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Bien interpréter un sourire féminin
Le Figaro: D'après une étude, les hommes cherchant une aventure rapide sont plus enclins que les autres à surestimer l'attirance des femmes pour eux. Elle m'a souri… Ce doit être une invite pour l'aborder! Aller, go.» Les hommes, plus que les femmes, sont prompts à mal interpréter les signaux corporels que les autres peuvent envoyer dans de nombreux domaines de la vie sociale. Regard, position des mains et des bras, des jambes, de la tête, du corps… Et bien sûr le sourire qui est l'un des signaux les plus apparents et des plus chaleureux.
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What Can Winnie-the-Pooh Teach Us About Media Multitasking?
Scientific American: If a writer, why not write On whatever comes in sight? So—the Children’s Books; a short Intermezzo of a sort: When I wrote them, little thinking All my years of pen-and-inking Would be almost lost among Those four trifles for the young. With those lines, Alan Alexander Milne—or A. A. Milne, as he’s more widely known—paid tribute to his most enduring creation, a certain fuzzy brown bear called Winnie-the-Pooh. And what a creation it was. It’s little wonder that the books have eclipsed the rest of Milne’s (quite considerable) pen-and-inking.
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Baby-Mother Bonds Affect Future Adult Relationships, Study Finds
LiveScience: A mother lode of bonding – or a lack thereof – between moms and young children can predict kids' behavior in romantic relationships decades later, a new study suggests. Adding to evidence that even preverbal memories are firmly imprinted on young psyches, researchers found that children who had been more securely attached to their mothers, now grown, did better at resolving relationship conflicts, recovering from those conflicts and enjoying stable, satisfying ties with their romantic partners in early adulthood. "It's often very difficult to find the lingering effects of early life being related to adult behavior, because life circumstances change," said study author Jeffry A.
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Sexual Cues: All It Takes Is A Smile?
Huffington Post: This just in: According to a study by WIlliams College psychologist Carin Perrilloux -- the results of which will be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science -- men really aren't on to how the other sex thinks. Perilloux and her co-authors studied 200 heterosexual college students who were evenly split between the sexes and with an average age of 19 to gauge how each gender read the other's sexual cues. Here are their surprising findings: 1. The more attractive the woman was to the guy the more likely he was to rate her as interested in him! 2.
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Going through some hard times may make people tougher
Los Angeles Times: During the holidays people can experience an enormous amount of stress, even more so these days with a bad economy thrown in. But a study finds that having some adverse experiences in the past may make you mentally tougher. A meta-analysis of studies that looked at how traumatic events affect mental health and well-being found a pattern: The number of adverse experiences may determine whether someone becomes more resilient and better able to handle what life throws at him or her.
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How Pregnancy Changes a Woman’s Brain
We know a lot about the links between a pregnant mother’s health, behavior, and moods and her baby’s cognitive and psychological development once it is born. But how does pregnancy change a mother’s brain? “Pregnancy is a critical period for central nervous system development in mothers,” says psychologist Laura M. Glynn of Chapman University. “Yet we know virtually nothing about it.” Glynn and her colleague Curt A. Sandman, of University of the California Irvine, are doing something about that.
