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Caught in a COVID Romance: How the Pandemic has Rewritten Relationships
… Psychologists and relationship experts say the pandemic has no doubt made people reconsider their relationships, especially as quarantine began to highlight longstanding issues. Kerry Lusignan, a licensed mental health counselor and founder of Northampton Couples
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on how people think that others are more likely to be “bad” than themselves, intuitive physical reasoning, effects of COVID-19 on relationship satisfaction, recreational fear, alcohol experiences, visuospatial attention, and age advantages in emotional experience during COVID-19.
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‘The WEIRDest People in the World’ Review: Marriage Story
We may think that the culture of a society or civilization grows out of a variety of forces—social, political, historical, even biological. But what if culture is itself a potent force, one that, in part
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What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
… In the past few decades, Americans have broadened their image of what constitutes a legitimate romantic relationship: Courthouses now issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Americans are getting married later in life than ever before, and
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The Strain the Covid Pandemic Is Putting on Marriages
For Kristin and Ilya Shapiro, the Covid pandemic has created new tensions. Lately, the spouses have argued about Mr. Shapiro’s travel schedule: Ms. Shapiro doesn’t like that it creates child-care headaches. But Mr. Shapiro says it’s important
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on close-relationships research, face processing, attentional control, cognitive-load theory, and open-source measures of cognitive ability.
