The volunteers who found it easier to associate their partner with bad things, and had greater difficulty associating their partner with good things, were more likely to separate over the next year.
"Presumably it's because it's simple and easy to write a prescription and consider a patient case closed rather than investigate further," Polman says.
But it lessens, on the other hand, when we learn that a task was devised which was strictly analogous to the Kendlers' one but much easier for me African males to handle.