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Study: Men prefer women who look like them

(Medical Xpress)—Men find women with whom they share certain facial features more attractive. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by a French team from the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Couples report gender differences in relationship, sexual satisfaction over time

Cuddling and caressing are important ingredients for long-term relationship satisfaction, according to an international study that looks at relationship and sexual satisfaction throughout committed relationships, but contrary ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Does true love wait? Age of first sexual experience predicts romantic outcomes in adulthood

It's a common lament among parents: Kids are growing up too fast these days. Parents worry about their kids getting involved in all kinds of risky behavior, but they worry especially about their kids' forays into sexual relationships. ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 17, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Many researchers taking a different view of pedophilia

As a young boy, Paul Christiano loved the world of girls - the way they danced, how their spindly bodies tumbled in gymnastics. In adolescence, as other boys ogled classmates, he was troubled to find himself fantasizing about ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 21, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

HIV 'superinfection' boosts immune response

Women who have been infected by two different strains of HIV from two different sexual partners – a condition known as HIV superinfection – have more potent antibody responses that block the replication of the virus ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Economic abuse affects maternal mental health and parenting, study finds

(Medical Xpress)— Mothers who experience economic and psychological abuse during the first year of a relationship with their child's father are more likely to become depressed and spank the child in year ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Men with disabilities 4 times more likely to be sexually abused than men without disabilities

Previous studies have documented that women with disabilities are more likely to be sexually assaulted than women without disabilities. A new study published online today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine is the ...

Health created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study shows genital herpes can reactivate even during high dose antiviral therapy

A study combining three trials of antiviral therapy to treat genital herpes (herpes simplex virus type 2/HSV-2) has shown that the virus can reactivate in 'breakthrough episodes' even when doses of antiviral therapy are high. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The many unexpected sides of romantic love

Love can bring out both the best and the worst in people. Which way it turns depends on the best way to protect the relationship, say researchers studying the evolution of romantic love.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Lessons learned from the 'ethical odyssey' of an HIV trial

In the battle against HIV/AIDS conditions on the frontlines are constantly in flux as treatment, research and policy evolve. The landmark HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052 study, which established that antiretroviral ...

HIV & AIDS created Jun 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ways to reduce college drinking and risky sex

In a recent study conducted by scientists at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions involving 154 heavy-drinking college students whose sexual behavior put them at risk for HIV infection and other sexually ...

Addiction created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Women happier in relationships when men feel their pain

Men like to know when their wife or girlfriend is happy while women really want the man in their life to know when they are upset, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bisexual women at especially high risk of sexual violence, CDC says

(HealthDay)—Bisexual women in the United States are more likely to suffer from domestic violence than either lesbian or heterosexual women, a new government report shows.

Health created Jan 25, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Bisexual men on the 'down low' run risk for poor mental health

Bisexual men are less likely to disclose and more likely to conceal their sexual orientation than gay men. In the first study to look at the mental health of this population, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 02, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Men may have natural aversion to adultery with friends' wives

After outgrowing teenage infatuations with the girl next door, adult males seem to be biologically designed to avoid amorous attractions to the wife next door, according to a University of Missouri study that found adult ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast