Sanford, K. (2006). Communication during marital conflict: When couples alter their appraisal, they change their behavior. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 256-265.

Sanford, K. (2005). Attributions and anger in early marriage: Wives are event-dependent and husbands are schematic. Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 180-188.

Kockler, T. R., Stanford, M. S., Nelson, C. E., Meloy, J. R., and Sanford, K. (2006). Characterizing aggressive behavior in a forensic population. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76, 80-85.

Sanford, K. & Rowatt, W. (2004). When is negative emotion positive for relationships? An investigation of married couples and roommates. Personal Relationships, 11, 329-354.

Sanford. K. (2003). Problem solving conversations in marriage: Does it matter what topics couples discuss? Personal Relationships, 10, 97-112 .

Sanford, K. (2003). Expectancies and communication behavior in marriage: Distinguishing proximal-level effects from distal-level effects. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 20, 391-402.

Huprich, S. K., Sanford, K., & Smith, M. (2002). Psychometric evaluation of the Depressive Personality Disorder Inventory. Journal of Personality Disorders, 16, 255-269.

Sanford, K., Bingham, C. R., & Zucker, R. A. (1999). Validity issues with the Family Environment Scale: Psychometric resolution and research application with alcoholic families. Psychological Assessment, 11, 315-325.

Sanford, K. (1998). Memories of feeling misunderstood and a schema of partner empathic responding: New scales for marital research. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 15, 490-501.

Sanford, K. (1997). Two dimensions of adult attachment: Further validation. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 14, 133-143.

Frank, S. J., Van Egeren, L. A., Paul, J. S., Poorman, M. O., Sanford, K., Williams, O. B., & Field, D. T. (1997). Measuring self-critical and interpersonal preoccupations in an adolescent inpatient sample. Psychological Assessment, 9, 185-195.

Zucker, R. A., Ellis, D. A., Fitzgerald, H. E., Bingham, C. R., & Sanford, K. (1996). Other evidence for at least two alcoholisms II: Life course variation in antisociality and heterogeneity of alcoholic outcome. Development and Psychopathology, 8, 831-848.