A little humor goes a long way, especially when you’re bargaining. Find out how.

Why high self-monitoring helps you get more friends and job promotions, but may not be so good for your dating relationships.

Why do people perform relatively poorly when it comes to their accuracy in assessing the personality attributes of potential mates? Was Kant right?

As someone who loves great food, I thought this article in the New York Times was particularly interesting. It discussed how different food choices could be stressful on relationships. Discover what other studies say about why sharing food in your relationships may be important.

From the UCLA Newsroom:
One of our Advisory Board Members and professor at UCLA, Dr. Tom Bradbury, is now offering seminars for couples on relationship functioning, and what couples can do to keep their relationship strong. He and his colleague Dr. Benjamin Karney (also a professor at UCLA) have founded the Relationship Institute [...]

According to research conducted by Andrew Gulledge and his colleagues, daily behaviors can be important in expressing love and affection, and they can also be good for your relationship. Find out how men and women differ in their preferences for certain types of physical affection.

OK, no pressure, but today is a pretty big day if you’re in a relationship. Today is Valentine’s Day and you hopefully got a present for your partner and will (hopefully) receive one in return. Flowers, chocolate, jewelry, it’s all a possibility. You probably have a special time set up today to have dinner, [...]

Men and women express different emotions in their Valentine’s Day announcments.

Recent research found that socializing could be just as important for the brain as completing more high-minded, intellectual tasks. Read why, then go out with your friends and discuss.

Parents worry about the well being of their children, no matter how old they are. And children worry about their parents, especially as parents get older and health conditions arise. Find out how worrying might benefit your relationship.

If your family was anything like my family you were teased unmercifully as a child. Two of my older cousins seem to take great pleasure in teasing me constantly about whatever they could think up, and if they made me cry the teasing just got worse. I learned to dish it out eventually, [...]

The gaze of attraction is no small thing. In a recent study, Claire Conway and colleagues investigated the effect eye contact had in ratings of attraction. Discover what they found.

When you can visualize success, you’re apt to increase your motivation, work harder, and ultimately perform better. Recent research tell us how to maximize our daydreaming time.

Imagine this: you are in a conference room with a few of your colleagues chatting while waiting for a meeting to start. Your boss, also engaged in the conversation, contributes by telling an ammusing joke about a talking muffin. Do you laugh? Now imagine instead of boss, the joke was told by a coworker or someone who reports to you. Does the status of the person change anything about how much you laugh?