"We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection.  This protection comes at a steep price.  When we are not truly known by the other people in our lives, we are misunderstood.  When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the "lonely crowd."  Worse, when we succeed in hiding our being from others, we tend to lose touch with our real selves.  This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms. "

Sidney Jourard

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Recent research: articles from December journals

6th January 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

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Recent research: six studies on couples - attraction, touch, viewpoint, comparison, empathy & sex

4th December 2008

Here are half a dozen recent studies on men & women. Elliot & Niesta found that red, relative to other colours, lead men to view women as "more attractive and sexually desirable". Holt-Lundstad & colleagues randomized couples to a "support enhancement intervention" involving shared gentle massage for 30 minutes three …

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