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Edited by Jill Wright,
It's not the sort of journal to which one would normally turn for marital advice, but the latest version of the Harvard Business Review has an important message for its readers: if you want success, marry a conscientious spouse. The article is based on psychologists' study of data collected on thousands of Australian households to analyse the effects on people's...
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The wedding business is going to be delighted with at least one of the recommendations from research undertaken by the US National Marriage Project into the factors that make for healthy marriages. According to the report, titled "Before 'I Do'",couples who want to maximise their chances for long-term wedded bliss should splash out on a BIG wedding, with at least...
Edited by Jill Wright,
All the members of the team of Melbourne psychologists with expertise in relationships have a lot of respect for the work of John Gottman, and the insights he gained working in the so-called "love lab" at the University of Washington. Over at Psyblog, Jeremy Dean obviously shares that respect. He has posted on "The Four Things That Can Kill A Relationship Stone...
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Psychologists call it "spillover" - the transferring of experiences from one domain to another. A new theoretical model based on data in an ongoing 2008 study suggests that marital interaction is a predictor of outcomes in both an individual's physical and mental health and his or her work outcomes. Essentially, the work by the School of Family Life at Brigham...
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More conservative generations might scoff at online dating and socially-networked romancing as being somehow less than authentic, but according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US, marriages that begin on the Internet are marginally less likely to result in separation or divorce. Given that the study indicates more than one third of the people who...