Tag: relationships
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Internet Daters are Not Losers (and 9 Other Research-Based Tips About Online Dating)
Read more: Internet Daters are Not Losers (and 9 Other Research-Based Tips About Online Dating)PsyBlog scans the research and comes up with 10 Psychological Insights About Online Dating. Number one: Internet daters are not losers: Contrary to the stereotype, there’s little evidence that internet dating is the last resort of social misfits or weirdos. In fact, quite the reverse. Internet daters are more likely to be sociable, have high self-esteem and…
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People v. Problems
Read more: People v. ProblemsFrom Wired: Alcohol can increase longevity…but why? In recent years, sociologists and epidemiologists have begun studying the long-term effects of loneliness. It turns out to be really dangerous. We are social primates, and when we’re cut off from the social network, we are more likely to die from just about everything (but especially heart disease). At…
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Debt v. Romance
Read more: Debt v. RomanceNYT: How Debt Can Destroy a Budding Relationship. Nobody likes unpleasant surprises, but when Allison Brooke Eastman’s fiancé found out four months ago just how high her student loan debt was, he had a particularly strong reaction: he broke off the engagement within three days…
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Walking and Deciding
Read more: Walking and DecidingA pair of studies from Science Daily: Walking boosts brain connectivity, function Two heads are better than one — with the right partner
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For Friendship
Read more: For FriendshipAn essay from the Wilson Quarterly (via aldaily.com): [W]e live now in a climate in which friends appear dispensable. While most of us wouldn’t last long outside the intricate web of interdependence that supplies all our physical needs—imagine no electricity, money, or sewers—we’ve come to demand of ourselves truly radical levels of emotional self-sufficiency…