Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Gayle Brewer, University of Central Lancashire
Exploring mate selection reveals the complex interplay of physical traits and health indicators that influence attraction. From body shape to dental aesthetics, various factors play a crucial role in how individuals assess potential partners. Programs like Naked Attraction highlight these dynamics, prompting discussions about the significance of appearance and underlying health cues in human relationships.
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- Written by: Betty Lai, Georgia State University
Louisiana’s historic floods have killed at least eight people. As many as 20,000 others have been rescued and thousands have been forced into shelters.
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- Written by: Patrina Ha Yuen Caldwell, University of Sydney
Bed-wetting is surprisingly common in older children and young adults. Lack of public awareness and stigma associated with bed-wetting means few seek professional help despite successful treatments being available.
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- Written by: Hannah Hickey, University of Washington
Twins tend to live longer than people who aren’t twins, and identical twins live even longer, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Itai Ivtzan
How can you free yourself from being lost in your thoughts? To understand the answer we must examine the chain reaction of thought. Every thought that passes through your mind sets the background for the next one. Your attention keeps reacting to each thought in a way that makes way for the next. For example...
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- Written by: Luke Pilling, University of Exeter and Janice Atkins, University of Exeter
The longer your parents live, the more likely you are to live longer and have a healthy heart. These are the results of our latest study of nearly 200,000 volunteers.
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- Written by: Amanda Williams, University of Bristol
It’s a situation that many parents dread. Encountering a black man in the street for the first time, a white child might loudly ask something like: “Mummy, why does that man have dirty skin?”
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- Written by: Barbara Berger
You can only take care of yourself if you know yourself. You can only make good choices for yourself if you know yourself. You can only set limits if you know yourself. But to know yourself you have to be able to answer basic questions like...
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- Written by: Janet Rose and Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus, Bath Spa University
It’s a universal question: how do we teach a child to behave? Well-known and widely used strategies include the use of positive reward stickers or gold stars, or negative time-outs or detentions.
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- Written by: Hannah Brown, University of Adelaide
This year (2016), an Australian woman delivered a baby at the age of 62 after having in vitro fertilisation (IVF) abroad.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
Difference exist only on the surface. People sometimes use their differences as an excuse for their lack of closeness. And yet these differences can be a great blessing, and almost force a couple to go to a deeper place where the differences do not exist.
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- Written by: Christopher James, New York University
For a new study, researchers asked people about their experiences before, during, and after sex while under the influence of marijuana and alcohol.
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- Written by: Christopher Ferguson, Stetson University
Few people would doubt that sex is ubiquitous in media – whether movies, television, music or books – and that teens today have unprecedented access to all of it. It’s often taken for granted that this easy access to “sexy media” has an influence on teenage sexuality.
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- Written by: Heather Hensman Kettrey, Vanderbilt University
Over the past few years, there has been a steady flow of articles in magazines, newspapers and online news outlets examining what hookup culture on college campuses means for sexual norms and behaviors among young adults, particularly young women.
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- Written by: Cylie Williams, Monash University
When toddlers are learning to walk, many spend some time walking up on their tip toes, which is known as toe walking.
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- Written by: Nia Heard-Garris, University of Michigan
I find myself in this place again. I am numb. I feel empty. I almost have no words. In 2012, around the time of the birth of my son, I had a similar feeling. Trayvon Martin was killed. I was pregnant with a black male in a world that was not ready for him.
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- Written by: Naomi Baron, American University
Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print? For both parents and teachers, knowing whether computer-based media are improving or compromising education is a question of concern.
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- Written by: Sam Carr, University of Bath
We live in a competitive world, where worth and value are increasingly based on league tables and performance indicators – and parenting hasn’t escaped this sort of scrutiny.
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- Written by: Monique Patenaude, University of Rochester
New research suggests that there are ways for couples to sustain—or rekindle—their passion, despite the tendency of sexual desire to dwindle over time.
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- Written by: Jonathan Wai, Duke University; Brad Bushman, The Ohio State University, and Yakup Cetin, Fatih University
The past few weeks have been full of several unfortunate violent events: the massacre in Orlando, the killing of black men by police officers, the sniper attack in Dallas, the Bastille Day attack in France, the violent coup attempt in Turkey and the shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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- Written by: Harriet Hiscock, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Two of the most common causes of night waking in children are night terrors and nightmares. Parents often get them confused but they are different, as is how they should be managed.
