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Against “Halfalogues”
Read more: Against “Halfalogues”From the Los Angeles Times: Cellphone conversations we overhear really bug us. “Hafalogues” distract, annoy, and impair, says a study: [P]articipants were seated at computers and asked to perform various cognitive tests while exposed to one of the three sounds or silence. Hearing the halfalogue was the only background noise that distracted the study participants…
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Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)
Read more: Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)Couples’ lit spotlight: Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships, by sex/relationship therapist, David Schnarch. The book samples actual sex therapy sessions to make its case. Don’t care to read 400 pages about how differentiation? Try the six-point plan linked from Schnarch’s website, posted here minus the explanations: Operate from the Best in Yourself. Sustain…
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Choice v. Anxiety
Read more: Choice v. AnxietyThe client knows best–studies catching up: Flexible Treatment Intervention Associated With Greater Improvement In Anxiety Symptoms (Medical News Today).
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Singing Away IBS
Read more: Singing Away IBSStudy: Irritable Bowel Syndrome felled by song. Previous studies have demonstrated the beneficial psychological and biological effects of singing, with associated feelings of relaxation, energy and joy. An inter-university Swedish study has set out to test whether there were any additional stress-related benefits from choir singing in comparison with other group activities… (Via GoodTherapy.org.)
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Focus on the Family
Read more: Focus on the FamilyA massive anthropological study of American family life is complete. Cameras on 32 families; 1,540 hours of video. “This is the richest, most detailed, most complete database of middle-class family living in the world…What it does is hold up a mirror to people. They laugh. They cringe. It shows us life as it is actually…