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For your health, pick a mate who is conscientious and, perhaps, also neurotic

For your health, pick a mate who is conscientious and, perhaps, also neurotic

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Conscientiousness is a good thing in a mate, researchers report, not just because it's easier to live with someone who washes the dishes without being asked, but also because having a conscientious partner ...





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Study shows gay couples want legal rights, regardless of marriage

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research from North Carolina State University shows that gay and lesbian couples are forming long-term, committed relationships, even in the absence of the right to marry. However, couples surveyed for the study overwhelmingly ...


Half of your friends lost in seven years

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 8

Had a good chat with someone recently? Has a good friend just helped you to do up your home? Then you will be lucky if that person still does that in seven years time. Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst investigated how the context ...


Marital problems lead to poorer outcomes for breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer patients who have a poor relationship with their spouse may face a more difficult road to recovery than would other women, according to a new study.


Parents: Slow Down and Get Off the Marriage-Go-Round

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

After a divorce or break-up, parents need to be very cautious about bringing new love interests into their homes, according to Andrew Cherlin, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.


Family stability may be more crucial than two parents for child success

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The advantage that children get from living in two-parent families may actually be due to family stability more than the fact that their parents are married. A new study finds that children who who are born and grow up in ...


Brain noise is a good thing

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created Jul 04, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Canadian scientists have shown that a noisy brain is a healthy brain.


Scientists find universal rules for food-web stability

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The findings, published in this week's issue of Science, conclude that food-web stability is enhanced when many diverse predator-prey links connect high and intermediate trophic levels. The computations also reveal that s ...


Long-term care workers struggle with elderly population boom

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As America's aging population increases, so does its need for long-term care. And the workers who provide these services often lack the support they need — particularly in the area of pay and work relationships, according ...


Couples to rely on male contraceptive for new trial

Couples to rely on male contraceptive for new trial

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Couples are being asked to replace their usual form of birth control with a new male contraceptive in a study to test its effectiveness.


Researchers show early life nurturing impacts later life relationships

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated that prairie voles may be a useful model in understanding the neurochemistry of social behavior. By influencing early social ...



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