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Why Consumers Just Don’t Feel the Love for Valentine’s Day
TIME: Valentine’s Day is a pale, pink shadow of its former self. Once associated with throbbing red passion and romance, today it’s more likely to elicit a sense of obligation, dread or apathy. The annual
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Why Married People Are Smug and Singles So Carefree
TIME: If you’re single, you can’t seem to get away from the couple who won’t stop cooing and talking about how great it is to be in a relationship and how relieved they are to
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We Are What We Smell
Scientific American: Pheromones: they’re those chemical signals often associated with attraction. But there are many chemical signals we give off—including ones that might signal alarm, aggression or other emotions. For example, take fear. If sweat
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Rationalizing Madly on Valentine’s Day
The Wall Street Journal: Call it the Valentine’s Day bias—the belief that, whether you’re attached or single, your own status is a kind of universal ideal. The funny thing is that people often do this
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Small Acts, Big Love
The Wall Street Journal: Chris Kline doesn’t like to tell his wife of 17 years, Tara, that he loves her. He prefers to show her—by loading her favorite songs on her phone and warming up
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Love is in the mind, not in the heart
The Washington Post: Nearly 400 years after William Shakespeare asked, “What is love?,” brain imaging studies are allowing scientists to give at least a partial answer. As our calendars get closer to Feb. 14, a