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The Shaky Science of Online Dating
Businessweek: Ten years ago, online dating was seen as the last refuge of the desperate; today it’s mainstream enough that the worried parents of some of my unmarried friends urge them to keep their online
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Good Reads: a new study on God and civilization
The Christian Science Monitor: In The New York Times, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee writes on how learning a second language at an early age makes your brain work better. Psychologists once worried that kids who lived in
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Relationships Between Facebook Intensity, Self-Esteem, and Personality
My name is Terry Pettijohn from Coastal Carolina University, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC.
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Why Rose-Colored Glasses May Be Just What the Relationship Doc Ordered
Glamour: Yeah, we all know there’s no such thing as the perfect guy (OK, maybe 69 percent perfect), but when we’re happy and in love, some of us think our guys are sent from heaven
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Be Nice To Yourself
Prevention: “Be kind to yourself.” If you keep good company, someone has probably uttered these words to you at some point, maybe during a particularly hard spell, or at a time when you were being
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Refining the Formula That Predicts Celebrity Marriages’ Doom
The New York Times: In 2006, Garth Sundem and I confronted one of the great unsolved mysteries in social science: Exactly how soon will a given celebrity marriage blow up? Drawing on Garth’s statistical expertise
