personality
Thinking vs feeling. What's your approach to relationships?
A funny thing happened on the way to a party recently. It was a work party for my friend Dave's venture capital firm. He was going with Mary, his longtime girlfriend who, just a few weeks earlier, he had asked to marry him.
As the couple was about to enter the party, Mary stopped, turned to her fiancé and asked, "Do you think what I’m wearing is okay?"
Dave gave her an appraising look and said, "You look great. But you probably could have worn different shoes." (Insert collective gasp here.)
This is not the funny thing that happened. The … Read More
So you're pretty sure your husband isn't your soul mate. Rest assured. You're not alone.
More than half of women recently surveyed by AOL Living and Women's Day magazine say their husbands are not their soul mates, that they sometimes regret marrying their husbands, and that they have considered leaving their husbands at some point or another.
A part of us finds all of this a little surprising. Another part thinks, well, duh.
Let's break things down further, shall we? We'll start with the good stuff.
Of the 35,000 women surveyed, nearly 50 percent say that their husbands' personalities were the first thing that attracted them and more than 50 percent say that their husbands' personalities … Read More
Ever wondered how and why you become attracted to someone or how to know if they're feeling the same way? And, for those of you with long-term lovers: How can you get back those first feelings of tingly chemistry? Beverly Palmer, Ph.D. and professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, whose area of expertise includes the science behind attraction, love, sexuality and flirting, answers these questions and more. Read on, as she reveals the number-one sign of passion and five ways to rekindle it once it fades.
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How a couple handles stressful infertility treatments is based on personality, researchers find.
Belgian researchers find that how a couple copes with infertility is determined more by their personalities and the nature of their relationship than by the ins and outs of the treatment itself, reports Reuters.
Dr. Benedicte Lowyck and her team of researchers at the University of Leuven studied 70 couples undergoing reproduction through in-vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Each couple completed tests to identify their sense of well-being and the strength of their relationship at three points during the infertility treatment: when they started the treatment, three months into the treatment, and six months into the treatment.
Taking a second look may lead to the ultimate attraction.
You've been compared to Angelina Jolie. He's more of a Steve Carell. Should you take him up on his lunch-date offer?This is the dilemma I have often faced during my college years (aside from the part about looking like Angie), and I faced it once again last Thursday.I was pre-gaming with some guy friends, their friends, and the friends of those friends, when one of them (unfortunately not the Abercrombie model look-alike with whom I'd been flirting) came up to me and asked, "Do you remember when you turned me down at Shooters (a local club)?" My face turned … Read More
Dr. Helen Fisher, world renowned biological anthropologist, discusses her book Why Him? Why Her?, which explains the connection between biology and human attraction. She's identified four main personality types: Explorer, Builder, Director and Negotiator. Take a quiz to find out your personality type and learn more about Dr. Helen Fisher here.
In dating and marriage personality type determines who makes a good match, says Helen Fisher.
What's your type? Talk, dark and handsome? Short, bald and chubby? Muscular, unavailable and angry? How about Explorer, Builder, Negotiator or Director? These are the four personality types that anthropologist Helen Fisher coined during her research into why we fall in love with certain people but not others. According to Fisher, interpreting these types can help you navigate the dating ocean and net the perfect tuna (or man, if that's what you prefer).
Fisher, author of Why We Love: the Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, built on her investigation of genetics and neurochemistry for her latest book, … Read More
Good news for psycho-narcissists.
Good news for a******s everywhere!
A new study shows a 'dark triad' of Spencer Pratt-ian personality traits -- a narcissist's self-obsession, a Machiavellian's deceit and a psychopath's callous behavior -- are just the lust-cocktail some guys serve up get ladies in the sack, says New Scientist magazine.
Two hundred college students took personality tests and were also asked about their number of sexual partners. Only the young men showed a direct correlation between 'dark' traits,' like narcissism, and notches on the bed post. Another study of 35,000 people across 57 countries found a similar … Read More
Wondering if he's The One? Five activities that show a man's worth.
When Le'Anne Moreau agreed to a date involving touch football, she had already assumed the guy wasn't a good match for her. He was too shy and not adventurous enough. But out on the field, her thoughts were intercepted when she tripped and sprained her ankle. That's when he sprang into action.
"He picked me up and brought me ice," Moreau recalls. "The date should have been over. Instead, he bought a picnic and brought it to me." What could have been a disastrous date stretched into the evening and morphed into a five-year relationship.
"The date showed not only … Read More
