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Psychologists Explain Your Phone Anxiety (and How to Get Over It)If the thought of calling someone makes you feel all squirmy inside, you’re in good company.
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5 Tips for Making a Long-Distance Relationship WorkHow often should you text or talk on the phone? When should you visit each other?
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What It Means to ‘Feel Fat’It’s subtly different, and more fleeting, than having an overarchingly unhealthy body image.
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This Is the Age When Your Self-Esteem PeaksIt stays at its highest point for a full decade.
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What Does It Mean to Quantify Desirability?Unpacking that new study on looking for love with people out of your league.
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The Gloomy Psychology of ‘Relationship Cycling’A new study contains a sad little fact about on-again off-again relationships.
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Gynecologists Are Mad About the Safety Warning on Vaginal LasersSome are arguing that the FDA’s definition of “vaginal rejuvenation,” which includes treatment for pelvic pain, is too broad.
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When Your Sense of Self Includes Your Best FriendA new study on the challenge of knowing where one of you ends and the other begins.
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Natural Cycles Is the First Birth-Control App to Get FDA ApprovalBut it still might not be such a good idea to rely on it for pregnancy prevention.
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What to Do When You Can’t Stand Your Friend’s Significant OtherAdvice for when someone you love now comes as a package deal with someone you really, really don’t.
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8 Women on the Biggest Money Fight in Their RelationshipArguments about how to spend and how to save — but also about power, priorities, and different visions of a shared future.
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When Your Name Doesn’t Feel Like YouBelieving that your name doesn’t fit your personality can cause its own kind of constant impostor syndrome.
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8 Women on Their Earliest (and Possibly Made Up) MemoriesNearly half of people say the first thing they remember happened at an age that’s impossible for adults to recall.
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A Sexuality Researcher Explains a Big Unanswered Question in Sex StudiesAnd why scientists still don’t have a way to measure a key component of our sex lives.
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My Life As a Sex ResearcherPsychologist Justin Lehmiller explains what it’s like to study sex for a living.
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You’ll Love This Study If You Hate ExerciseA technique to make running feel less terrible.
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18 Women on the Very Specific Things That Make Them HornyFor Totally Soaked, a week dedicated to summer horniness, women talk about turn-ons from smells to TV shows to libraries.
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When Does Your Adult Personality Kick In?The science of those “on-brand” childhood stories taking over Twitter.
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What Your Ability to Handle Pimple-Popping Videos Says About YouIt’s fine to get excited about watching someone else squeeze some zits.
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A New Study May Have Found a More Effective Alternative to Pap SmearsHPV testing is better at detecting the abnormal cells that can lead to cervical cancer.
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Living With a Disease That Feels Like a Never-ending UTIInterstitial cystitis, a painful, chronic bladder condition often mistaken for a urinary tract infection, has no known cause or cure.
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5 Books to Read If You’re Getting MarriedWith advice for everything from having more sex to fighting better.
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Even If Families Are Reunited, They Face a New Kind of TraumaThe lasting mental-health effects of the family-separation policy.
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The Lasting Damage of Depriving a Child of Human TouchAt detention centers along the border, workers are forbidden from hugging or physically soothing traumatized children.
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Do Marriages Last Longer If the Couple Dated for Longer First?Here’s the ideal length of time to be together before tying the knot.
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How to Ask Your Partner for an Open RelationshipA guide to minimizing hurt feelings and ensuring that you both feel heard.
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7 Women on What It’s Like to Have PCOS“I’ve fainted from cramps, I’ve vomited from cramps. It’s really horrible and traumatic.”
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