Friendship tends to be based on some kind of shared experience: growing up with someone, working with them, or having the same interests. Politics is an important factor too, with research suggesting that we can be pretty intolerant of those with different political positions - not an ideal ...
Date Posted: August 14, 2020
Categories: Friendships
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Does social media use strengthen relationships, or does it displace offline interactions? New research identifies compares two contradicting hypotheses on the complicated relationship between loneliness and social internet use.
Oct 11
Categories: Friendships, Other, Social Isolation
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1. Don't try so hard to be "memorable."
Jun 14
Categories: Friendships, Social Anxiety / Phobia
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Loneliness appears most prevalent among millennials - and there are two compounding explanations.
May 29
Categories: Depression, Friendships
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Our earliest family patterns affect social connections in adulthood - a phenomenon known as foundational 'attachment theory'. Here are the four main types of attachment styles, as well as examples of and ways to respond to such adult behavior.
May 27
Categories: Codependency / Dependency, Friendships, Relationships & Marriage
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Be it as a sincere remorse, marker of politeness or for perfunctory purposes, most of us apologise for our wrongdoings. Saying sorry may help to mend broken promises, but have we over-estimated the power of apology?
Mar 25
Categories: Friendships, Relationships & Marriage
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The linguistic blending of phone and snubbing reflects the phenomenon that we commonly see nowadays - phubbing. Snubbing your partner to look at your phone, researchers discover that phubbing is now the swift and silent relationship killer.
Mar 25
Categories: Friendships, Relationships & Marriage
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We all wish to keep our friends by our side by a long time, but some of us do so better than others. New research has found out what qualities make people stay. Find the secret to a long-lasting friendship now!
Mar 18
Categories: Friendships
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Immediately after we've been shunned, a new study shows our brains engage a subtle mechanism that alters our sense of whether other people are making eye contact with us, so that we think it more likely that they are looking our way.
Jan 14
Categories: Friendships, Relationships & Marriage, Social Isolation
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Transactive memory systems (TMS) are repositories of knowledge that are shared between two or more people. A shared memory of events between friends can be part of it, but it's also a way of calling up facts that other people know. If you say "Oh, ...
Sep 6
Categories: Friendships, Relationships & Marriage
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When people tell each other something intimate, it deepens the relationship.
Jul 23
Categories: Friendships
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I want you to know that I started psychotherapy and am now seeing a therapist every week. Through my therapy sessions, we have started to uncover that I have General Anxiety Disorder and Cyclothymic Disorder.
Jul 22
Categories: Anxiety, Ending a relationship issues, Friendships
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Just like any type of touch, holding hands can be a very potent signal. Depending on how it is used, it can make or break the relationship. It can break other person's defenses and force them to open up to you, or it can have a completely opposite ...
Jun 11
Categories: Empathy, Friendships, Relationships & Marriage
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Everyone has a flaky friend. You may even be that friend. Flakiness refers to canceling plans a very short time before said plans are about to begin and is a trend generally attributed to people’s overscheduled lives, conflicting commitments, ...
Jan 27
Categories: Friendships
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Can you remember who your best friend was in seventh grade? If you are having difficulty, it could be because relationships at that age are often short-lived. Half don't last a year. The friendships that do last can be predicted based on demographic ...
Jan 18
Categories: Friendships
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It’s a word that’s stealthily driving your friends away, and it’s time to eliminate it from your social vocabulary.
Oct 15
Categories: Friendships
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