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- Gina Stepp: Wired To Connect - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2008 from Gina SteppPeople who are good at maintaining important relationships in their lives have always instinctively known what researchers are now discovering: good relationships are crucial to our health and well-being. In Social Intelligence: The Revolutionary New Science of Human Relationships, Daniel ...
Views: 865 - Gina Stepp: Are Babies Born With Morals? - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2008 from Gina SteppThe UK's online Telegraph cited a new Yale study suggesting that babies as young as six months old can tell the difference between people who are likely to help them and people who are not. This prompted the author to ask, "Are babies born with morals?" If it seems a huge leap from "babies can ...
Views: 1115 - Who Am I? The Question Of Violence - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2008 from Gina Stepp“In violence, we forget who we are,” said American novelist Mary McCarthy. If these words are true, we may be facing a generation of children who, despite the number of profile pages they may have on MySpace or Bebo, are increasingly missing a sense of identity. “Violent ...
Views: 1456 - Grand Cultures: Strengthening Grandparent and Grandchild Ties - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2008 from Gina SteppA soft, comfortably-sized woman in a bib apron and oven mitts sets a batch of steaming cookies on a cooling rack: her grey hair is caught neatly in a generous bun, and she wears a pair of round, wire-rimmed glasses and a warm smile. It’s a scene that appears in countless children’s ...
Views: 1015 - Give Sorrow More Than Words - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2008 from Gina SteppThe last decade has seen great strides in understanding some of the brain science behind emotions like sorrow and joy—at least of the mechanics. Using the latest technology, scientists can see what goes on materially in the brain when we have certain feelings, but there is still much more ...
Views: 1028 - Smart Men Make Passes At Women With Glasses - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2008 from Gina SteppMeet Christine Whelan—an attractive, 29-year-old woman with a PhD from Oxford University. When I spoke with her she happened to be single, having been dumped two years earlier by a man who told her she was intellectually intimidating. For a break-up line it seems fairly believable. After ...
Views: 1365 - Single But Not Solitary: Shattering The Myths Of Singlehood - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2008 from Gina Stepp“Tell new acquaintances that you are single and often they think they already know quite a lot about you,” says social psychologist Bella DePaulo. “They understand your emotions: You are miserable and lonely and envious of couples. They know what motivates you: More than ...
Views: 1345 - Child-Development Illiteracy: A Growing Problem? - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2008 from Gina SteppThe structure of the modern nuclear family is a relatively new invention when considered along the timeline of human history. Long before “Leave It to Beaver” ideals became the norm, families didn’t isolate themselves from their relatives, and parents didn’t leave home to ...
Views: 1103 - The Neuroscience Of Motherhood - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2008 from Gina SteppForget the “decade of the brain”: it’s becoming evident that the modern fascination with neuroscience is not going away anytime this century. The fact is, thanks to the neurobiological revolution, nothing is what it used to be. Including motherhood. In this vein Katherine ...
Views: 909 - Like Father, Like . . . Daughter? - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2008 from Gina SteppBaseball hard-hitter Harmon Killebrew tells a story that hints at the importance of fathers to boys: “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard,” he says on his Web site. “Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ...
Views: 1483 - Through The Looking Glass: Mirror Neurons And Moral Nonsense - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2008 from Gina SteppScanning the past week's news, one gets the distinct impression there has been an unusually high number of "man's inhumanity to man" stories. Darfur, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel. Kidnapped children, boys arrested for planning an attack on their school, and a murdered family in a Dallas suburb. A ...
Views: 2341 - Feminism: The Complementary Angle - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2007 from Gina SteppWhen it first dawned on Betty Friedan that something was wrong with the role of women in society, she was quite correct. Of course, she was not the first in history to notice, or the first to hit on an inadequate definition of or solution to the problem. The issue was the discontent of the ...
Views: 1418 - Family Relationships: U.S. Study Finds Links Between Religious Participation And Involved Fathers - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2007 from Gina SteppIn recent years, researchers into families and relationships have frequently turned their attention to investigating the importance of fathers to the well-being of their children. Findings suggest that the more engaged and involved a father is in his children's lives, the greater the physical, ...
Views: 2284 - Society And Culture: Mind The Gap - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2007 from Gina SteppThe train slows, a recording voices the familiar “mind the gap” warning, and the doors open. A horde steps mindlessly over the threshold and continues on its way without missing a beat. If only the generation gap were so easy to cross. Is it really inevitable that there should be ...
Views: 842 - Family and Relationships: The Mother Load - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2007 from Gina SteppWhen discussing the importance of family and relationships, motherhood entails countless personal sacrifices. Theodore Roosevelt acknowledged as much in 1905, when he told the National Congress of Mothers, "Your duty is hard, your responsibility great; but greatest of all is your reward." While ...
Views: 823 - Family and Relationships: New Study Explores Adolescent Expectations About Marriage - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2007 from Gina SteppAs divorce rates among their parents' generation continue to soar, today's teens increasingly see cohabitation as an option when they envision family and relationships. But how deep-seated is this trend, and what does it mean for the institution of marriage? Researchers at Bowling Green State ...
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