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Though I personally find it a bit obvious, a team of psychologists from the Kansas State University has recently determined that couple that engage in rewarding conversations experience far less stress and anxiety, as well as increased levels of overall satisfaction.
Team leader Dr. Brenda McDaniel conducted the in... |
10 February 2012
10:55 GMT |
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In case anyone was still wondering, a good marriage revolves around making sacrifices. The trick is to get both members to do the same, in a balanced manner. When getting married, individuals need to be aware that they will absolutely have to make sacrifices, not be faced with the prospect after the ceremony.
I beli... |
3 February 2012
11:08 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Northeastern University and the University of Oxford says that mobile phone data are an abundant gold mine for extracting data on human reproductive strategies, as well as on their relationships and associated behaviors.
The team says that analyzing text message and call patterns can... |
2 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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According to a new study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, it would appear that lonely people tend to shop differently than their peers who are in stable relationships, or married. The research is part of a larger investigation on social networks.The paper also revealed that more peop... |
24 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Intimate relationships are much better off if both partners show roughly the same level of commitment, rather than one of them being strongly committed, and the other, not so much. The conclusions are based on an innovative study carried out in the United States.The researchers used the Minnesota Longitudinal Study o... |
19 May 2011
04:17 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the University of Kansas recently investigated how people interact when they want to enter a relationship, and determined that a little self-awareness goes a long way towards increasing people's chances of finding their better half.According to assistant professor of communication studie... |
1 November 2010
08:03 GMT |
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A team of psychologists from the University of Basel propose that an increased level of ignorance about their partner's preferences is what allows many to go through long-term relationships.Love and compromise have their say in this as well, but being able to ignore a large amount of information about their bett... |
15 October 2010
03:50 GMT |
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People having Internet access at home are more likely to be in a romantic relationship than those without Internet access, a new study presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association said.Michael J. Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Stanford University and the lead autho... |
16 August 2010
10:29 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Brigham Young University in Utah has recently determined that making friends is a very important factor in predicting the life span of individuals. The researchers say that, while things such as exercising and not smoking do have a large influence on the length of one's life span... |
28 July 2010
05:47 GMT |
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People would rather make friends than enemies, because of their natural inclination to socialize and interact in a positive way. The 80 year old psychological theory called the Structural Balance Theory is right and scientists finally proved it thanks to an online open-ended game.The Structural Balance Theory says th... |
20 July 2010
03:32 GMT |
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Scientists announce in a new study that they've uncovered additional evidence for the fact that a good, close relationship between mothers and their children make the latter more likely to have better-quality romantic connections later in life. The role of mothers in their kids' relationships is known to be... |
31 May 2010
02:45 GMT |
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Due to stressful jobs and a thorough lack of personal time, people today tend to want to boost their relationships with the people they love by doing big things, such as going on a cruise, or taking a vacation in an exotic location. While this may indeed be helpful in consolidating some relationships, researchers say... |
24 May 2010
06:16 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that the love mothers show their children may actually be making the young ones more prepared in facing life. The work shows that kids who had warm, loving relationships with their mums were a lot less likely to exhibit large concentrations of inflammation ... |
19 May 2010
02:20 GMT |
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Though it may seem a bit counterintuitive at first, mathematics can indeed explain some aspects of love. A researcher in Spain managed, for instance, to create an advanced theoretical model that is capable of explaining – at least in part – why divorce and break-up rates are continuously rising in the Uni... |
17 May 2010
09:19 GMT |
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In an interesting series of new experiments, scientists from the University of Delaware, in the United States, looked at how jealousy affect men and women's ability to literally see things. In order to do this, they devised a cunning setup in their laboratory, which revealed that this feeling could literally bli... |
15 April 2010
04:34 GMT |
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In a new study, investigators in Canada decided to look at some of the reasons women give for remaining in abusive relationships. For the purpose of the research, these were defined as couples in which the woman's partner or husband acted violently towards her, either physically or emotionally. Usually, you woul... |
14 April 2010
06:58 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, women with children have created a trend in which they place less emphasis on child-rearing, and more importance on their careers. This has led to many of them leaving their children at home with their dads, which also changed the traditional role that fathers have inside families. But an u... |
18 March 2010
10:27 GMT |
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Not once have people in intimate relationships heard the words “be yourself.” Far from being an abstract concept, or just a catchy phrase, the advice may actually be rooted in scientific fact. A group of researchers has recently released the conclusions of a new study they conducted, which has shown that ... |
16 March 2010
05:43 GMT |
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The vast majority of people who have just ended a relationship experience a surprising feeling, which is most often expressed under the terms “I don't know who I am anymore.” According to a recent scientific investigation, they may be spot-on with this statement. Researchers suggest that longer-term ... |
12 March 2010
10:07 GMT |
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One of the things that most people know about the atmosphere is that it contains the air which allows us and many other species to live. Some may know that the atmosphere is also a protective shield from cosmic radiation and solar winds, which would otherwise make Earth a very uncomfortable place to live. But the thi... |
9 March 2010
06:59 GMT |
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As many soap operas have already illustrated, the cliché where a man goes to a pub to drink away his emotions after a fight with his partner is already all too common. When couple members argue, many let slip phrases they do not necessarily mean, and that hurt the other to great extent. Words continue to fly u... |
2 March 2010
11:16 GMT |
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With Valentine's Day knocking at the door for yet another year, many couples around the world are now getting ready to restate their commitment to the people they love. Unlike years before, in 2010, they have a wide variety of means at their disposal, ranging from the classic love letter and cards, to sending el... |
13 February 2010
04:07 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of British Columbia (UCB) state in a working paper that people who are married or in relationships tend to cope better with health shocks than those who are single. The work aimed at figuring out how people cope economically with disability and health problems, the team says. The new inve... |
28 December 2009
11:05 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, mothers and fathers distort the knowledge they pass on to their children considerably and systematically. And we're not talking about religious indoctrination here, which parents practice willingly, but about stretching the “truth” to extensive lengths. Th... |
29 September 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Behavior experts have recently conducted a new scientific investigation on a large group of parents and their grownup children, in an attempt to determine just how much tension really exists between generations, well beyond the age when teenagers are considered to have become adults. During the study, both parents an... |
8 May 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Some men simply find it difficult to hold on to the woman they love for a prolonged period of time. Most of them suffer from the “cold feet syndrome,” which miraculously develops when things start getting a bit serious, or when she begins to talk about such things as responsibility and dependability. Here... |
12 February 2009
14:31 GMT |
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In a new study, published in the January 23rd issue of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, researchers at the Brigham Young University in the US have identified that playing video games regularly may have very serious repercussions on a gamer's personal life, as far as relationships with peers, friends and fam... |
23 January 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Neuroscientist Larry Young believes he may have found the answer to a millennia-old question – what is love? In a paper published recently in the journal Nature, the Emory University Yerkes National Primate Research Center scientist analyzed the responses of prairie voles, small mammals that are monogamous, to ... |
14 January 2009
04:33 GMT |
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A new research indicates that expressing more affection within the couple, by a form of touch therapy, can increase stress resistance and make the relationship even stronger, compared to a control group. The study, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, was conducted by experts at the Brigham Young Universi... |
10 January 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Everyone knows that lack of trust and confidence can be the downfall of an otherwise solid relationship, but popular culture, such as Hollywood movies, shows us that sometimes even the worse left-foot starts can be the beginning of something beautiful. A new research thoroughly dismisses that hypothesis and argues th... |
9 January 2009
08:55 GMT |
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