Couples shouldn’t let their thumbs do the talking when it comes to serious conversations, disagreements or apologies. Brigham Young University researchers Lori Schade and Jonathan Sandberg studied 276 young adults around the country and found that being constantly connected through technology ...
Date Posted: November 2, 2013
Categories: Communication Disorders Problems, Relationships & Marriage
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What’s in a kiss? A study by Oxford University researchers suggests kissing helps us size up potential partners and, once in a relationship, may be a way of getting a partner to stick around.
‘Kissing in human sexual relationships is incredibly ...
Oct 17
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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What makes some people more prone to wedded bliss or sorrow than others? Researchers at UC Berkeley and Northwestern University have found a major clue in our DNA. A gene involved in the regulation of serotonin can predict how much our emotions ...
Oct 8
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Think your partner is cheating? His or her voice may be a dead giveaway.
New research by Albright College associate professor of psychology Susan Hughes, Ph.D., has found that men and women alter their voices when speaking to lovers versus friends ...
Oct 3
Categories: Infidelity, Relationships & Marriage
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It is common for parents to influence mate choice — from arranged marriages to more subtle forms of persuasion — but they often disagree with their children about what makes a suitable partner. A new study has found an evolutionary explanation ...
Sep 20
Categories: Parenting, Relationships & Marriage
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Michele Phillips and her husband, Gary Wadds, were hanging out on the porch with friends one evening in Piermont, N.Y., when the talk turned to hiking. One person mentioned a local trail, another raved about her new hiking boots. Then Ms. Phillips ...
Sep 17
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Non-physical abuse by a dating partner such as threats, controlling behavior and harassing text messages can have a serious effect on a teenager’s health and well-being, finds new research led by a Michigan State University scholar.
The study, ...
Sep 17
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
GOI’m pretty sure my wife asked me to do something this morning. I think it’s important and I know if I don’t do it I will miss a deadline or an appointment or a mortgage payment. Or maybe not. I honestly don’t know, and the reason is simple: ...
Sep 11
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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With so many other competing voices, having a conversation on a bustling subway or at a crowded cocktail party takes a great deal of concentration. New research suggests that the familiar voice of a spouse stands out against other voices, helping to ...
Sep 2
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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The golden lion tamarin, a one-pound primate that lives in Brazil, is a stunningly monogamous creature. A male will typically pair with a female and they will stay close for the rest of their lives, mating only with each other and then working ...
Aug 19
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Fewer women are getting married and they’re waiting longer to tie the knot when they do decide to walk down the aisle. That’s according to a new Family Profile from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green ...
Jul 19
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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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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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
GOAccording to Eli Finkel, we’ve changed how we value our personal ...
Jul 1
Categories: Marital Counseling, Relationships & Marriage
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When faced with the choice of sacrificing time and energy for a loved one or taking the self-centered route, people’s first impulse is to think of others, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association ...
Jun 29
Categories: Control Issues, Relationships & Marriage
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