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Breaking Bad (Habits): The Path from Thoughts to Actions
Read more: Breaking Bad (Habits): The Path from Thoughts to ActionsHealth promotion is a burgeoning industry backed by governments, the World Health Organization, researchers, even entrepreneurs looking to make a buck. According to the World Health Organization’s website, “health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health.” Governmental health promotion efforts extend to people of all ages…
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Parents, Schools, and Achievement: The Role of Socioeconomic Strata
Read more: Parents, Schools, and Achievement: The Role of Socioeconomic StrataThere exists a growing body of research highlighting the important role that parents play in helping their children succeed in school. School involvement can take many forms and can provide long-term benefits of improved academic achievement and even better socioemotional development of children. Prior research has noted the different levels of parental involvement based on…
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Does Selfishness Pay? Income, Fertility, and Prosociality
Read more: Does Selfishness Pay? Income, Fertility, and ProsocialityProsocial attitudes may lead to prosocial behavior, including altruism, forging positive relationships with others, even preserving the environment for future generations. Are prosocial people more likely to have business success and higher incomes? One could propose that “by maximizing their own outcomes, selfish individuals should be better off in the long run than prosocials who…
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“His and Hers” Marriage and Couple Satisfaction
Read more: “His and Hers” Marriage and Couple SatisfactionThe quip that “there are two marriages in every marital union, his and hers” is attributed to Jesse Bernard in her 1972 book, The Future of Marriage[i]. To this quip, she added that marriage is better for men than for women. Over the ensuing decades since the book’s publication, researchers have added to a growing…
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Is Your Smartphone Making You Sick?
Read more: Is Your Smartphone Making You Sick?Stress, Anxiety and Smartphone Use In previous posts, I reviewed research on the use of devices and apps developed for smartphones that can enhance and improve mental health. We tend to see smartphones as a positive technological advancement, and many users cannot imagine life without one. But, is it possible for a device to have…
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Exploring the Interplay of Religion, Marital Satisfaction, and Divorce
Read more: Exploring the Interplay of Religion, Marital Satisfaction, and DivorceAt present, we have more than half-a-century of research on marriage, and many studies focus on solving the divorce problem. With the costliness of divorce to the couple and their children, including financial, physical, and socio-emotional costs, why would anyone undertake the endeavor without real commitment to making it work? Even with commitment to success,…
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