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Most People Strongly Desire One Trait in a Long-Term Partner
A new study reports that men and women around the globe put kindness at the top of the list when ranking characteristics they would value most in a hypothetical "ideal long-term partner." These findings (Thomas et al., 2019) were published on September 8 in the Journal of Personality.
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What Young People All Over the World Want Most in a Partner
A new study found the trait they consider most appealing.
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Why Anger Matters and What to Do About It
Anger gets a bad rap in the therapy – and spirituality – community. It’s labeled a “negative” emotion, and for good reason. When anger runs us and we react to it, it can blow like a volcano and make quite a mess of our relationships.
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When Having Friends Is More Alluring Than Being Right
“There’s this flat-earther documentary called BEHIND THE CURVE,” my wife said. “We have to watch it!” Of course we did. My wife will occasionally get into huge debates with flat-earthers on Facebook, dutifully reporting back on all the idiocy she dug up that day. Now, I didn’t care much about flat-earthers, but I care very much about the amusement of watching my adorable wife get worked up about these dippy-doodles, so… we watched. Except the flat-earthers weren’t dippy-doodles. They were just lonely.
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How To Balance Your Creative Ambition With Your Relationships
How can we balance our creative ambition with the important people in our life who deserve our love and attention?
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How to Speak the Languages of Love - MentalWealth
Recently I have been reading The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman. According to him we can think of love as having a tank.
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Couples experience more relationship problems when the male partner is sexist
New research provides evidence that men’s sexist attitudes are associated with relationship problems, which in turn undermines their female partner’s satisfaction and commitment. The findings have been published in the European Journal of Social Psychology.
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A new book says married women are miserable. Don’t believe it.
Many books aren’t fact-checked, and we’re increasingly realizing they’re full of errors.
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How Do We Choose Our Online Friends?
A new study suggests friendship formation is different online than in real life.
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The Batshit and Fantastical Life of Hortense Mancini
From bedding Kings to fleeing countries dressed as a pistol wielding man. Duelling her lovers, drinking, dancing and above all fighting for her independence; the life on Hortense Mancini was to be blunt, fucking insane.
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People With Happy Spouses May Live Longer
Research suggests that having a happy spouse leads to a longer marriage, and now study results show that it’s associated with a longer life, too. The study was published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “The data show that spousal life satisfaction was associated with mortality, regardless of individuals’ socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, or their physical health status,” says study author Olga Stavrova, a researcher at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
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For women, emotional awareness may play an important role in the link between testosterone and sexual desire
The relationship between testosterone and sexual desire in women is dependent on relationship status and bodily and emotional awareness, according to preliminary research published in the journal Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology.
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On Lords of Chaos, The Rise of Global Fascism, Dating the Human Equivalent of Nihilist Arby’s, and Refusal to Discuss Mental Health
Content Warning: This essay brings up sexual violence and suicide ideation at various points. By Rachel Presser.
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Are Cheaters Hypocrites?
Warach, Josephs, and Gorman (2019) just published a study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin called “Are Cheaters Sexual Hypocrites? Sexual Hypocrisy, the Self-Serving Bias, and Personality Style.” Their study explores how the self-serving bias in relationship to infidelity can lead to sexual hypocrisy and how sexual hypocrisy is greater among certain personality styles. The self-serving bias is the tendency of individuals to take credit for their successes but to minimize blame for their failures or wrongdoings often by blaming others.
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Yale researchers have pinpointed what happy couples have in common
A new study gives a clue to the secret to a long, blissful marriage: genetics. Yale University researchers concluded that the happiest, most secure-feeling couples in an experiment had at least one person in the pair with a variation in their gene receptor for oxytocin, known as the “love hormone.” “This study shows that how we feel in our close relationships is influenced by more than just our shared experiences with our partners over time,” said Joan Monin, associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health. “In marriage, people are also influenced by their own and their partner’s genetic predispositions.”
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What is a quality you look for in a significant other?
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When Your Shared Netflix Account Outlasts The Relationship
Sharing of online streaming video and music passwords among sweethearts is a territorial marker, like wearing a boyfriend's sweater. But what happens to custody of the accounts when the love is gone?
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Death of the private self: how fifteen years of Facebook changed the human condition
In 2004, the social network site was set up to connect people. But now, with lives increasingly played out online, have we forgotten how to be alone?
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The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor’
The term has become a central part of an important conversation about the division of household work. But the sociologist who coined it says it’s being used incorrectly. By Julie Beck, with Arlie Hochschild.
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When it comes to love: personality matters: QUT research
Men with a greater range of personality traits, especially those deemed extraverted, emotionally stable, agreeable or conscientious, have sex more often and produce more children, according to a new QUT study. QUT behavioural economists Dr Stephen Whyte, Dr Ho Fai Chan and Professor Benno Torgler have undertaken the largest ever behavioural economics study conducted in Australia looking into personality, sex and offspring.
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