15In the Chapter on Motivated Reasoning, Your Textbook Authors Review

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15.In the chapter on motivated reasoning, your textbook authors review a number of ways in which partners who feel positive about their relationships can protect those positive feelings from negative information. Given the strategies at their disposal, why do people not continue to feel positively about their relationships regardless of specific experiences and observations? That is, whyÑfrom this perspectiveÑdoes satisfaction decline?