We spend a lot of time on this blog talking about how people judge the personal qualities of others. Nicholas Rule and colleagues have an intriguing new finding out today that examines a somewhat related question: What determines how accurate people are in assessing the sexual orientation of others? Turns out, for women at least, the timing of the judgment plays a big factor. Read More...

It’s no surprise that partners who are less interested in alternatives to their current relationship partners turn out to be more satisfied with those relationships. If you don’t think the grass is greener, then you won’t be as interested in hopping the fence. What should come as a bigger surprise are the findings of a group of psychologists at the University of Kentucky and Florida State suggesting how one might react to a partner whose eyes are wandering: let them ogle.
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“I love you.” That one little statement can mean so much. If you ask most people, they’ll likely tell you that it stands as a sign of true long-term devotion and that men are much more hesitant to say it. But, as new research by Joshua Ackerman, Vladis Griskevicius, and Norman Li shows, they’d be wrong.

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Tags: relationships, love, sex-differences