People who feel good about their romantic relationship show a stronger positive bias toward the future of the relationship, and a weaker negative bias toward the relationship in the past. These findings, published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, suggest that a person’s current feelings about their relationship are projected onto how they perceive that relationship in the past and future. People tend to be biased toward seeing themselves in a positive light. This bias extends toward a person’s intimate relationships — people tend to perceive their partners and their relatio…
