Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch are complementary energy based treatments. They are based on the premise that (1) illness is a result of “a disruption of the flow of energy surrounding a person’s being” and (2) ...

To investigate gender differences in activity preferences in a sample without lifetime constraints, we asked young men and women to report their foreseen enjoyment of various household and childcare tasks. We predict that ...

A unique challenge for opposite-sex friends is convincing others of the platonic nature of their relationship. One reason for this challenge may be that opposite-sex friendships are often not clearly platonic. Male-female ...

People are biased toward seeing associations between independent events and assuming causal explanations for those associations. Indeed, the lay public incorrectly infers cause-and-effect from descriptions of non-experimental ...

Because conception occurs internally to the human female, ancestral males did not have 100% certainty of their paternity. Evolutionary theorists have proposed that males are sensitive to an offspring’s resemblance to them ...

In this study we utilized natural sampling to acquire a set of male-female dyads, and asked male and female partners about their level of romantic attraction to one another. We predicted that (1) young men would report ...

Research on Hindsight bias began in 1975, when Fischhoff published his seminal article describing the effects of hindsight bias on judgments of important evidence and perceived likelihood of possible outcomes. In this ...

Scientific literacy is considered essential in modern society (Anelli, 2011), where reasoning skills and knowledge of the scientific process can help citizens evaluate claims about food, relationships, health, climate ...

Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch are complementary, energy-based treatments. They are based on the premises that (1) illness is a result of “a disruption of the flow of energy surrounding a person’s being” and (2) ...

Although opposite-sex friendships are often defined as platonic, heterosexual men and women frequently report sexual or romantic undertones in their friendships with the opposite sex. In several studies in which young ...