Tag: relationships
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Sustainable Love
Read more: Sustainable LoveThe latest in relationship science relayed by Tara Parker-Pope. “People have a fundamental motivation to improve the self and add to who they are as a person,” Dr. Lewandowski says. “If your partner is helping you become a better person, you become happier and more satisfied in the relationship.”
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Skin Deep
Read more: Skin DeepA study shows people more accurately assessing personality traits of attractive people. “If people think Jane is beautiful, and she is very organized and somewhat generous, people will see her as more organized and generous than she actually is,” Biesanz said. “Despite this bias, our study shows that people will also correctly discern the relative ordering…
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Mastery v. Performance
Read more: Mastery v. PerformancePsychCental: Personal Goal-Setting Strategy Affects Relationships According to investigators, goal-setting behavior may influence whether people will be comfortable in sharing and communicating. For example, people with “mastery goals” want to improve themselves. Maybe they want to get better grades, make more sales, or land that triple toe loop. On the other hand, people with what psychologists call “performance…
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Your Flirting Style
Read more: Your Flirting StyleA study says self-awareness about your flirting style helps dating, helps relationships. “Knowing something about the way you communicate attraction says something about challenges you might have had in your past dating life,” Hall said. “Hopefully, this awareness can help people avoid those mistakes and succeed in courtship.” The five styles of flirting named: physical, traditional,…
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Friends with Cognitive Benefits
Read more: Friends with Cognitive BenefitsA study likes conversation. Talking with other people in a friendly way can make it easier to solve common problems, a new University of Michigan study shows. But conversations that are competitive in tone, rather than cooperative, have no cognitive benefits…