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Future Directions for Commitment Research

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As evidenced by this volume, research on commitment has expanded in numerous directions, contributing substantially to our understanding of how and why interpersonal ties are made, maintained, and broken. Through these efforts, scholars interested in interpersonal processes have begun to answer long-standing questions about the stability and fragility of human social connections and by so doing have provided people with many tools with which they might improve, repair, and understand their relationships with others. In order to maintain this progress, however, it is essential that researchers recognize which questions remain to be answered and which areas of prior scholarship should be reexamined. In view of this need, the goal of the present chapter is to provide an outline for future efforts that might further strengthen the empirical and theoretical bases of scholarship on commitment and extend its reach into the broader realm of interpersonal dynamics.

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