News tagged with personal intimacy
Study challenges stereotypes about LGB relationships, reveals barriers
Many individuals set personal goals for their love lives: going on more dates, planning to get married or simply saying "I love you" more often. In a new study, Assistant Professor of Sexuality Studies David Frost compared ...
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Jun 28, 2011 |
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R u learning? Health educator experiments with using text messaging to teach
Most parents hate text messaging. Adults find it annoying because teenagers text constantly - during dinner, in class, while they are doing homework, while the parent is trying to talk to them. Judith Cornelius, assistant ...
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Roboticist creates Hugvie - Huggable vibrating pillow smartphone accessory
(Phys.org) -- Japanese robot designer Hiroshi Ishiguro is fast becoming a sort of roboticist for the people, in Japan anyway. Instead of terminator style robots meant to do a lot of serious work or to serve on the battlefield, ...
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May 01, 2012 |
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Google+ 'Hangouts' grow in popularity
David Resnick used it to break through the anxiety and isolation of people who stutter. Joe Saad launched a business. M. Monica Malone, an extrovert whose damaged immune system left her a shut-in, found a ...
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Can U.S. law handle polygamy?
HBO's Big Love and TLC's reality-TV offering Sister Wives have thrust polygamy into popular culture in the United States. Estimates are that somewhere between 50,000-100,000 families in this country are currently risking crimin ...
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Jun 21, 2011 |
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Probing Question: Do we misunderstand French culture?
Reflecting on his 1879 sojourn in France, Mark Twain -- our most quintessentially American writer -- quipped, “In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand ...
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Jun 17, 2011 |
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Crime Victims' Institute studies adolescent sex and laws
While statutory rape laws have been enacted to protect minors from sexual abuse by adults or peers, more teenagers are engaging in sexual activity before the legal age of consent and are facing sexual assault charges.
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May 24, 2011 |
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A woman's blues bring a relationship down
Depression erodes intimate relationships. A depressed person can be withdrawn, needy, or hostile—and give little back.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Judging couples' chemistry influenced by serotonin
(PhysOrg.com) -- The judgements we make about the intimacy of other couples’ relationships are influenced by the brain chemical serotonin, an Oxford University study has found.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 14, 2011 |
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How do people respond to being touched by a robot? (w/ Video)
For people, being touched can initiate many different reactions from comfort to discomfort, from intimacy to aggression. But how might people react if they were touched by a robot? Would they recoil, or would ...
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Does 'women's work' still wash?
Determining who cooks and who cleans in a household may feel like a personal decision couples make, but UC Irvine sociologist Judith Treas says culture and societal characteristics have a major influence on ...
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Mar 08, 2011 |
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Preventing online relationships from blossoming into affairs
If you're single, Facebook and other social networking sites can help you meet that special someone. However, for those in even the healthiest of marriages, improper use can quickly devolve into a marital disaster.
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Mar 01, 2011 |
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