Tag: relationships
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Sisters and Happiness
Read more: Sisters and HappinessDeborah Tannen looks at why having a sister makes people happier. My own recent research about sisters suggests a more subtle dynamic. I interviewed more than 100 women about their sisters, but if they also had brothers, I asked them to compare. Most said they talked to their sisters more often, at greater length and,…
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Love Science
Read more: Love SciencePsychCentral sums up a meta-study, “The Neuroimaging of Love.” Findings suggest falling in love can elicit not only the same euphoric feeling as using cocaine, but also affects intellectual areas of the brain…Researchers also found falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second.
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Love v. Pain
Read more: Love v. PainStudy: Love decreases pain. Commenters: Unimpressed. Researchers from Stanford University studied the link between love and pain by scanning the brains of 15 college students who all professed to being deeply in love. The eight women and seven men were placed in brain scanners that tracked their body’s response to pain — in this case…
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Neighborhood Depression
Read more: Neighborhood DepressionA unsurprising study says that where you live affects your mood. “One of the things we tried to assess was essentially community support — to what extent people in that neighborhood turned to others for child care, other forms of assistance — and whether they socialize and know each other. And it’s clear that in…
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Socializing Time
Read more: Socializing TimeWant to be more social? Think about time, a study says. Does thinking about time or money make you happier? A new study…finds that people who are made to think about time plan to spend more of their time with the people in their lives while people who think about money fill their schedules with…