The couples were measured for physiological responses like heart rate and respiration. Later, trained coders analyzed the tapes for emotional responses such as anger, sadness and humor. “These give us a pretty good snapshot of the nature of their relationship,” says study senior author Robert Levenson, a UC Berkeley psychology professor.
Trying to stop a bad habit can take a lot of effort. The thing you try to “fight” or push away, can easily become the focus of your mind. The more you try to stop thinking of chocolate, the more you can obsess about it. From a psychological perspective, it is always easier to start a new habit rather than stop an old one.
One particularly odd (and persistent) myth about the medieval world, recently brought back to life in the pages of The Economist, is the idea that childhood “didn’t exist” in the Middle Ages and that parents had a “relative lack of interest” in their offspring.
Child-development experts agree that almost any family, however imperfect, is better than none at all. It does not even have to last for ever, only long enough to provide a safe and warm space for those crucial early years. That is just as well, because today’s families are very different from those of a few decades ago.
This new term has become popular recently among Chinese netizens and it has a special meaning: getting married without a house, car, diamond ring or a proper wedding ceremony.
Happy New Year: As the year 2018 comes to a close, it is time to make to resolutions for the next year. Here are some resolutions for 2019, which parents can make with their children, for a happy and prosperous year ahead.