27 Facts About John Gottman

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John Mordechai Gottman was born on April 26,1942 and is an American psychologist, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington.

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John Gottman's work focuses on divorce prediction and marital stability through relationship analyses.

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John Gottman's work has had a major impact on the development of important concepts on social sequence analysis.

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John Gottman was recognized in 2007 as one of the 10 most influential therapists of the past twenty-five years by the Psychotherapy Network.

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John Gottman was born on April 26,1942, in the Dominican Republic to Orthodox Jewish parents.

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John Gottman's father was a rabbi in pre-World War II Vienna.

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John Gottman was educated in a Lubavitch yeshiva elementary school in Brooklyn.

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John Gottman keeps kosher and observes Shabbat, a day dedicated to religious worship and rest.

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John Gottman received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics-Physics from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1962.

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In 1964, John Gottman earned his master's in Mathematics-Psychology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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At Fairleigh Dickinson University, John Gottman worked as an instructor for the mathematics department, a research assistant for the department of physics, and a researcher for the school of engineering.

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John Gottman was a program evaluator and research designer for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

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John Gottman developed multiple models, scales, and formulas to predict marital stability and divorce in couples.

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John Gottman developed "The Gottman Method Couple's Therapy" based on his research findings.

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The goal of The John Gottman Method is to help couples build happy and stable marriages.

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John Gottman conducted a study based on oral interviews with 95 newlywed couples.

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Since John Gottman believed that early married life is a period of adjustment, and perceptions are being formed, he sought to predict marital stability and divorce through couples' perceptions during the first year of marriage.

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In 1998, John Gottman developed a model to predict which newlywed couples would remain married and which would divorce four to six years later.

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John Gottman used couples' perceptions about their marriages and each other to model marital stability or divorce.

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Independent research on the impact of John Gottman's marriage strengthening programs for the general public has further questioned John Gottman couple education programs.

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The largest independent evaluation of a marriage education curriculum developed by John Gottman was conducted by Mathematica Policy Research at nine sites in five states.

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An ongoing study by Manpower Development Research Corporation, known as the Supporting Healthy Marriage Project, is evaluating John Gottman's "Loving Couples, Loving Children" program among low-income, married couples.

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In multiple analyses, John Gottman has shown a plethora of relations and effects in marriage and divorce, some in peer-reviewed publications, while many others appear in John Gottman's own books.

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John Gottman's research noted that there are gender differences related to flooding; specifically that it is a more common experience for men.

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In John Gottman's work, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, he lists the five steps to emotion coaching.

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The John Gottman Method is a therapy approach which focuses on supporting and strengthening couples by utilizing John Gottman's research and his theory which is referred to as The Sound Relationship House.

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John Gottman has published over 190 papers, and is the author or co-author of 40 books, notably:.