Day: March 11, 2018

    Infidelity is murky territory. Does a one-night stand at a bachelor party count? How about an emotional entanglement with a close friend that doesn't involve anything physical? Psychologists and relationship experts have spent years studying the science of infidelity, turning up surprising insights into what different couples consider cheating, how they react to cheating, and how they bounce back after someone strays. We looked into some of that research and pulled out the most compelling results. Read on to see what we found and how you can apply these findings to your own relationship. If you're economically dependent on your spouse, you're more likely to cheat on them A 2015 study of about 2,800 people between ages 18 and 32, published in the American Sociol...

     A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology posits there's a good chance you can tell if someone is rich or poor just by looking at them. The relationship between well-being and social class has been demonstrated by previous research, R. Thora Bjornsdottir, a graduate student at the University of Toronto and co-author of the study, tells CNBC Make It. In general, people with money tend to live happier, less anxious lives compared to those struggling to make ends meet. She and her team demonstrated that these well-being differences are actually reflected in people's faces. Bjornsdottir and her co-author, psychology professor Nicholas O. Rule, had undergraduate subjects of various ethnicities look at gray-scale photographs of 80 white ma...