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women respond to commitment in advertising

Women Want Commitment... From TV Ads?

Research into how men and women respond to sexual messages.

Historically, researchers have found women to be turned off by racy ads showing excessive nudity and sexual language. New experiments are showing, though, that the problem for advertisers may not be that sex doesn't sell to women, but rather that women don't often agree with the way sex is portrayed.

How To Deal With Breakups

How To Deal With Breakups [VIDEO]

Watch what NOT to do when giving someone the boot.

Bad breakups aren't fun for anyone, but good breakups are hard to come by. Avoid all the pitfalls of breaking up the wrong way on this episode of Love U. Is it ok to break up by text message? What counts as a bad breakup?

Ever Want to Just Leave A Message?

Ever Want to Just Leave A Message?

Slydial makes it happen.

Communication response times have come far from the days of smoke signals. We can send and receive messages in the blink of an eye via text, phone, e-mail, Facebook, MySpace, instant message, the list goes on. This is a good thing. Except when it's not. For example, on the occasions when you really need to return a bad blind date's or your mother-in-law's phone call. It would be rude not to, but it's late, your throat is bone dry from talking all day and there's a Scrubs rerun on TV. A text might come off as too curt, an e-mail as inviting of further dialogue. Wouldn't it be nice to just leave a voicemail, thereby putting the ball back into your recipient's court?