Friendship

What Type of Flirt Are You?

You can learn a lot about someone by how they flirt, including someone’s personality, attitudes and beliefs about courtship, self-presentation tendencies, and even past relationship behaviors. Knowing a potential partner’s flirting style may make it easier to determine if their dating attitudes and beliefs are similar to yours.

I’ll Have What She’s Having (but only if she’s good looking)

With so many choices and too little time, how can women know the good guys from the bad guys with just one glance?

How to Look on the Brightside

Are you as sick of celebrity infidelity news items as I am? Read on to learn how we can take a stand and celebrate the good people around us instead of concentrating on the duds.

I am a Success Story (and you can be too!)

Read on to discover how losing focus can help you to find what you’re looking for.

Relationships get better with age

Recent studies show that older people have better relationships. What is the secret to their success?

You can get by with a little help from your friends…

New research contends that our social relationships- or lack thereof- should be considered just as dangerous to our health as smoking, obesity, and lack of exercise.

It's a great life if you don't weaken: social resources and perception of distress

A number of studies have suggested that we perceive others level of distress quite differently based on how many social resources we feel we have at the moment. In other words when we feel supported by others we tend not to feel as overwhelmed by stressful situations.

Remembering birthdays is easier when it's close to your own

Remembering birthdays close to your own birthday as an example of the egocentric bias in temporal memory.

I forgive you, but my friend doesn't

Why friends may be less forgiving than we are for our partner’s transgressions.

Food Preferences Impact Relationships

As someone who loves great food, I thought this article in the New York Times was particularly interesting. It discussed how different food choices could be stressful on relationships. Discover what other studies say about why sharing food in your relationships may be important.