Getting Married? Trust Your Gut

Wondering how your marriage will turn out? According to scientists, you may already know it in your gut. A study published in Science found that newlywed’s implicit feelings about each other—feelings that they couldn’t or wouldn’t verbalize—were pretty good at predicting how happy they’d be four years later. For the … Read More

Men Have Different Expectations Than Women When They Move In Together

Score one for the stereotypes: men are actually less likely to be committed to their partners when they move in together. In a study published in RAND, sociologists Michael Pollard and Kathleen M. Harris found that couples who cohabit show significantly lower levels of commitment than those who are married, … Read More

Best of DailyXY in 2014

Our Brave New Bitcoin World “Both David and Kemper are confident that as digital currencies become more widely used, innovators will bring more proprietary technologies to the table in order to further enhance Bitcoin’s usability and security. “It’s really the early days,” says Kemper. “As advances come out, there’s a … Read More

How We End Up Marrying the Wrong People, and More

How We End Up Marrying the Wrong People – The Philosopher’s Mail “All of us are crazy in very particular ways. We’re distinctively neurotic, unbalanced and immature, but don’t know quite the details because no one ever encourages us too hard to find them out. An urgent, primary task of … Read More

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