(Science Daily) How did the almost 6000 languages of the world come into being?
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Cooperation and Competition: The Deutsch and Krauss Experiment
(Exploring Your Mind) Negotiating is often a very difficult art. In this article, we’ll look at the Deutsch and Krauss experiment.
How to Argue Happily: Bank Easy Successes First
(Nikki Harper) Relationships are not easy. All couples argue, whether they’ve only just met or have been together for decades. Even the most stable couples are still two individual people, who will have different views, wishes and ideas at least some of the time during their relationship. However, new research suggests that the happiest couples tend to argue in a distinct way, which could account for their ongoing happiness.
How to Have a Loving Relationship When You Don’t Know How
(Ronald Frederick, Ph.D) By the time I was 20, I already understood that there was more to this thing called love than meets the eye. While falling in love was easy, the staying there and making it work proved elusive.
The Ten Commandments for Dealing with Conflict in Your Relationship
(Exploring Your Mind) These guidelines for dealing with conflict in your relationship focus on simple attitudes and behaviors. Although we often forget to consider these things, they can really make the difference between resolving the conflict and making it worse.
Get to Know the Psychology of Persuasion
(Justin Deschamps) Persuasion often gets a bad wrap. We’re exposed to a constant onslaught of media attempting influence our buying choices, political views, and relationship values. Understanding these things helps us guard against coercive influences. What’s more, we can also learn how to interact with others, using persuasion techniques that are respectful.
Text Relationship Mistakes: 8 Things to Reconsider Sending in a Text to Avoid Miscommunication
(Tina Gilbertson) Avoid these common texting mistakes that hurt relationships.
Why Texting Builds a False Sense of Security in Relationships
(Amy Debrucque) This type of communication builds a false sense of security.
Assertive Communication with Your Family
(Exploring Your Mind) Communication is the foundation for a good relationship with your family. But, how can you get your family to listen to you? It’s easier than you may think! Establishing assertive communication with your family is more than possible.
Cell Phones Can Damage Relationships and Cause Lack of Empathy
(Exploring your Mind) During a conversation with someone, you’ve probably had to compete for their attention with a technological device and lost. Maybe the person in front of you diverted their attention to their latest “urgent” notifications. They’ve probably even interrupted your conversation to answer a call, answer a text message, or check their social media.
Truth Sharing Techniques: How to Succeed at Sharing Ideas with People in Difficult Conversations
(Lynn Margolies, Ph.D.) The current political climate has made talking to one another easily polarizing and adversarial. Common approaches to emotionally charged conversations often unwittingly invite reactive rigid responses, control struggles, and resistance to new information — reinforcing the beliefs we hoped to challenge.
Research Reveals Plants Can Think, Choose & Remember
(Collective Evolution) Plants are far more intelligent and capable than we given them credit. In fact, provocative research from 2010 published in Plant Signaling & Behavior proposes that since they cannot escape environmental stresses in the manner of animals, they have developed a “sophisticated, highly responsive and dynamic physiology,” which includes information processes such as “biological quantum computing” and “cellular light memory” which could be described as forms of plant intelligence.
9 Common Communication Errors and How to Fix Them
(Therese J. Borchard) Clear and effective communication is the foundation of any relationships, whether it be a work partnership, a marriage, or the relationship between a parent and child.
The Importance of Conscious Communication
(Justin Deschamps) There are several pillars of living that once embraced make everything else better in our lives. Often these pillars force us to face our fears and grow. Life improves, not because it’s without challenge, but because we face challenges and in doing so grow stronger and wiser. Communication is one of these pillars. Without effective communication, most of the things you enjoy in life fall apart. There is a science to communication, ancient wisdom that we still use in the modern world in certain places. If we took this wisdom and used it everywhere we could, almost every problem you can imagine can be dealt with as a collective effort.
Today’s Use of Technology: How Far Is Too Far?
(Helen Lyle) In today’s society, technology has enhanced our interactions to a more efficient level. But it has created a sense of urgency when things aren’t as quick as we want them to be, and our psyches have become used to that ‘immediate gratification’ mentality.