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Marriage Therapists Who Follow Their Own Advice
Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change and, in some cases, start over. In It’s No Secret, couples share thoughts about commitment and tell us what they have learned along the way. Who Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, 68, and Dr. John Gottman, 77 Occupations The couple, both of whom have Ph.D.’s in psychology, are the founders of the Gottman Institute, a Seattle company that helps couples build and maintain healthy relationships based on scientific studies. They are co-authors of “Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love,” which was published in February by Workman Publishing. Their Marriage 31 years, 9 months and counting
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The Worst Form of Envy? In the Future Tense
It is better to be envied than to be pitied, wrote the Greek historian Herodotus, and in our use of social media it’s clear that most of us agree. After all, why post selfies of yourself and your sweetheart lifting champagne flutes en route to Thailand if not to induce an eat-your-heart-out response in your friends? Ubiquitous public displays of everyone’s happy moments—with the low points edited out—are one reason, according to a 2017 study, that most of us believe other people lead richer social lives than we do. Research shows that most of us think we are better looking, smarter, more competent and of course less biased than other people.
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Americans’ views flipped on gay rights. How did minds change so quickly?
Steve and Teri Augustine met, fell in love and got married in a conservative evangelical Christian community. They grew up believing homosexuality was a sin, and that the “gay agenda” was an attack on their values. Then, six years ago, their son Peter — their youngest child who loved theater and his church youth group — returned home to Ellicott City, Md., from his freshman year of college and came out to his family as gay. Teri asked her son not to tell anyone else, and drove herself to a mall parking lot to cry. Steve questioned his son’s faith, reciting Bible passages from Corinthians.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring blinking and time perception, how words influence speech perception, and intentional binding without intentional action.
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Downward Head Tilt Can Make People Seem More Dominant
We draw social inferences from not only facial features but from the position of the head itself, research shows.
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To Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over
Mike Morrison hardly looks like a revolutionary. He's wearing a dark suit and has short hair. But we're about to enter a world of conformity that hasn't changed in decades — maybe even a century. And in there, his vision seems radical. "We are about to walk into a room full of 100 scientific posters, where researchers are trying to display their findings on a big poster board," says Morrison, a doctoral student in psychology at Michigan State University.
