A disheartening new CDC report states that nearly a quarter of women in the United States have been victims of domestic violence. Furthermore, these women have more health problems than those who haven’t experienced abuse at the hands of their romantic partners—an indication that the chronic stress of living in a threatening environment takes a marked toll on one’s body. Not surprisingly, women who rely on their men for money are at a greater risk of suffering from domestic-partner abuse.

A disheartening new CDC report states that nearly a quarter of women in the United States have been victims of domestic violence. Furthermore, these women have more health problems than those who haven’t experienced abuse at the hands of their romantic partners—an indication that the chronic stress of living in a threatening environment takes a marked toll on one’s body. Not surprisingly, women who rely on their men for money are at a greater risk of suffering from domestic-partner abuse

Contrary to popular belief, most women benefit from polygynous society, and most men benefit from monogamous society. This is because polygynous society allows some women to share a resourceful man of high status

Polygyny has been in the public eye and many Americans’ water-cooler conversations lately, from the success of the HBO series Big Love to the trial of the Mormon sect leader Warren Jeffs.

It’s funny to me that Dan Ariely & co. are using HOTorNOT for research purposes

Leonard Lee, George Loewenstein, James Hong, Jim Young and I recently conducted a study on the ways that one’s own attractiveness influences their perception of, and actions toward, others. The first question we had is whether people who are less attractive themselves view the attractiveness of others differently

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1

Saturday night I saw a hip hop show at Knitting Factory in Tribeca. The headliner was a Boston MC named Edan, but I was no less excited to see one of my favorite producers, Prince Paul , open for him

The young woman wrote seeking advice. She was full of self-loathing, now becoming a problem because it was destroying the effortlessness of her relationship with her fiancé. She surmised, incidentally, that the self-loathing had something to do with her inability to experience physical pleasure

I had dinner last night with a psychological-minded writer who regularly uses her own experience to write utterly delightful books full of good advice-yet was stumbling over a complex relationship problem of her own. Oh, how I related to that!!! So-being an advice columnist -I gave her some advice, but not the kind that you think