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Positive Psychology and the Importance of Close Relationships in TV Sitcoms: That 70s Show, Entourage, and How I Met Your Mother

... to people’s lives. These relationships seem to provide psychological nourishment, giving people motivation and confidence to branch ... Research has shown that the degree to which people accept dependence on close others for support, they engage in more independent ... / more

The Anatomy of Love

... Self-disclosure and liking: a meta-analytic review.  Psychological Bulletin, 119, 51-69. Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. ... relationship. An investment model analysis of nonvoluntary dependence.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 558-571. ... / more

Why We Are Still Social

... humans to exploit rainforests and tundra, but that create dependence on collective knowledge and cooperative information sharing. Humans ... The synchrony in two people’s walking is a product of psychological mechanisms coordinating perception and action. It requires ... / more

From candidate genes to genome-wide association studies

... In my last post I asked where the genes for psychological traits are, and argued that over the last two decades candidate ... at best. One example illustrates this well. Tobacco dependence has for a long time been thought to be principally due to the ... / more

Internet, dating, addiction: A match made in heaven

... the word addiction as a construct (or term), comparable to psychological constructs like extraversion or fear of missing out. ... as substance use disorder (earlier: substance abuse or dependence). Beyond substance use, the APA’s DSM -5-TR recognizes only ... / more

Trapped by tranquility: Understanding dependence on benzodiazepines

... their calming effects can quietly lead to physical and psychological dependence . This piece explores how that reliance develops and why withdrawal ... / more