All animals, including humans, use emotional displays to interact with one another. Aggression is the most dramatic example. Dogs growl, cats arch their backs, snakes hiss, horses stand up and wave their front legs menacingly, bulls kick sand, apes beat their chests, and humans puff up their muscles

New research has emerged that shows differences in men’s vs. women’s memories.

One of the most important aspects of successful relationship is to be present. Plainly put, that means "showing up", in the sense of being both physically and emotionally available. It also means being aware of both our partner and ourselves, as well as how we complement, and contend with, one another.

Due to their immediate survival significance, negative emotions enjoy priority processing in the brain. This is one of nature’s peculiar ironies, because positive emotions are actually more important to long-term survival. You have a better chance of living a longer, higher quality life if you experience more positive emotions than negative ones.

I’d rather have a Paper Doll to call my own than have a fickle-minded real live girl. (The Mills Brothers) I may not be a great actress but I’ve become the greatest at screen orgasms.

I heard a joke the other day that goes something like this. A couple seeks marital therapy. The wife complains that her husband isn’t interested in having sex

A while back we promised to respond to the sexperts featured in a story on Slate.com on things about sex that confuse even bona-fide sex experts. We hope you (and they) will find our take on these issues provocative and possibly even illuminating

When little boys and girls reach a certain age, they start accusing each other of having “cooties.” They regard each other as yucky and dirty because they have cooties, and avoid any contact with them for fear of contracting cooties themselves. That is, until they suddenly “discover” each other when they hit puberty, then they become crazy about each other and no longer fear cooties

The popular psychology movement in the United States consists of hundreds of self-help books, magazines, Internet blogs, TV talk shows, and radio advice/call-in programs. The movement derives from an outdated form of psychotherapy based on the superficial doctrine that how you feel is who you are

Why is it that you can feel compassion for a homeless person you see in the morning, yet when you spot him again at the end of the day, you’re nagged by the thought that he won’t even try to get his act together and look for a job? What makes a disappointed child feel like giving up on everything when alone, but inspired to find something of interest as soon as she’s with her friends?

"Pretty women ought to be left to men without imagination ". (Marcel Proust) "Take my hand, I’m a stranger in paradise, all lost in a wonderland "

Carlin Flora has in her earlier post written about the puzzle of domestic violence.

Carlin Flora has in her earlier post written about the puzzle of domestic violence. Given the enormous health and somatic costs of spousal abuse, the question of why many battered women stay with their abusive husbands or boyfriends is a puzzling one.

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’m a slightly obsessive-compulsive person. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, particularly in my line of work (academia) where it’s good to really clamp down onto a complicated research problem. But occasionally, I stumble onto something rather tangential that just sucks my attention in, such as the The Doe Network , and before you know it I’ve spent the last three hours reading about some dead guy sitting on a row of bleachers in Sacramento, or a woman discovered floating in a Texas lake wearing a black teddy and blue jogging pants with white stripes (what was she thinking?), or a skeleton in overalls still leaning against a tree, the same spot where he’d been bitten by a poisonous snake at least a year before

"Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hate wherewith he hated her [was] greater than the love wherewith he had loved her" ( Bible , 2 Samuel, 13:15). "Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds ." (Antoine Rivarol) Many testimonies, as well as fictional works, describe situations in which people find themselves hating the person they love. This might initially appear to be contradiction, for how can one love and hate the same person at the same time?