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Are you showing you love him/her?
March 16, 2014 Comments Off on Are you showing you love him/her?

Psychology Today
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Most theories of relationships focus on the ways that intimate partners feel about each other, but according to John Gottman’s behavioural approach, it’s the outward signs you need to focus on to test the health of yours. This approach follows from the assumption that observable actions provide, in many cases, harder evidence about what’s going on inside a person than the inferences we make from what he or she says.
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How to avoid loosing your mind…
March 12, 2014 Comments Off on How to avoid loosing your mind…

Science 2.0

Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy of Gothenburg University previously analyzed Swedish men’s conscription results and were able to show a correlation between cardiovascular fitness as a teenager and health problems in later life. In a new paper based on data from 1.1 million young Swedish men, the Gothenburg researcher team shows that those with poorer cardiovascular fitness and/or lower IQ in their teenage years more often suffer from early-onset dementia.

“Previous studies have shown the correlation between cardiovascular fitness and the risk of dementia in old age.
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Has dissatisfaction become a place of comfort?
March 8, 2014 Comments Off on Has dissatisfaction become a place of comfort?

Psychology Today

A basic assumption of human behaviour is that people pursue pleasure and seek to avoid pain. Then why is it that some people seem content to wallow in their misery, even boasting about it as some sort of badge of honour? Even when given steps to improve their lives, they prefer to continue complaining. Is there a certain comfortable familiarity with being dissatisfied that becomes an obstacle to change?
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Are your expectations killing your marriage?
March 5, 2014 Comments Off on Are your expectations killing your marriage?

Guardian –
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Finkel claims that persistent high divorce rates and low levels of marital satisfaction are a direct result of couples being unable to meet the psychological expectations of their partners. While overall demands on marriages have not changed much over time, he said, the nature of the demands has shifted and they require more time and effort to satisfy.

“In the past, you married someone who helped you meet your basic needs, but over time, love increasingly conquered marriage.
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Struggles with orgasm?
March 1, 2014 Comments Off on Struggles with orgasm?

NAIJ –

Scientists are also discovering its health benefits: the resulting rush of blood to the head is better for the brain than doing a crossword, one US researcher recently claimed.

It’s also thought to act as a stressbuster, reduce pain and ease depression, while one study even suggested the greater the frequency of orgasms, the longer you’ll live.
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So… looking for someone to tell you you’re a sinner?
February 28, 2014 Comments Off on So… looking for someone to tell you you’re a sinner?

Huffington Post

While going through the course my classmates and I were given surveys to fill out. One of the questions asked was: “Where or to whom would you turn if you were in crisis?” Popular answers listed were “the emergency room,” “a loved one,” “a mentor,” “a crisis hotline,” and very last on the popularity list was “clergy.” When asked why most people responded that they were afraid they would be told they were a sinner.
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The haunting scars of emotional neglect
February 25, 2014 Comments Off on The haunting scars of emotional neglect

NPR

Researchers began studying the children in Romanian orphanages after the nation’s brutal and repressive government was overthrown in 1989. At the time, there were more than 100,000 children in government institutions. And it soon became clear that many of them had stunted growth and a range of mental and emotional problems.
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Smarter then a 5th grader?
February 22, 2014 Comments Off on Smarter then a 5th grader?

Entrepreneur

Thirteen-year-old Girl Scout Danielle Lei has gainfully confirmed the age-old aphorism, “Location, location, location.”

When the San Francisco tween set up a Girl Scout cookie stand outside of a marijuana clinic called The Green Cross earlier this week, sales were unsurprisingly blazing.
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Still thinking positive?
February 21, 2014 Comments Off on Still thinking positive?

New Yorker –

Moreover, as the journalist Oliver Burkeman noted in “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking,” “Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed when things eventually happen that he can’t persuade himself to believe are good.”
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The power of compartmentalization…
February 18, 2014 Comments Off on The power of compartmentalization…

NY Times –

A study called “Egalitarianism, Housework and Sexual Frequency in Marriage,” which appeared in The American Sociological Review last year, surprised many, precisely because it went against the logical assumption that as marriages improve by becoming more equal, the sex in these marriages will improve, too. Instead, it found that when men did certain kinds of chores around the house, couples had less sex.
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