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Two-Thirds of Romantic Couples Start Out as Friends, Study Finds
Movies and television often show romance sparking when two strangers meet. Real-life couples, however, are far more likely to begin as friends. Two-thirds of romantic relationships start out platonically, a new study in Social Psychological and Personality Science finds.
Blaming COVID-19 can help couples weather pandemic-related stress
Relationships are often undermined by everyday frustrations like work stress or financial anxiety, but how do couples handle a challenge as unprecedented as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Americans Protect Their Reputation By Thinking About the Future, Shows New study
Research has shown that people who engage in future thinking are better at achieving their long-term goals. It seems this future-thinking may also apply to reputation protection.
People can be convinced to practice social distancing if they believe it will protect others
People place more emphasis on the health of others than themselves, especially when they see public health as a moral issue.
Looking up to the Joneses: Consequences of the perceptions of white wealth
In a pair of studies, social psychologists propose that widespread perceptions that white people are wealthy, and that Black people are poor, may shape the way people experience their own status.
Religious believers think God values the lives of out-group members more than they do themselves
Belief in all powerful supernatural entities that police moral behavior between people has been shown to promote prosocial behavior between co-religionists. But do these effects extend to members of different religious groups?
Does “Heart on Your Sleeve” Equal “See What You Get”?
Are the people that wear their heart on their sleeves the same people that we describe as “what you see is what you get”?
Beauty is in the Psychophysics of the Beholder
When we compare faces, we’re not analyzing exact differences, but rather how the faces stack up next to each other.