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Raising Anxiety
Read more: Raising AnxietyFrom Slate: Girls don’t start out more anxious than boys, but they usually end up that way. When it comes to our preconceived notions about women and anxiety, women are unfairly being dragged through the mud. While women are indeed more fretful than men on average right now, this difference is mostly the result of a…
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“Serenity Parenting”
Read more: “Serenity Parenting”Bryan Caplan looks at twin studies and concludes: Have More Kids. Pay Less Attention to Them (WSJ): The obvious lesson to draw is that parents should lighten up. I call it “Serenity Parenting”: Parents need the serenity to accept the things they cannot change, the courage to change the things they can, and (thank you…
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Psychopaths, the Article
Read more: Psychopaths, the ArticleSuffering Souls, from the New Yorker, a ways back (via MindHacks): Psychopaths are as old as Cain, and they are believed to exist in all cultures, although they are more prevalent in individualistic societies in the West. The Yupik Eskimos use the term kunlangeta to describe a man who repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, and takes sexual…
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Rejection Pain
Read more: Rejection PainSocial Rejection Hurts Like Physical Pain (PsychCentral): “On the surface, spilling a hot cup of coffee on yourself and thinking about how rejected you feel when you look at the picture of a person that you recently experienced an unwanted break-up with may seem to elicit very different types of pain. But this research shows…
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Couples Communication
Read more: Couples CommunicationStudy: Couples May Not Communicate Better Than Strangers (PsychCentral): “Although speakers expected their spouse to understand them better than strangers, accuracy rates for spouses and strangers were statistically identical. This result is striking because speakers were more confident that they were understood by their spouse” […] “A wife who says to her husband, ‘it’s getting…