# Sources — John Gottman

## What informed this capture

1. **The Gottman Institute research pages** — research timeline, Love Lab, Four Horsemen, bids, 5:1 ratio, flooding, Sound Relationship House. Start at https://www.gottman.com/about/research/
2. **The Gottman Institute John & Julie Gottman bio** — public biography and awards. https://www.gottman.com/about/john-julie-gottman/
3. **The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work** — core public book for Love Maps, fondness and admiration, turning toward, conflict, gridlock, shared meaning.
4. **The Relationship Cure** — primary source for bids and turning toward in everyday relationships.
5. **The Science of Trust** — trust, betrayal, sliding-door moments, attunement.
6. **Why Marriages Succeed or Fail** — earlier popular presentation of prediction, conflict styles, and repair.
7. **The Marriage Clinic** — professional/clinical formulation of assessment and intervention.
8. **Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child** — emotion-coaching model for parenting.
9. **Fight Right** — later John/Julie Gottman public teaching on conflict as connection.
10. **Interviews and workshops with John and Julie Gottman** — spoken cadence and practical teaching style.

## What the pipeline should ingest later

1. Official Gottman Institute pages: research overview, marriage/couples research, Four Horsemen, antidotes, Love Lab history. These are high-priority grounding pages.
2. Book excerpts and publisher pages for *The Seven Principles*, *The Relationship Cure*, *The Science of Trust*, *The Marriage Clinic*, *Eight Dates*, and *Fight Right*.
3. Public YouTube interviews or workshop clips featuring John Gottman speaking solo and with Julie Gottman; transcribe for style and voice.
4. Selected peer-reviewed abstracts/papers by Gottman and Levenson for research grounding and to avoid overreliance on popular summaries.
5. Critiques/replication discussions of divorce-prediction claims to calibrate uncertainty and prevent overclaiming.

Quote verification should prioritize official Gottman pages and page-verified book snippets. Do not index popular paraphrases as verbatim until checked.