True love could be hiding inside mounds of data.
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Trying to optimize the search for love can be naive. Using statistics and measurements isn’t necessarily the best way to find a human partner.
You should see the one that got away.
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Online lies can often be easy to detect, by searching for images and phone numbers and exploring social media profiles. Some people lie anyway – and countless others take the bait.
Gee, you shouldn’t have.
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The problems from a disappointing gift don’t end once you’ve awkwardly thanked the giver and tossed the wrapping paper.
What better gift this Christmas than a peace offering?
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Forgiveness isn’t about minimising or forgetting the pain we feel. It’s about letting go of our feelings of resentment and revenge.
More and more Americans are choosing to be single.
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Singles can face mistaken stereotypes and value judgments that they are less happy, or lonelier. For many, being single is simply a relationship preference or even an orientation.
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Children need be able to identify potentially harmful sexual behaviours, including sexting, from a young age.
Learning in community is linked to better academic performance and gains in skill, competence and knowledge as well as overall satisfaction with university experience. Pictured here, a regular discussion and learning event at Concordia University.
Undergraduate students need a learning community that meets throughout their degrees for workshops and community-building. Such a post-secondary ‘homeroom’ could multiply positive connections.
Addressing Canada’s health inequities through the health-care system will only take us so far. Real change will require listening to Indigenous stories, which teach about our relationships to one another as human beings, and between us and our four-legged, winged, finned, rooted and non-rooted relations.
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To improve Indigenous health in Canada we need more Indigenous health professionals and more culturally competent health-care providers. We also need to listen properly to Indigenous stories.
Before they walk down the aisle, many couples want to own a house, have a bank account and have a job that offers health insurance.
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A new study suggests that Americans face an ‘economic bar’ to marriage. Before they walk down the aisle, many couples want to have a house, a bank account and a job that offers health insurance.
Researchers have found people use the ‘like’ button on social media posts for many reasons.
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The ‘like’ button does far more than just express how much a person likes a particular picture or post. It could be used to make social comparisons.
Funny haha.
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The way you and your partner use humour can shape your relationship, and even break it up.
Feeling secure?
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Knowing what your attachment style is can help you navigate life’s ups and downs a bit better.
Successful therapy involves collaboration. Both therapist and client work at maintaining a positive relationship and need to continuously respond and adjust to the other.
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Therapy works. But success has little to do with your therapist’s experience, gender, graduate degree, or even the school of therapy they practise.
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The Wife: my research shows that this self-sacrificing form of wifehood is hardly history.
Physical violence in dating relationships has decreased over the past decade among youth, but boys are still reporting higher rates of dating violence, according to a recent study.
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Surprisingly, a study of more than 35,000 Canadian adolescents shows that boys report higher rates of dating victimization than girls.
‘Married, you say?’
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People kept diaries for two weeks recording how often things about them were forgotten. The results turned out to be surprising.
What sort of signal does holding a door for a woman send?
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Social psychologists have been busy documenting the harmful effects that this brand of chivalry has on women. But are they missing something?
Doing the dishes, laundry, ironing, cooking, feeding the baby are not solely the wife’s job, but also the responsibility of the husband.
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A survey in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, shows the more flexible the roles of men and women in the family, the happier they are.
The lies most people tell on dating apps do serve a purpose.
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Researchers analyzed troves of messages sent between matches and found that the fibs people tell are usually rational ones that serve a purpose.
New research suggests that midlife Canadians struggle with a variety of sexual problems, with low desire reported as most common for both men and women.
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Low libido, problems ejaculating, vaginal pain – these problems are common for midlife Canadians, and some of them are way more likely if you’re married.