If we encourage narcissists to consider the situation from their life-partner’s point of view, are they are likely to respond in a much more considerate or sympathetic way?

Yup… Research suggests that narcissists just need a nudge…

Gimme a break…

Humans who cave, capitulate, and only make a sacrifice because they feel pressured into it, will not only be potentially resentful, but, according to this study, they will also enjoy far less relational satisfaction.

However…humans who make sacrifices in their relationship because they want to… are the partners with the most enduring relationship satisfaction, period.

The ultra-brief hack can help identify an anxiety problem quickly.

Almost 20%. of humans who visit their doctor have an anxiety disorder, research finds.

And just 2 questions are often enough to suggest there is a problem that needs to be addressed…

The relationship between being alone and feeling lonely is quite complicated.

This study emphasizes that your mileage may definitely vary. Solitude does not reliably provoke loneliness.

Adults with an Avoidant Attachment Style fear rejection… and attempt to deactivate the attachment system by limiting closeness.

Avoidant humans experience an ongoing struggle between deep attachment needs… and deep attachment defenses…

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. —Ayn Rand

Research suggest that fish oil supplements are at least as effective for attention as conventional pharmacological treatments among those children with ADHD who have omega-3 deficiency….

Wow…

Caffeine improves executive functioning cognitive procedures.

It can also increase capacity, and flexibility, in both human spatial attention and selective attention, as well as in the working memory, and short-term memory.

Is coffee is a think drink?

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, also known as ADHD or ADD, can interfere with humans successfully completing the most mundane of daily routines, like charging their cell phone, or paying bills.

It may even cause some humans to rack up a piss-poor resume, as persistent lateness, inattention to vital deadlines, or failing to perform ordinary tasks, result in enthusiastic terminations.

The likely reason why this fairly simple trick works is that it tends to automatically activate more successful learning strategies, the kind routinely used by… teachers.

People might naturally presume that people who are nice, conscientious and generous are automatically more cooperative.

But, through recent research, we find overwhelming support for the idea that intelligence is the primary condition for a socially cohesive, cooperative society…

The personality trait of neuroticism – perhaps better understood as “negative emotionality” is a major risk factor of major depression.

This study explains that this occurs because levels of neuroticism are, for the most part, an index of their genetic susceptibility of a client to to clinical depression.