Student Debt as a Moral Issue
Large student loan debt is an urgent economic concern for university students; but it is also becoming a pressing moral concern for the faculty.read more
View ArticleGreat Sex: The Recipe
Everyone wants great sex. But what makes great sex great? Popular magazines push technical prowess and variety as the crucial ingredients of great sex. But scientific data suggest otherwise.read more
View ArticleThe Cougar Conundrum
Cougars (older women in relationships with younger men) may serve an important social function, and their increasing visibility is a signal of rapidly changing gender roles and expectations.read more
View ArticleAnnouncing the Real Election Winner
For those who believe in the unique power of the scientific method to referee competing claims, figure out actual truths about how the world works, and guide successful adaptations, the recent election...
View ArticleBystanders and Heroes: The Dance of Defiance and Conformity
The presence of others affects our behavior, but not always in the same way. The presence of others may inhibit helping behavior. At other times, however, it may enable and sustain heroic efforts.read...
View ArticleRed Alert: Science Discovers The Color of Sexual Attraction
When it comes to sexual attraction, we respond to many unconscious cues regarding potential mates. One of those appears to be the color red.read more
View ArticleShoes, Marshmallows and Dogs: Mental Health 101
For improved mental health, learn the basic rules for managing thought, behavior, and emotion.read more
View ArticleShoes, Marshmallows and Dogs: Mental Health 101, Part 2
In addition to accurate thinking, discussed earlier, learning the basic principles of effective behavior and emotion management can lead to better mental health.read more
View ArticleCan Your Sexual Debut Predict Your Future?
Most of us don’t remember every time we had sex, but we remember the first time…read more
View ArticleThe Price of Sex: Women Rule, Men Drool, the Market's Cruel
Can viewing heterosexual sex from an economic perspective that sees women as sellers and men as buyers deepen our understanding of our sexual behavior?read more
View ArticleIf Only... Gender Differences in Sexual Regret
New research suggests that men and women differ in what they regret about casual sex. Why? Evolution may be involved.read more
View ArticleThe Folly of Frequently Foregoing Foreplay
It is well accepted, with regard to varied goals and pursuits, that preparation improves performance and facilitates succes. And yet when it comes to sexual intercourse, adequate preparation is often...
View ArticleYour Happiness and Health Don't Belong to You
Our happiness and health are not individual characteristics that reside within ourselves but social properties, defined and shaped by our social rank, judgments, and comparisons.read more
View ArticleFact and Faith: Combatants or Collaborators?
On the surface, our need to believe and our need to know appear to be in constant conflict, but on a deeper level, they are close collaborators.read more
View ArticleWhat’s in a Kiss?
Recent research suggests that we kiss for different reasons, depending on gender and relationship type.read more
View ArticleMating Motives: Hook Up Orgasms and Relationship Mercy Sex
New studies show that women achieve orgasm less frequently in hook up sex as compared to sex in a relationship. But that may not mean the sex is not worth having. In understanding both hook up and...
View ArticleFeminine Foes: New Science Explores Female Competition
A host of studies in recent years have shown convincingly that the traditional view of women as passive and uncompetitive is wrong. Women, it turns out, are engaged in a competition of their own,...
View ArticleSexual Satisfaction: Highly Valued, Poorly Understood
Sexual satisfaction is an easy concept to grasp, but not to study. Despite recent advances, we are still far away from a thorough understanding of the causes and implications of this important...
View ArticleWhy Aren't We Talking to Our Partners About Sex?
We love to read about it, watch it on TV, in the movies, and on the Internet. We even enjoy having it. But talk to our partners about sex, the sex that we are—or about to be—having? Not so much.read more
View ArticleSexual Communication 2: Non-Bedroom Edition
Parents could help their children, and physicians their patients, if they had the courage and the skills to broach the topic of sex. They don’t.read more
View ArticleIt Wasn’t That Good for Me: Gender Differences in First Sex
Remember the first time you had sex? How pleasurable was it for you? How anxious were you? How guilty did you feel? The answer depends in great part on your gender.read more
View ArticleDo We Communicate More Intimately Online Than in Person?
Do we communicate more honestly and intimately online than in person? Or is ‘cyber intimacy’ a contradiction in terms? read more
View ArticleSilence of the Facts: Sexual Values Aren’t Beholden to Data
Science can discover what was, observe what is, and predict what will be. But it is agnostic on the question of what should be.read more
View ArticleAftersex: New Science Explores the Meaning of Pillow Talk
The time period right after intercourse may serve an important function in solidifying relationshipsread more
View ArticleLooking for a Soul Mate? You’re Looking for Trouble.
The idea of the soul mate is great for what it is: glorious fiction. In real life, it may be a recipe for trouble.read more
View ArticleFast Company: Figuring Out Premature Ejaculation
Premature ejaculation has been around a long time. But it is now better understood and treated than in the past. read more
View ArticleWhy Do Men Sexually Assault Women?
More often than not, sexual violence against women is an expression—rather than a violation—of deep themes within the American social consciousness. read more
View ArticleLaws of Attraction: How Do We Select a Life Partner?
What makes two people pick one another from among the myriad available candidates? Psychology studies have long been trying to answer this question, and with considerable success.read more
View ArticleHow to Win the War on Worry
The solution to the problem of excessive worry is in asking the right questions.read more
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