Tag: relationships
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Breaking Up
Read more: Breaking UpScienceDaily: Anguish of romantic rejection may be linked to stimulation of areas of brain related to motivation, reward and addiction. The study…helps to explain “why feelings and behaviors related to romantic rejection are difficult to control” and why extreme behaviors associated with romantic rejection such as stalking, homicide, suicide, and clinical depression occur in cultures…
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Relationship Stress and Health
Read more: Relationship Stress and HealthA study to put no one at ease: Relationship Insecurity Ups Health Risk. Anxious attachment was positively associated with a wider range of health conditions, including some defined primarily by pain and several involving the cardiovascular system (e.g., stroke, heart attack or high blood pressure).
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Relationship Rules
Read more: Relationship RulesRevisiting the conventional wisdom about getting along. [A]lthough a lot of modern relationship advice boils down to keeping positive, this isn’t always the best way to go. When things are dreamy, being positive is probably good advice. But this research suggests that rocky relationships can benefit from negative processes.
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Breakup Predictor
Read more: Breakup PredictorA study finds a new way t o predict whether or not a couple is going to stay together–word matching. The researchers found that volunteers who found it easy to associate their partner with bad things and difficult to associate the partner with good things were more likely to separate over the next year.
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Ending Relationship Like Kicking Drugs
Read more: Ending Relationship Like Kicking DrugsPsychCentral: Relationship Breakup Similar to Addiction Withdrawal Rejection by a romantic partner is a bitter pill. New research suggests the trauma is severe because love rejection affects primitive areas of the brain associated with motivation, reward and addiction cravings…