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You Can Help People Feel Appreciated
Truthful, kind feedback helps create a civilized world. read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Temma Ehrenfeld Tags: Ethics and Morality Relationships Social Life appreciation compliments feedback gratitude Source Type: news

Too Picky?
What are the two traits you should insist on finding in a partner?read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Duana C. Welch, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Relationships Social Life choosing a partner dating marriage standards for a mate traits for a mate Source Type: news

Can We Stop Comparing Ourselves to Others?
When you feel like the world is judging you, it helps to know how your brain creates that feeling. Animals compare themselves to others, and we have inherited a brain that compares and reacts. You can free your inner mammal from this cage when you know how it works.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Source Type: news

A World Without Social Comparison
When you feel like the world is judging you, it helps to know how your brain creates that feeling. Animals compare themselves to others, and we have inherited a brain that compares and reacts. You can free your inner mammal from this cage when you know how it works.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Source Type: news

Wooping It Up for the Holidays
This simple four-step process can make your holiday travel less stressful and more successful. read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jaime Kurtz, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Relationships Stress holidays travel winter holidays Source Type: news

The Art of Triangulation
Couples who cannot talk to one another need third part intervention: triangulation. Here, they can talk through their therapist and get the help they need in making a statement, a plea, noting a disagreement, exposing a private thought. Triangulation is often the magic pill that makes it OK to say what you feel and have it heard by another for interpretation.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan B. Winston, LMFT Tags: Relationships Source Type: news

What Makes Some of Us Own Our Mistakes, But Not Others
In any relationship, there are times that you don’t do the right thing. You brush off a colleague. You snap at a romantic partner. You do things that are selfish. In order to repair the relationship, though, you need to take some responsibility. By taking responsibility, you can work to change yourself to improve the relationship in the future.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Art Markman, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships apologizing apology belief Carol Dweck change entity theory guilt incremental theory learning mistakes responsibility stress threat Source Type: news

Your Beliefs About Change Affect Admitting Responsibility
In any relationship, there are times that you don’t do the right thing. You brush off a colleague. You snap at a romantic partner. You do things that are selfish. In order to repair the relationship, though, you need to take some responsibility. By taking responsibility, you can work to change yourself to improve the relationship in the future.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Art Markman, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships apologizing apology belief Carol Dweck change entity theory guilt incremental theory learning mistakes responsibility stress threat Source Type: news

Keep It Frontal: Don't Go Limbic
When is the last time you got angry at someone treating you with respect?read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joseph A. Shrand, M.D. Tags: Evolutionary Psychology Neuroscience Relationships Self-Help Source Type: news

Has Your Relationship Stalled?
Why do couples stay in doomed relationships when everyone around them can tell things are going poorly? Read on to find out.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Guy Winch, Ph.D. Tags: Cognition Happiness Memory Relationships breakups cognitice distortions couple satisfaction divorce Emotional First Aid failure family planning heartache loneliness marital longevity marriage recollections rejection weddi Source Type: news

What is Online Infidelity?
What are the salient features of online infidelity? One component which may characterize unfaithful online liaisons is the time of day at which such liaisons take place. read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Martin Graff, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Sex hyperpersonal communication Online Infidelity self-disclosure Source Type: news

Leadership (and Life) Lessons From a Hamburger Stand
While other fast-food restaurants exploit workers and cut corners, In-N-Out pays high wages, offers benefits, and focuses on quality. What is their recipe for success, and what can we learn from them about treating others with respect and regard?read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Social Life Work benefits compensation employee wellbeing fair treatment incentives job satisfaction motivation quality turnover wages Source Type: news

The Six Most Common Enemies of Intimacy
There are six common behaviors that can damage any loving relationship if they are allowed to continue. The struggling partners I work with have often slipped into these destructive patterns without even realizing it. Had they been able to see them earlier, they could have stopped the damage they had wreaked.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Randi Gunther, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Self-Help advice intimacy love Source Type: news

Why Happiness is the Wrong Pursuit
On some abstract level, we know that money and other outward signs of success won’t ultimately make us happy—perhaps because we know wealthy or famous or powerful people who are deeply unhappy—but on another level, we don’t really believe it... or at least we don’t believe it applies to us.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christine L. Carter, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Relationships Stress Work materialism meaning meaningful relationships purpose self-gratification success Source Type: news

This Holiday Season, Get Your Partner Exactly What They Want
Get your partner what they want. Literally.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - December 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Samantha Joel, M.A. Tags: Behavioral Economics Happiness Relationships Christmas gift for boyfriend gift for girlfriend gift for spouse gift giving gifts for men perfect gift thoughtful gift what to buy Source Type: news