Current Position Department Head and Professor of Psychological Sciences PhD (1994) in Social Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contact Information Address: Purdue University  Department of Psychological Sciences 703 Third Street Rm. PRCE 389 West Lafayette, IN 47907-2081 Phone: (765) 494-6061 Fax: (765) 496-1264 E-mail: agnew@purdue.edu

• Relationship Science at Purdue

• International Association for Relationship Research

Research Interests

Research interests include (1) interpersonal relations, including commitment processes, dissolution processes, and social network interactions and influence; and (2) social psychological dimensions of health behaviors. At times, my research combines these two interests (e.g., how psychological commitment influences health).

Recent Publications

Goodfriend, W., & Agnew, C. R. (in press). Sunken costs and desired plans: Examining different types of investments in close relationships.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Agnew, C. R., Arriaga, X. B., & Wilson, J. E. (2008).  Committed to what? Using the Bases of Relational Commitment Model to understand continuity and changes in social relationships. In J. P. Forgas & J. Fitness (Eds.), Social relationships: Cognitive, affective and motivational processes (pp.147-164). New York: Psychology Press.

Arriaga, X. B., Agnew, C. R., Capezza, N., & Lehmiller, J. J. (2008). The social and physical environment of relationship initiation: An interdependence analysis.  In S. Sprecher, A. Wenzel, & J. Harvey (Eds.), Handbook of relationship initiation (pp.197-215).  New York: Psychology Press.

Etcheverry, P. E., & Agnew, C. R. (2008).  Romantic partner and friend influences on young adult cigarette smoking: Comparing close others’ smoking and injunctive norms over time.  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 313-325.

Lehmiller, J. J., & Agnew, C. R. (2008). Commitment in age-gap heterosexual romantic relationships: A test of evolutionary and socio-cultural predictions.  Psychology of Women Quarterly, 32, 74-82.

Agnew, C. R., Hoffman, A. M., Lehmiller, J. J., & Duncan, N. T. (2007). From the interpersonal to the international: Understanding commitment to the “War on Terror”.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1559-1571.

Lehmiller, J. J., & Agnew, C. R. (2007). Perceived marginalization and the prediction of romantic relationship stability. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 1036-1049.

Tiffany, S. T., Agnew, C. R., Maylath, N. K., Dierker, L., Flaherty, B., Richardson, E., Balster, R., Segress, M. H., Clayton, R., & the Tobacco Etiology Research Network.  (2007).  Smoking in college freshmen: University Project of the Tobacco Etiology Research Network (UpTERN). Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 9 (S4), S611-S625.

Agnew, C. R., & Etcheverry, P. E. (2006). Cognitive interdependence: Considering self-in-relationship.  In K. D. Vohs & E. J. Finkel (Eds.), Self and relationships: Connecting intrapersonal and interpersonal processes  (pp. 274-293). New York: Guilford.

Arriaga, X. B., Reed, J., Goodfriend, W., & Agnew, C. R. (2006). Relationship perceptions and persistence: Do fluctuations in perceived partner commitment undermine dating relationships? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 1045-1065.

Lehmiller, J. J., & Agnew, C. R. (2006). Marginalized relationships: The impact of social disapproval on romantic relationship commitment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 40-51.

Agnew, C. R., Loving, T. J., Le, B., & Goodfriend, W. (2004). Thinking close: Measuring relational closeness as perceived self-other inclusion. In D. Mashek & A. Aron (Eds.), The handbook of closeness and intimacy (pp. 103-115). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Etcheverry, P. E., & Agnew, C. R. (2004). Subjective norms and the prediction of romantic relationship state and fate. Personal Relationships, 11, 409-428.

Le, B., & Agnew, C. R. (2003). Commitment and its theorized determinants: A meta-analysis of the Investment Model. Personal Relationships, 10, 37-57.

Agnew, C. R., Loving, T. J., & Drigotas, S. M. (2001). Substituting the forest for the trees: Social networks and the prediction of romantic relationship state and fate. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 1042-1057.