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What to wear, what to wear… it’s date night and you’re standing in front of your closet trying to make a decision. The clock is ticking and your mind is engaged in rapid-fire hypotheticals: “What if I wear my dark dressy jeans and that cream colored sweater?” “What about that shirt with the cute ruffles?”  “Is a button-down really not a dress shirt?” Caught in the fashion dilemma, we can turn to psychological research and gain insight into the choices we make, the process of deciding, and the impressions we create when we wear what we wear on date night. 1. Looking for love? Try red You know that song “Lady in Red”? Recent evidence suggests men have a powerful response to women wearing red, seeing them as more attractive and sexually desirable than if they wear other colors. The seductive effect of red has been documented for not only American men, but men from around the world suggesting it may be a global, culturally-universal phenomenon. Because red works its enchanting effects ...

Introduction Explore your personality with the highly respected Five Factor model (AKA the Big Five). You'll see how you stack up on 5 major dimensions of personality: Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism. The Big Five model of personality is widely considered to be the most robust way to describe personality differences. It is the basis of most modern personality research. This 50-question inventory is based on questionnaires used in professional research settings and will evaluate your personality on each of the Five Factors. History The Big Five was originally derived in the 1970's by two independent research teams -- Paul Costa and Robert McCrae (at the National Institutes of Health), and Warren Norman (at the University of Michigan)/Lewis Goldberg (at the University of Oregon) -- who took slightly different routes at arriving at the same results: most human personality traits can be boiled down to five broad dimensions of personality, r...

What did you do for your sweetheart on Valentine ’s Day? How do you know if he or she truly loves your idea? Or did he or she just not want to hurt your feelings? Can you do better next year? How to speak with your partner in a language he or she understands the best? How to make your partner and yourself the happy as you can be? Get your answers by inviting your partner to take the Love Language Quiz! The 60-second Quiz Questions For each pair of following statements, circle the one that fits you best your personal preferences within your current relationship. If you are not currently in a relationship, try to imagine how you would like to be treated, if you were in relationship of your dream. Or, think about how you like to be treated by a family members and a close friend you value most. Do not spend much time on thinking over and over the same questions, if you cannot decide on spot which statement fits you better, try to use spontaneous and intuitive approach, choosing the respons...

Foreplay, mixing it up, and expressing your feelings are behaviors that satisfied couples do regularly, according to new study. You may agree or not, but scientific data supports the point of view that talking about love, whilst in bed, is even more important than foreplay and wearing sexy lingerie, to ensure you are sexually satisfied. The study, one of the largest of its kind to date, examined what contributes to a satisfying long-term sex life. The findings indicate that foreplay, setting the mood, mixing it up, and expressing love are all behaviors that satisfied couples said they do regularly. Researchers from Chapman University in the US analyzed the answers of 39,000 married or living together heterosexual men and women who have been with their partner for at least three years. They found that sexually satisfied men and women engage in more intimate behavior, with 75 percent of satisfied men declaring that they say "I love you" whilst they have sex and 74 percent of sa...

Recent Study We all know the saying 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', and the fact that there are a whole lot of strange-looking people out there happily loved up would suggest that it is true. But scientists have now performed the biggest test so far, analyzing the preferences of more than 35,000 people, and have shown that we really do all have a unique 'type'. In fact, the study showed that even identical twins - who share nearly 100 percent of their DNA - are not attracted to the same people, suggesting that it is our experiences, rather than our genes, determine whether we find someone hot or not. "We estimate that an individual's aesthetic preferences for faces agree about 50 percent, and disagree about 50 percent, with others," lead researchers of the project, Laura Germine from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, and Jeremy Wilmer of Wellesley College, explain in a press release. "This fits with the common intuition th...

Q: Do you worry about the potential genetic problems associated with having kids with your biological father? A: Nope. I wouldn’t risk having a kid if I thought it would be harmful. I’ve done my research. Everybody thinks that kids born in incestuous relationships will definitely have genetic problems, but that’s not true. That happens when there’s years of inbreeding, like with the royal family. Incest has been around as long as humans have. Everybody just needs to deal with it as long as nobody is getting hurt or getting pressured or forced. There are so many people having kids who will be passing on health problems, people with diabetes or mental health issues, or AIDS. My mom was allowed to have kids and both her and her mom were bipolar. My research tells me that the only real genetic risk is high blood pressure, which is controllable. I think people only worry about it because they look to the genetic problems that occurred when incest was happening generation upon generation. Th...

Answer each question or statement by choosing which one of the three alternative responses given is most applicable to you. Questions 1. How much do you depend on the approval of others in order to feel good about yourself? a. Very much, as it makes me feel I am doing right not just by myself but also by others. b. Not very much, as generally I trust my own abilities. c. Generally, it does make me feel better when I have the approval of others. 2. How comfortable would you feel if invited to attend a social gathering such as a Buckingham Palace Garden Party? a. Not very comfortable, in fact extremely nervous. b. Very comfortable, and welcoming of the opportunity to meet many interesting and possibly famous people. c. Fairly pleased about the prospect of attending, but also a little nervous. 3. How often do you worry about your appearance? a. Frequently. b. Rarely or never. c. Occasionally. 4. In general, do you feel good about yourself? a. I often feel frustrated and that I could do be...