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Item Investigating the Roles of Verification and Enhancement in Partner Personality Perception on Romantic Relationship Outcomes(December 2023) Knoch, Desiree'; Ackerman, Robert A.; Sasson, Noah J.; Kane, Heidi; Pinkham, Amy; Nelson, JackieThere is debate within the close relationships literature on whether possessing more verifying or more enhancing views of one’s partner is more beneficial for romantic relationship outcomes. Verification theories suggest that relationships benefit when romantic partners hold congruent views of each other; in contrast, enhancement theories hold that it is more beneficial that partners see each other in a positive light, regardless of their strengths and weaknesses. Empirical research has provided mixed evidence for both theories, which may suggest that a combination of verification and enhancement contributes most fully to positive romantic relationship outcomes. Therefore, this research aimed to investigate how verifying and enhanced views of romantic partners’ personality traits across the dimensions of Positive Emotionality, Negative Emotionality, and Constraint may interact in their associations with the relationship outcomes of intimacy and conflict. The participant sample (475 mixed-sex dating and married couples) was taken from six waves of archival data collected as part of the Family Transitions Project. Truth and Bias model analyses were used to determine whether participants displayed verification (in the form of tracking accuracy) and enhancement (in the form of positivity bias) in judgments of their partners’ personality traits over time. Participants did display verification in their perceptions of their partners’ traits over the study period, but there was not sufficient evidence of enhanced perceptions of partner personality traits. Truth and Bias model analyses specified with multilevel structural equation modeling were used to determine whether greater verification of partner personality traits is associated with more positive romantic relationship outcomes. Verification was not found to be associated with intimacy, conflict, or relationship satisfaction. Dyadic response surface analyses were performed to determine whether greater enhancement of partner personality traits is associated with more positive romantic relationship outcomes. Contrary to hypotheses, greater enhancement of partners’ positive personality traits was associated with less intimacy in women and lower relationship quality in men. Further, greater enhancement of partners’ negative personality traits was associated with less intimacy in men. The findings for conflict were mixed: Men reported lower levels of conflict the more they enhanced their partners' negative traits, but reported higher levels of conflict the more their partners enhanced their negative traits. Moderated dyadic response surface analyses were performed to determine whether verification and enhancement interact in their association with romantic relationship outcomes. There was not sufficient evidence to suggest that there is an interaction effect between verification and enhancement on either intimacy or conflict. Overall, the current research provides a novel longitudinal approach to the investigation of verification and enhancement in partner personality perception and suggests that further research is needed to more fully explore how verification and enhancement motivations influence relationship dynamics over time.