All Articles Tagged As: relationships

Society's attitudes have little impact on choice of sexual partner (6/19/2008)

New study suggests that the attitude of families and the public have little impact on if adults decide to have sex with persons of the same or the opposite sex ...> Full Article

Admiring Celebrities Can Help Improve Self-Esteem (6/9/2008)

Admiring Celebrities Can Help Improve Self-Esteem ...> Full Article

Friends by Chance? (6/8/2008)

Contrary to general belief, friends are not necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who get their first. ...> Full Article

Rules of the game: the unwritten rules of the bar pick-up (5/23/2008)

How is a pick-up done in a bar? What strategies for rejection and sexual come-ons do men and women use? ...> Full Article

Study finds teasing may be more damaging than once thought (4/20/2008)

Children are more likely to interpret teasing -- even teasing intended to be harmless -- as negative rather than positive ...> Full Article

Why the dating game is taken at face value (4/10/2008)

Suitors can tell a young person's attitude to sexual relationships by the look on their face ...> Full Article

Are you my mother? Transference more pronounced when we are tired (4/4/2008)

Mental representations of significant others may be activated from memory and applied to new people that you meet who resemble someone you know ...> Full Article

Bullying is a relationship problem, new study confirms (3/28/2008)

Students who bully tend to have difficulties with other relationships as well ...> Full Article

Spanking Kids Increases Risk of Sexual Problems as Adults, New Research Shows (3/2/2008)

Children who are spanked or victims of other corporal punishment are more likely to have sexual problems as a teen or adult ...> Full Article

Empty Nest Syndrome May Not Be Bad After All, Study Finds (2/24/2008)

Parents Reported Similar Positive Changes in Parent-Child Relationship ...> Full Article

'Hotties' not so hot when you're in love, study (2/22/2008)

As if inspiring countless songs and poems and an international holiday weren't enough, love now is being credited with a truly amazing power: the ability to resist temptation. ...> Full Article

Is Your Partner Happy? It May Be Hard to Know (2/20/2008)

High self-monitors -- people who are highly attuned to social situations and who most prone to moderate their behavior and the image they present to others accordingly -- are less satisfied in their romantic relationships than low self-monitors, a Northwestern University study finds. ...> Full Article

Rethinking What We Want in a Partner (2/20/2008)

When it comes to romantic attraction men primarily are motivated by good looks and women by earning power. At least that's what men and women have been saying for a long time. Based on research that dates back several decades, the widely accepted notion permeates popular culture today. ...> Full Article

The Beauty Bias: Can people love the one they are compatible with? (2/17/2008)

Physical attractiveness is important in choosing whom to date. Good looking people are not only popular targets for romantic pursuits, they themselves also tend to flock together with more attractive others. Does this mean then that more attractive versus less attractive people wear a different pair of lens when evaluating others' attractiveness? ...> Full Article

Yes, dear: Romantic relationships can make you defensive, 'avoidant' (2/16/2008)

Some people in relationships tend to be defensive and avoid prickly discussions and even words like "divorce"-something that can lead to anxiety later, a University of Michigan researcher says. ...> Full Article

A Sense of Scarcity: Why it seems like all the good ones are taken (2/15/2008)

Singles' bars, classified personals and dating websites are a reflection, not only of the common human desire to find a mate, but of the sense of scarcity that seems to surround the hunt. Many people participate in dating activities in the hopes of finding that special someone, yet feel as though it is an impossible task. However, thanks to an international team of psychologists, the solution may be closer than we think -- within ourselves, to be exact. ...> Full Article

What do we mean when we talk of love? (2/14/2008)

Just in time for Valentine's Day, psychologist Dacher Keltner demystifies the biological manifestations of everyone's favorite heartfelt emotion ...> Full Article

'Love Hormone' Promotes Bonding (2/12/2008)

Gazing into your lover's eyes isn't only romantic; it may also mimic early attachments that forever alter your brain and body. ...> Full Article

Seeing our spouses more negatively might be a positive (2/5/2008)

While our relationships with children and best friends tend to become less negative as we age, we're more likely to see our spouses as irritating and demanding. ...> Full Article

A good fight may keep you and your marriage healthy (1/25/2008)

A good fight with your spouse may be good for your health, research suggests. ...> Full Article

People not always needed to alleviate loneliness (1/19/2008)

New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company. ...> Full Article

Popular opinion not always so popular (1/13/2008)

Whether you're a voter choosing the next president, a manager making policy decisions or a consumer selecting a brand, it's likely your decision is influenced by the opinions of others. ...> Full Article

Culture Influences Brain Function (1/12/2008)

People from different cultures use their brains differently to solve the same visual perceptual tasks, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the first brain imaging study of its kind. ...> Full Article

For women, marital distress means less relief from stress (1/2/2008)

That's the suggestion from a new UCLA study that tracked levels of cortisol, a key stress hormone, among 30 Los Angeles married couples involved in one of our age's trickiest juggling acts - raising kids when both parents work full time. ...> Full Article

Humans And Monkeys Share Machiavellian Intelligence (10/26/2007)

When it comes to their social behavior, people sometimes act like monkeys, or more specifically, like rhesus macaques, a type of monkey that shares with humans strong tendencies for nepotism and political maneuvering. ...> Full Article

Can't take my eyes off you: Study shows the power of attraction (9/18/2007)

Whether we are seeking a mate or sizing up a potential rival, good-looking people capture our attention nearly instantaneously and render us temporarily helpless to turn our eyes away from them, according to a new Florida State University study. ...> Full Article

Choosing a mate: What we really want (9/5/2007)

While humans may pride themselves on being highly evolved, most still behave like the stereotypical Neanderthals when it comes to choosing a mate, according to research by Indiana University cognitive scientist Peter Todd. In a new study, Todd and colleagues found that though individuals may claim otherwise, beauty is the key ingredient for men while women, the much choosier of the sexes, leverage their looks for security and commitment. ...> Full Article

Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Study Finds (8/30/2007)

"Breaking Up is Hard to Do" is advice from a popular 1970s song, but older women going through a relationship breakup may have health problems to go along with their broken hearts, a University of Alabama researcher has found. ...> Full Article

Macho Men Are Seen As Bad Choice For Long-Term Love (8/11/2007)

Women see 'masculine' men as unsuitable long-term partners, new research suggests. ...> Full Article

Simulated Relationships Offer Insight Into Real Ones (8/9/2007)

Is it me, or are you a less than ideal partner? For psychologists studying how people manage romantic relationships, that's not an easy question to answer. What if one of the partners is deeply afraid of intimacy? Could she be acting in ways that undermine the relationship? Or is her partner contributing to the problem? ...> Full Article