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Runner’s High, Exerciser’s Brain
Read more: Runner’s High, Exerciser’s BrainScience of the runner’s high and rats on running wheels in the New York Times: As the name suggests, endocannabinoids are chemicals that, like cannabis in marijuana, alter and lighten moods. But the body produces endocannabinoids naturally. In other studies, endocannabinoid levels have been shown to increase after prolonged running and cycling, leading many scientists to conclude…
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The Cohabitation Effect
Read more: The Cohabitation EffectCouples living together out of convenience–“sliding, not deciding”–gets roughed up in the NYT by psychologist Meg Jay, author of The Defining Decade: Sliding into cohabitation wouldn’t be a problem if sliding out were as easy. But it isn’t. Too often, young adults enter into what they imagine will be low-cost, low-risk living situations only to find themselves…
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Relationship Help
Read more: Relationship HelpFor couples going through a rough patch, here’s a short video sampling of Getting the Love You Want author Harville Hendrix’s take on what draws people to each other and how to make a relationship work (short version: “be nice”). Lots more detail in the book.
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Being Creative
Read more: Being CreativeJonah Lehrer’s new book, Imagine, excerpted in the Wall Street Journal: [C]reativity is not magic, and there’s no such thing as a creative type. Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It’s a skill. Anyone can learn to be creative and to get better at it.…
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Therapists on Couples Therapy
Read more: Therapists on Couples TherapyCouples Therapy through the eyes of couples therapists in the New York Times. “For starters, there’s an ever-present risk of winning one spouse’s allegiance at the expense of the other spouse’s,” explains William J. Doherty, the University of Minnesota professor of family social science, in his groundbreaking 2002 article on the topic of awkward couples…