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‘Cheating’ Study Claims Men Resent Sexual Infidelity, Women Jealous Of Shared Love
The Huffington Post: How would you react if you found out that your partner had cheated? Would the emotional betrayal outweigh the physical one, or would the sexual infidelity hurt more than the undermining of your love? A new study says that the answer might have a lot to do with your gender. According to evolutionary psychologist Barry Kuhle's recent study, which was published in Personality and Individual Differences, while men are more likely to interrogate their partners about the sexual nature of an affair, a woman will often ask her partner whether he is in love with the other woman. How did Kuhle discover which aspect of infidelity bothered men and women most?
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Evitar los cambios bruscos de temperatura y seguir hábitos saludables es clave para prevenir catarros otoñales
Qué: En septiembre comienzan a bajar las temperaturas por lo que los expertos recomiendan evitar corrientes de aire y empezar a protegerse del frío por las mañanas y por las noches para esquivar los catarros típicos del otoño. "Para prevenir los catarros basta con evitar cambios bruscos de temperatura, protegerse del frío, no fumar, seguir una alimentación sana y variada y realizar ejercicio físico", recomienda el médico de familia y miembro de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria (SEMFyC), Francisco Camaralles. En opinión del experto, es importante distinguir entre el catarro y la gripe.
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How Not to Cope With Personal Insult
The Huffington Post: Humans have always had to cope with threats, both big and small. The physical and life-threatening threats that our ancestors faced have largely been replaced by social threats, but they are nonetheless an emotional menace. Insults, rejections and criticism can undermine our integrity and self-esteem. Sometimes we cope with these threats smoothly, and other times awkwardly -- sometimes disastrously. Is there a single, most effective strategy for dealing with life's constant battering?
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When feeling good isn’t good enough: Self-control, not self-esteem, is the key to success
New York Daily News: Psychology has identified two different prescriptions for how to solve the personal problems that people face today: self-esteem and self-control. Both have been touted as ways to reduce crime, obesity, school underachievement, teen pregnancy, drug abuse and domestic violence. After conducting dozens of studies and reading hundreds of others, I have concluded that one prescription is snake oil while the other is as close to penicillin as psychology is going to get. Here's my takeaway: Forget bolstering self-esteem. Concentrate on building self-control. Self-control is good for the person who has it, for the people around him or her and, in fact, for society as a whole.
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Public display of disaffection
Macleans: Last June, Kevin Newman delivered the commencement address at the University of Western Ontario. Reading from his iPad, the veteran TV news journalist extolled social media’s increasing role in shaping global events—and how it’s destined to make the graduating class “the most consequential generation in more than a century.” Afterwards, the 52-year-old, who received an honorary doctorate at the ceremony, took his seat on the dais and began typing into his iPhone. Once, in the paleolithic pre-Facebook era, a guest of honour displaying such distracted behaviour would have summoned dismayed cocked eyebrows. But if the university’s robed dignitaries were offended, they showed no sign.
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Attractive individuals may be penalized for good looks
National Post: It isn’t easy being beautiful — at least, not all the time. Two new studies have identified a surprising penalty for good looks, with implications for professional and personal settings alike. Researchers from Germany find the well-known beauty bias is actually flipped when attractive job candidates are appraised by a same-sex evaluator. Researchers from the U.S., separately, show a similarly negative effect when good-looking people have their apologies judged by their own gender. “There are a lot of studies that show attractive people make more money, are more likely to get hired and get lighter sentences in court when they’re convicted of crimes.
