Publications

Emery, L. F., McGorray, E. L., Hughes, E. K., & Elnakouri, A. (in press). Merging in close relationships. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Hughes, E. K., Emery, L. F., McGorray, E. L., Gardner, W. L., & Finkel, E. J. (2025). The delusion of the disappearing self? Attachment avoidance and the experience of externally invisible self-loss in romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. [download]

Hughes, E. K., Slotter, E. B., & Emery, L. F. (2023). Expanding me, loving us: Self-expansion preferences, experiences, and romantic relationship commitment. Self and Identity, 22(2), 227-246. [download]

Hughes, E.K. (2022). Validating students’ diverse identities. In Clem, S. (Ed.), Exploring how we teach: Lived experiences, lessons, and research for graduate students by graduate students. University Press of Colorado, Colorado. [link]

Hughes, E.K., Slotter, E.B., & Lewandowski, G.W., Jr. (2020). Expanding who I am: Validating the preferences for self-expansion scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 102, 792-803. [download]

Slotter, E.B. & Hughes, E.K. (2020). Antecedents to relational self-change. In Mattingly, B.A., McIntyre, K.P., & Lewandowski, G.W. (Eds.), Interpersonal Relationships and the Self-Concept (pp. 21-36), Springer International Publishing, New York, NY.

Tomlinson, J.M., Hughes, E.K., Lewandowski, G.W., Jr., Aron, A., & Geyer, R. (2019). Do shared self-expanding activities have to be physically arousing? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36(9), 2781-2801. [download]