Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran A researcher in France recently published a paper on flowers and their ability to convey romance. He had a young man in a mall asking women for their phone number. The young man did this either in a flower shop, a cake shop, or a women’s shoe Read more…
Not to report too much on Facebook, but an interesting study was published over the summer about how Facebook photos predict later happiness. It was a small study, but in it, researchers coded a single Facebook picture for both men and women at their first semester of college and then compared that to their ratings of life satisfaction 3 1/2 years Read more…
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently looked at dating couples’ use of Facebook and how it related to their relationship. In the couples that they studied, each partner had a similar amount of Facebook use and portrayed their relationship in similar ways. But it gets more interesting… When men indicated on Facebook that they were in a relationship, both they Read more…
Here at CI, we’ve talked a lot about the importance of empathy. Here’s some recent research to back it up. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Bryn Mawr College examined empathy in 156 couples. In particular they were interested if people needed to be accurate in their attempts at empathy (i.e., really know how their partner was feeling) in order to Read more…
Back in the days before electricity, families gathered around the fire to talk about their day, share stories, and maybe even sing. These days, while we don’t have a fire to gather around, we do have a dinner table to fill this function. Recently, a studywas conducted by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Minnesota. They used data Read more…
