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As I dug a little deeper into the work behind the love articles, I found that some of the people responsible for the science felt it held fewer definitive answers than we want to believe. One of them was Arthur Aron, the Stony Brook research psychologist whose work the Times glossed in “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This.”
One study investigating why living in the gay community increases depression found that the effect only showed up in masculine gay guys. The second reason the gay community acts as a unique stressor on its members is not about why we reject each other, but how.
The videos begin with both people saying, “We listen and we don’t judge” in unison. Many creators, however, seem to struggle with the not judging part, responding with shocked faces and open ...
Another reason why we love who we love has to do with culture and history. [4]: 371 Take incest, for example. In some Western cultures, falling in love with one's first cousin could be seen as possibly 'taboo' and therefore morally and lawfully wrong. However, it is legal to marry one's cousin in many Western countries, e.g. the UK.
“We usually take away a lot of opportunities to have some semblance of something we want to experience,” Abrams said. Considering the middle ground can help — maybe you don’t go to a ...
The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them. An explanation for this is cognitive dissonance. People reason that they help others because they like them, even if they do not, because their minds struggle to maintain logical consistency between their actions and perceptions.
Chapman is perhaps best known for his concept of "Five Love Languages", helping people express and receive love through one of five "languages," specifically: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. Chapman argues that, while each of these languages is enjoyed to some degree by all people, a ...
Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks says Americans ignore common sense solutions on race relations because of the the benefits elite groups get from treating a ‘formerly oppressed ...