If you see your partner flirt with someone else, you may feel hurt, angry, and jealous. The last thing you might expect is to start thinking of yourself more like your rival. New research suggests just that: that jealousy can prompt people to change how they view themselves relative to competitors for their partners' attention.
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Date Posted: July 11, 2013
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There could be an upside to being confined to that tiny cubicle at work: It may make you less likely to cheat.
A new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science finds that sitting at a large workspace or in a ...
Jul 11
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Relationship problems can keep us awake at night. But new research from UC Berkeley suggests that sleepless nights also can worsen lovers’ fights.
UC Berkeley psychologists Amie Gordon and Serena Chen have found that people are much more likely ...
Jul 11
Categories: Relationships & Marriage, Sleep Disorders
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Carrots and sticks have long been the favored tool for business managers looking to motivate their workers, whether it’s to encourage with the promise of a raise, or to threaten with firing.
But a new study from the University of Iowa suggests ...
Jul 10
GOArtists being able to collaborate with psychologists makes for a unique experience. I had the pleasure of coordinating such in 2001, for a performance piece entitled Presence. Inspired by self-development work of the previous decade, it was a ...
Jul 10
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The most common thing that couples want from each other during a conflict is not an apology, but a willingness to relinquish power, according to a new Baylor University study.
Giving up power comes in many forms, among them giving a partner more ...
Jul 10
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Criminologists have long known that men tend to offend less after they marry. But with almost half of all marriages now ending in divorce, what effect does separation have?
Writing in the journal Psychology, Crime & Law, Delphine Theobald and David ...
Jul 9
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Nowadays it's hardly news that self-control is vital to success in many areas of life.
The studies bear this out with boring monotony in education, in health, in terms of how much money you earn, in personal relationships and even mental ...
Jul 9
Categories: Control Issues
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We all know how easy it is to catch your roommate’s cold or flu, but what about his or her mood? New research claims that, in some situations, a depressed mood can be contagious.
The authors of the new study, which is published in the journal ...
Jul 8
Categories: Depression
GOWith the right incentive, such as winning a prize, children with autism do fairly well at inferring the thoughts and beliefs of others, according to a study published in the May issue of Developmental Science. Research has shown that children with ...
Jul 6
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function, according to a research team based at Princeton University.
The researchers report in the Journal ...
Jul 6
Categories: Stress Management
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When exposed to humour, women's brains exhibit more activity than men's in reward-related regions. Some experts say this is consistent with an idea derived from evolutionary theory that women are predisposed to be humour appreciators whereas men are ...
Jul 6
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In an eye-opening demonstration of nature’s ingenuity, researchers at Princeton University recently discovered that exercise creates vibrant new brain cells — and then shuts them down when they shouldn’t be in action.
For some time, ...
Jul 5
Categories: Anxiety
GOJanet, 64, had buried the horrific memories until she went for therapy. In 1976 Fred Handford, 56 — her business partner on the farm — vanished. Despite a huge police search he was never found. For more than 30 years Janet, who worked with him ...
Jul 5
Categories: Hypnosis
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Working in a team is not always easy, and achieving our aims often turns out to be much harder than we thought it would be. What can we do to increase our chances of gaining ultimate success? A new study from Aarhus University's transdisciplinary ...
Jul 4
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Indeed, psychological science has known for quite some time that we define ourselves-that is, we come to know who we are as a person-through our closest relationships. When the relationships go, so goes a very part of our existence. After a divorce, ...
Jul 4
Categories: Social Isolation
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