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Can Tylenol cure a broken heart?
The Boston Globe: I was intrigued by a new study published this week, which found that getting romantically rejected hurts, like “a jab in the arm with a red-hot poker,” as Melissa Healy writes in
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What’s Your Biggest Regret?
The New York Times: We all have regrets, but new research suggests the most common regret among American adults involves a lost romantic opportunity. Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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To the brain, getting burned, getting dumped feel the same
CNN: Science has finally confirmed what anyone who’s ever been in love already knows: Heartbreak really does hurt. In a new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have found that the same brain
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Broken Heart Burns Like Hot Coffee, Brain Study of Former Lovers Shows
Bloomberg: Heartache over lost love is similar to the physical pain of spilling hot coffee on your lap, scientists studying brain scans say. The sting of seeing photos of an ex-lover stimulated the same parts
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Something for the weekend
FINANCIAL TIMES: Affairs of the heart is the number one cause for regret among US citizens according to research by a marketing professor and a professor of psychology. Either decisions made and acted upon about
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Women more likely than men to have a ‘love’ regret: NU study
Chicago Tribune: If asked to name something we regret in our lives, most of us would mention a “love” regret, especially the women among us, a recent study out of Northwestern University shows. When asked
