Posted by: zeebees on: April 21, 2010
Summary: People who are married on average are healthier and live longer than people who are not. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36550380/ns/today-the_new_york_times/?Gt1=43001 A little detail: This is based on a study dated back to 1858, but stood the test of time. It is intuitive that a happy marriage brings better health. Hmm…., thinking of the previous post about “broken [...]
Posted by: zeebees on: April 14, 2010
Definition of a genuine smile: A smile that a) the corners of your mouth turn up b) the skin around the corners of your eyes crinkles Study shows that people who have a genuine smile in their high school yearbook have a much lower divorce rate. This seems like stating the obvious — happy people [...]
Posted by: zeebees on: April 9, 2010
Robert Wright in The Moral Animal illustrates that, in a patriarchal society, monogamy is really there to warrant the equality for men, not women. Excerpts: “Consider a crude and offensive but analytically useful model…. One thousand men and one thousand women are ranked in terms of their desirability as mates … in a monogamous society [...]
Posted by: zeebees on: March 8, 2010
Can you predict the success of a relationship by watching a couple talking with each other? From Blink, the Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell John Gottman is the lead of the “love lab” of University of Washington. On predicting whether a couple will stay married 15 years later, he has 95% accuracy [...]
Posted by: zeebees on: March 5, 2010
One explanation is that they are so smart that they know they need someone smarter to be happy ever after. Research results published in the European Journal of Operational Research gave a mathematical formula for successful marriages. She is 5 years younger than him. She is more than 27% more intelligent than him. She holds [...]
