The Truth About Dating: The year of the cheaters

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Too much emphasis placed on appearance

By Steve Penner
In a recent article published in USA Today, Todd Shackleford, a psychology professor at Florida Atlantic University, who has been studying infidelity for more than 20 years, states that people with low scores on personality tests that measure conscientiousness and high scores on openness to experience also are [...]

“Complicated” simplifies mature romance

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By: Kirk Honeycutt
(Pic)-Cast member Meryl Streep arrives for the world premiere of ‘It’s Complicated’ in New York December 9, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – “It’s Complicated” is a middle-aged sex comedy but with more rom-com urges than farcical ones.
It’s from writer-director Nancy Meyers, who has found a comfort zone in gentle, even warm [...]

Cheating? Hello, you’ve got e-trail

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Technological gains may render one person extinct in adultery: The blindsided dupe
By Monica Hesse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Cheating scenario, 1989:
There were errant signs. Like the times you phoned the office and it rang and rang (”I was in the conference room,” he said), like the matchbooks from places with names like the Candlelight [...]

New psychology class could offer relationship advice

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by Courtney Kerrigan
Course defines the ‘hook-up,’ other new relationship terms
“It’s complicated” – that’s the typical and oh-so-familiar phrase that many couples use to describe their relationships, or lack thereof.
But while both men and women search for a solution to the confusing terminology, the psychology department is offering a class in the spring that may provide [...]

Why do married couples cheat?

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by Gregory Boyce
Over the last week the world has been fairly saturated and tuned-in with golfing legend Tiger Woods’ admission to committing transgressions against his wife and family. Tiger Wood’s once stellar image that made him enormously rich in terms of commercial appeal, is now slightly tarnished. As most of the world rhetorically asks, “how [...]

Empowering Women through “Empowering Hearts”

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By: Jessica Walker
I had a wonderful opportunity on November 12th to participate in the first annual “Empowering Hearts” event dedicated to raising awareness of domestic violence and abuse.  This event was extremely informative and opened my eyes to the amount of women exposed to this type of violence.  In fact, I was very surprised to [...]

Fans seek midnight romance under light of “New Moon”

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Fans lined up Thursday night at movie theaters to be among the first to get bitten by the “New Moon” phenomenon, the sequel to last year’s “Twilight.” The vampire romance movie ended up setting a box office record of $26.3 million for those midnight screenings by drawing fans like the ones profiled in our Fan [...]

FoxSexpert: Has ‘Female Viagra’ Finally Arrived?

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Friday, November 20, 2009
By Yvonne Fulbright
The long-awaited breakthrough in women’s sexual dysfunction may be here. German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) GmbH claims to have made a pill that will awaken female sexual desire.
This Prince Charming of investigational compounds promises to arouse Cinderella by decreasing inhibitions. This experimental desire drug plays with her mind literally, working [...]

Romantic Rivalries Stir Religious Feelings

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Rivals on the dating scene could make one feel closer to God, according to new research that suggests one’s religiousness may be more closely related to mating strategies than previously known.
In experiments with 269 college students, researchers found that both men and women apparently felt more religious when they saw attractive potential competitors.
Social psychologists had [...]

Is It OK for Women to Be Breadwinners?

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Two Marie Claire writers weigh in with male and female perspectives on whether or not they feel a woman who brings home the bacon is a good or a bad thing.

By Diana Vilibert and Abraham Lloyd
Source: Lifestyle.msn.com
She Said: I grew up in a single-parent home with my mother who, by default, was (and remains) the [...]

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