7 Ways The 7 Deadly Sins Can Help Your Dating Life
Author of new book "The Science Of Sin" explains how gluttony, sloth & more can help your love life.
4 PM production /Shutterstock Our guest blogger today is social psychologist Simon H. Laham, PhD, author of the engaging new book, The Science of Sin, The Psychology of the Seven Deadlies (and why they are so good for you), which is available today. It's fascinating!
Have you ever broken up with someone for being too lazy? Too proud? How about too greedy?
Pride, greed, gluttony, sloth, envy, anger and lust — the seven deadly sins — get a pretty bad rap in western culture, but a closer look at the scientific record suggests that even these deadliest of vices might not be so deadly after all.
Here are just a few of the upsides of the seven deadlies that you might keep in mind the next time your partner or your date veer to the sinful side.
Gluttony makes you generous. Recent research shows that people who are hungry are less likely to donate to charity than those who are full. This research is based on the finding that various rewarding stimuli (e.g., food and money) are processed in the same part of the brain and are thus, in some sense, substitutable. So a hungry person may not only crave cake but also cash and thus be more likely to hold onto any spare money that's lying around.
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