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Are sibling influences greater than parental ones?
My son sent me a link to an NPR article on some research indicating that a younger sister is five times more likely to become ...
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How love changes the brain
Every significant relationship alters the brain, which in turn alters future relationships. Some researchers in interpersonal neurobiology, the field that focuses on how the brain continues to ...
Why do we fall in love with the person we do?
I've always assumed that I fell in love with my German boyfriend because he was so unacceptable to my parents, whom I wanted to punish ...
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Is passionate love an emotion or a drive?
Helen Fisher, in her 2004 book, Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, argues that it is the latter. Fisher is an anthropologist who ...
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Why do we feel we know an old lover intimately despite the years, decades of separation?
How is it possible to see an old flame many years later, despite the passage of time—even perhaps of our entire adult lives—and still feel ...
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How can you have intense feelings about someone in the past, while having no feelings about the person in the present?
It feels as though the memories of romantic passion are stored in a separate compartment of the mind, where they retain all their intensity and ...
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First love versus the memory of first love
Why first love is so powerful is not hard to answer: because the first of anything has special resonance. because being in love is an ...
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topics: family
Why are first-love memories so potent?
A few years ago, when in Munich with my husband, I looked up my college boyfriend, who is German. Our three-year relationship had been intense, but we had not been in touch for 45 years. Happily married, I never expected our meeting to be so overwhelming. Have you reconnected with an old love -- or avoided doing so? Will you share your story?
Ways in which the generation gap has never been wider
The 60's divide between the generations had an anti-authoritarian aspect that was very personal. Parents felt under attack and probably were. That aspect of the ...
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topics: family
Are we doomed to be either just like our parents or their opposite?
Psychologists would say that we naturally identify with our parents, either modeling ourselves on them or establishing independent identities by choosing the opposite path. ...
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topics: family, travel
More on travel to Belize and by horse
 Belize, a tiny, democratic, English-speaking country—the former British Honduras—remains an excellent vacation destination. While the interior offers rainforests, Mayan sites, bird-watching, river canoeing, and cave-exploring, ...
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topics: culture, family
Why do children prefer a facsimile to the real thing?
Is it because it offers a sense of control over a frighteningly diverse world? Of course, it isn't only children who can't resist a simulacrum. ...
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topics: family
How can parents thwart sibling rivalry?
Are there any new ideas about what parents can do to thwart sibling rivalry? For common sense thoughts on the subject see this reasoned link. ...