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Wendy L. Patrick

Wendy L. Patrick

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How Others View Your Attempts to Look Younger

Beauty is in the eye and the mindset of the beholder.

13.04.2024 20

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Can You Recognize a Rapist? Stranger Safety Strategies

These are warning signs of dangerous charmers and how to avoid contact.

30.03.2024 20

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How to Break Bad News to Children About a Parent’s Health

Preparing delicate discussions about death or illness with a young family.

25.03.2024 30

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Reproductive Abuse: a Modern Form of Relational Coercion

Insidious indicators of violence, coercion, and control.

23.03.2024 20

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Can You Tell When Your Partner Wants to Break Up?

When partners can accurately predict the end of a relationship.

12.03.2024 20

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Protect Your Community by Boosting Bystander Reporting

03.03.2024 30

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Self, Selflessness, and the Get-Happy-Quick Scheme

The strong link between mindset and mood.

03.03.2024 20

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How to Spot the Link Between Impulsivity and Infidelity

How behavioral traits can predict behavior.

29.02.2024 20

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Do You Really Mean That? Detecting False Affection Online

How to sense when selective attention is a scam.

18.02.2024 20

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The Predictors of Involuntary Singlehood

How to enjoy being single and flying solo.

14.02.2024 20

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Conversation Topics Can Build or Break Attraction

First impressions are based on the physical and the emotional.

13.02.2024 10

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How to Enjoy the Silence: Adjusting to the Empty Nest

When children take flight, parents can enjoy the newfound space.

01.02.2024 10

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Why You Shouldn’t Go to Bed Angry With Your Partner

How to stop a nighttime argument from negatively coloring your mood the next day.

07.01.2024 10

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Sharing the Sunset: Finding Love Later in Life

Older women can benefit from romance.

06.01.2024 20

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Is There an Emotional Price Tag for Loving a Wealthy Partner?

When your suitor's self-worth is defined by financial success.

04.01.2024 20

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Loving a Partner Struggling With Substance Abuse

Research reveals effective strategies of support.

30.12.2023 20

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How to Retain the Romance Long After the Honeymoon

Research reveals how some couples always feel like newlyweds.

29.12.2023 5

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Staying Positive While Loving an Unhappy Partner

How to counteract the emotional contagion of negativity.

25.12.2023 10

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How to Find Hope and Happiness Amidst Uncertainty

Find comfort through a sense of control.

23.12.2023 10

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Boosting Feelings Through Focus: You Are What You See

The discipline of selective attention.

21.12.2023 10

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Holiday Survival Strategies for the Newly Single

Overcoming sadness during a season of cheer.

18.12.2023 30

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Repairing Broken Hearts: How to Bounce Back After a Breakup

Survival strategies for the suddenly single.

17.12.2023 20

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Reviving Quiet Quitters Through Quiet Motivation

Inspire disengaged employees to re-invent themselves.

13.12.2023 20

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Friends First: Falling in Love Without Dating

10.12.2023 10

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When Praise Is Discouraging to Professional Peers

The unintended messages of unrealistic expectations.

05.12.2023 10

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Overcoming Loneliness: Some Social Solutions

Research explores the causes and cures of loneliness and social isolation.

01.12.2023 9

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Prevent Quiet Quitting With Upfront Questions

Personal Perspective: A proactive method to recruit and retain talent.

18.11.2023 9

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Recognizing Workaholism: The Dark Side of Productivity

Acknowledging when your devotion to work has become a problem.

13.11.2023 10

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How to Love a Partner Who Is Hard to Please

20.10.2023 10

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Should You Bring Your Partner to All of Your Social Events?

Public and private protocol for your “plus-one.”

08.10.2023 30

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Can Trauma-Informed Survivor Care Be Provided by Chatbots?

The realities of confiding in artificial assistants

29.09.2023 10

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Relationship Problems That Prompt Infidelity

Some partners are looking for happiness; others are just looking.

28.09.2023 20

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Detecting Infidelity: When the Coverup Reveals the Crime

How counter-strategies reveal underlying behavior.

27.09.2023 20

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Workplace Well-Being: Policies to Keep the Peace

Emotional strategies to create chemistry, not conflict.

14.09.2023 9

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Scent Seduction: How You Smell Matters

The science of olfactory attraction.

10.09.2023 10

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