Do Similar Spouses Yield Happier Marriages?
By Gad Saad, Ph.D. on October 8, 2009 in Homo Consumericus Do most people choose to marry similar or dissimilar others? Does the similarity index depend on a particular attribute (e.g., personality versus physical attractiveness)? Does the similarity between spouses result in happier marital unions or do opposites truly yield spicier and more fulfilling marriages? Read on to find out one of the secrets to a happy marriage. Read More • Travel to Create Your Self By Robert Fuller, Ph.D. on October 8, 2009 in Somebodies and Nobodies We do not travel to get away from it all. Travel fails as escape but it succeeds as confrontation–confrontation with our old selves that, deprived of their usual confirmatory surroundings, may yield to a new one. Read More • Empowering Neighborhoods and Restoring Play: A Modest Proposal By Peter Gray on October 7, 2009 in Freedom to Learn Because neighbors don’t know one another as they once did, parents’ fears of “strangers” in the neighborhood has helped to