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Happily married women are better able to control their stress than women whose marriages are unhappy. UCLA researchers, led by Darby E. Saxbe, a graduate student in clinical psychology, tracked levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in 30 married women who work and have kids. “At least as far as women are concerned, being happily [...]
Relationships are as addictive as drugs, says new research from Stony Brook University in Long Island, and that may be why some people with more addictive personalities have a difficult time with breakups. Dr. Arthur Aron, Stony Brook professor of social and health psychology led the research, with looked at the centers of the brain [...]
Relationship breakups are not nearly as painful as those who are madly in love think it will be. New research shows that those who believe they are madly in love and fear the breakup will be disastrously painful actually recover much more rapidly than expected. There appears to be an inverse relationship between how bad [...]
Men are tough and women are emotional. Those are the prejudices one researcher from Wake Forest set out to challenge in a study of young adult relationships that involved more than a thousand participants who were 18 – 23 years old. Robin Simon, key researcher for the Wake Forest School of Sociology study, analyzed data [...]
