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Sep 13 Across 85 couples filmed in a laboratory, the people whose partners gave the most practical and emotional support while… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 In a panel of 1,911 young adults, moving in with a partner or getting married went with seeing your parents less often… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 Fifty toddlers played with toys for an hour while a game show ran in the background, and although they glanced at the… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 The temperament typology that gave us the phrase easy child was revised this year using 1,260 adults, and only 13… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 Two studies on different continents found that the quality of a grandparent relationship predicted how grandchildren… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 Wired to electrodes and guessing whether a snake was hiding under a rock, 45 people were most stressed not when a shock… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 13 Shown both sides of a contradiction, American undergraduates rated the more plausible one higher than people who had… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 Across 2.7 million posts, each individual term referring to the political out-group raised the odds of a share by 67… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 A meta-analysis of 27 studies and 4,045 people put the wellbeing gain from performing kindness at about 0.6 points on a… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 A 15-year study of more than 24,000 Germans found people did not fully return to their former life satisfaction after… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 An instrumental-variable study found the apparent link between retirement and worse cognition may not be causal, with… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 Across 145 studies, people offered a choice picked an upward comparison 75.6 percent of the time, and contrast rather… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 A meta-analysis of 88 samples and 66,807 people found grit correlated with conscientiousness at .84 and added almost… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 In a two-study diary paper, emotional self-disclosure was associated with intimacy while factual disclosure was not The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 Asked why they were estranged, 546 parents and 352 adult children gave systematically different answers The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 Being fashionably late needs a fixed start time to be late to, and a study of clock accuracy and walking speed found… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 In a German longitudinal study, entering an empty nest was not associated with adjusted changes in parents' loneliness… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 A 2003 review found no evidence that boosting self-esteem produces the benefits claimed for it, and a meta-analysis of… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 In a randomized trial of 124 anxious children aged 7 to 14, treating only the parents by reducing how much they… The Artful Age Editorial Team
Sep 12 A meta-analysis of 102 studies and 32,648 people found trait self-control was more strongly associated with automatic… The Artful Age Editorial Team