssen, A., & Gordon, A. M. (2023). Both overwhelmed or in it together? Similarity in COVID-19-related stress and romantic relationship quality. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(8), e12789. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12789.
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Partner support behaviors and relationship quality in interracial and intraracial Black romantic relationships

Published in Personal Relationships, 2024

A convergent, mixed-methods design was used to understand associations between partner behaviors and relationship quality among people in interracial and intraracial romantic relationships. Participants who reported higher partner responsiveness, more supportive partner responses to their stress, better overall dyadic coping, and fewer unsupportive partner responses to their stress reported higher relationship quality. The strength of the associations for perceived partner responsiveness and partner responses to stress with relationship quality did not differ based on the racial composition of the relationship. Qualitative responses revealed additional support processes and barriers to support that may be unique to different relationship compositions.

Recommended citation: From, A., Luerssen, A., & Gordon, A. M. (2023). Both overwhelmed or in it together? Similarity in COVID-19-related stress and romantic relationship quality. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(8), e12789. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12789
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I love you, but I hate your politics: Antecedents and consequences of political dissimilarity in romantic relationships.

Published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2024

Amid heightened political polarization in the United States, have politics worked their way into the bedroom? We drew upon 11 data sets with over 4,000 individuals (including more than 500 couples) to test four preregistered research questions about the prevalence, correlates, consequences, and potential buffers of political dissimilarity in modern-day relationships.

Recommended citation: Gordon, A. M., Luciani, M., & From, A. (2025). I love you, but I hate your politics: Antecedents and consequences of political dissimilarity in romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 42(10), 2780-2802. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075251349720.
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Does similarity matter for romantic relationships? A scoping review

Published in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2025

This scoping review seeks to integrate disparate research on the role of similarity in romantic relationships, a topic of long-standing interest among researchers and popular culture alike. We offer a synthesis of 339 articles measuring similarity and relationship outcomes in established romantic relationships. We report trends in extant research regarding domains of similarity, methods of calculating similarity, and sample characteristics.

Recommended citation: From, A., Diamond, E. S., Kafaee, N., Reynaga, M., Edelstein, R. S., & Gordon, A. M.(2025). Does similarity matter for romantic relationships? A scoping review. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 4210, 2780-2802, https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075251349720
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Do technological advances enable relationship ‘forecasting’? Considerations and recommendations.

Published in American Psychologist, 2025

Given the importance of high-quality romantic relationships for health and well-being, researchers have spent decades examining factors that promote them. However, making more targeted predictions for particular groups of people or even specific couples—with a meaningful degree of accuracy—remains challenging. We argue that the field is now at a pivotal moment, as technological advances are transforming what is possible.

Recommended citation: Gordon, A. M., Thorson, K. T., Jolink, T. A., From, A., Diamond, E., & Segal, N. B. (2025). Do technological advances enable relationship “forecasting”? Considerations and recommendations. American Psychologist, 80(9), 1431-1443. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001632.
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Testosterone changes in couples in response to a caregiving task with an infant simulator.

Published in Human Nature, 2026

In the current study, we assessed the role of caregiving in testosterone reactivity by examining whether and how testosterone changed in romantic partners as they jointly cared for an “infant simulator,” a lifelike doll designed to mimic many of the behaviors of a real infant. Our findings suggest that those with more caregiving experience or who had more positive expectations about parenting were more easily able to lean into nurturance, perhaps leading to testosterone declines.

Recommended citation: Brandon, R., From, A., Reynaga, M., Devine, H., Gordon, A. M., & Edelstein, R. S. (2026). Testosterone changes in couples in response to a caregiving task with an infant simulator. Human Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-026-09520-5.
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