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 Key figures: John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Robert LevensonStarting in the 1970s, John Gottman and Robert Levenson began to study couples in conflict. Starting at the University of Illinois and later at the University of Washington, they conducted several longitudinal studies that eventually involved the psychophysiological measurement of couples in distress. They started with a study of sequential patterns in couples and found that couples’ interactions had enormous stability over time, that problems never really got resolved, and ultimately that there were patterns of interaction that predicted divorce just as there were patterns that characterized happy relationships. In the 1990s, John Gottman and his wife, Julie Schwartz Gottman, formed the Gottman Institute in Seattle, Washington. Their couples work is an example of translational research that involves the use of scientific data in the development of effective couples relationships.