When you are unhappy in a relationship, why do you stay? The answer may surprise you.

October 22, 2018

Why do people stay in unsatisfying romantic relationships? A new study suggests it may be because they view leaving as bad for their partner. The study, being published in the November 2018 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, explored the possibility that people deciding whether to end a relationship consider not only their […]



Men in a subway train in China, Oct 6 2012. Photo by Flickr user Jun Wei Dai

More than a few good men

August 17, 2016

Contrary to traditional expectations of unbalanced sex ratios, places with more men than women do not typically experience higher rates of family and social instability, according to a University of Utah study. The study by anthropologists Ryan Schacht and Karen Kramer, published August 24 in PLOS ONE, finds instead that surpluses of men are associated […]