After the intensity of early courtship, even a healthy, happy relationship can feel lackluster. Psychology researchers have ideas for what can help you perk up your relationship rather than give up.
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Love requires imagination. What happens when this imagination spirals?
This Valentine’s Day, a researcher reveals some insights after conducting interviews with young university undergrads to explore their sex lives, dating and intimacy.
China has 24 million more men than women of marriageable age, putting some bachelors in a tough spot. Some are now looking abroad for wives – and many have their hearts set on Vietnam.
App users recognise dating apps have some risks but they’ve developed a range of strategies to help them feel safer and to better negotiate consent and safe sex.
A feminist scholar wrote about her online dating experiences. She wasn’t expecting the avalanche of negative anti-feminist comments.
Freedom of choice is a pillar of Western culture. But can too much of it be a bad thing?
If you’re overlooking potential romantic partners because they’re not who you envisioned as ‘the one’, it might be time to reassess your approach.
Many of us go through life in the hope of finding the ideal soulmate – our missing half. The reason may be deeply embedded in religious beliefs.
In some Nigerian universities, wealthy female students engage in trasnactional sex for pleasure, while those that needed financial support did it for the money.
In the late 1970s, 52 percent of 12th-graders hung out with their friends almost every day. By 2017, only 28 percent were doing so.
South Korea is facing a low fertility trend. Valentine’s Day serves as a reminder to help ease the domestic burden on young women so they can consider partnerships again.
A cold, logical list of attributes sought in a partner is cast aside by the hot emotions that come up in real life. A psychology researcher explains how this ‘hot-cold empathy gap’ works in dating.
It might be human nature to undervalue what’s chugging along doing fine while imagining there’s a mythical ‘best’ partner out there somewhere. A psychology researcher has advice.
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.
Surprisingly, a study of more than 35,000 Canadian adolescents shows that boys report higher rates of dating victimization than girls.
Social psychologists have been busy documenting the harmful effects that this brand of chivalry has on women. But are they missing something?
Why are we so serious about not being too serious? The philosophy of humour has the answer.
Despite the claims of online dating services, there is little scientific evidence that using self-reported data for matchmaking can lead to long-term compatibility.
The two cultural norms, which may on the surface seem completely different, are starting to converge.
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Associate Professor, School of Health Studies, Western University
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Academic, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Relationships, University of South Wales
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British Academy postdoctoral fellow, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Washington
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Professor in Social Psychology / Relationship Science, Deakin University
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Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Federation University Australia
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Relationships Expert & Psychology Educator at the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia