Fulfillment at Any Age

How to remain productive and healthy into your later years

Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D.

Why Introverts May Find It Hard When Life Returns to Normal

As the pandemic social distancing mandates come to an end, will introverts find they’re just as happy staying home? Here's what personality research predicts.

Are You the Weak Link in Your Relationship?

In a close relationship, both partners influence overall satisfaction. New research shows how to determine if you or your partner have become the weak link.

One Cue That Can Improve Your Ability to Read Emotions

When you’re trying to figure out someone’s real feelings, what aspects of their facial expressions do you use? New research suggests there may be one cue you’re missing.

7 Ways to Test Whether Your Personality Is Bringing You Down

Without realizing it, your own personality can interfere with many aspects of your daily life. A new 7-scale test can help identify and change your own self-defeating tendencies.

The Surprising Benefits of Being Ambivalent

Being chronically unable to make up your mind may seem like an undesirable quality. However, new research shows that ambivalent people have some important strengths.

Little Disagreements Can Ruin Even the Best of Relationships

Disagreements in matters of opinion can become the source of tension in relationships. New research shows trivial matters can escalate out of control unless you know what to do.

Why It's Sometimes Worth Sweating the Small Stuff

The belief that you shouldn’t get worked up over little things is widely accepted—but new research suggests that there can be times when attention to detail can work in your favor.

The Hidden Causes of Emotional Burnout

How would you describe the highs and lows of your daily life? A new study shows how emotional journeys can take their toll on your happiness and well-being.

Are Your Secrets Making You Miserable?

All relationships involve some degree of secret-keeping. New research shows which secrets are the most damaging to your well-being and how to overcome their impact.

Why Narcissists Make Life So Exhausting for Everyone Else

One of the key qualities of narcissism is the need to feel and show superiority over others. A new study suggests how to keep their manipulative efforts from leaving you exhausted.

Do You Complain Too Much?

New research suggests that rethinking stress can curb your complaining problems.

7 Steps to Nip Social Anxiety in the Bud with Imagery

If there are when your social anxiety skyrockets, new research shows how imagery can help you get back to performing without fear.

Spot the Chronic Liar With This 16-Item Deception Checklist

Good liars can lead you to mistakenly place your trust in what they’re telling you. The newest definition of deception gives you a checklist to avoid their traps.

3 Ways to Change the Mind of Your Vaccine-Hesitant Loved One

If you were among the first in line to get the COVID vaccine, it can be frustrating that people you care about remain “hesitant.” New research suggests strategies for helping them change their mind.

What Are the Myths You Hold About Your Personality?

As you reflect back on the events of your life, you do so from the perspective of your identity. New research shows how myths about your personality may play into this process.

Can Repetitive Thinking Feed Your Ego?

It's frustrating to deal with people who are convinced of their own greatness. New research suggests how to interject a dose of reality to burst the bubble.

3 Ways to Break Your Most Troublesome Mental Habits

If your mental habits are keeping you stuck in a rut, recent research suggests 3 ways to look at yourself and the world from a new, brighter perspective.

Would You Lie to Protect Your Relationship?

Relationships built on trust involve the understanding that partners will protect each other. New research on deception shows who will go so far as to lie to maintain that trust.

The Toxic Factor that Narcissists and Psychopaths Share

New research suggests that people high in narcissism and psychopathy share in "D," an underlying quality that explains both their grandiosity and lack of empathy.

What to Do When Your Partner Won't Take Your Advice

Advice-giving is a basic element of all interpersonal relationships. Research on advice rejection suggests what to do when the one you care about chooses not to follow your wisdom.

Why Everyone Needs a Hero

New research on the motivational value of heroes shows how they can help people overcome life obstacles.

How to Deal with Someone Who Puts You Down

People who make fun of others can have damaging effects on their victims. New research reveals the personalities and motives behind “disparagement humor.”

The Reason Gaslighting Is So Painful in a Close Relationship

New research shows that losing a shared sense of reality is uniquely difficult.

Has Pandemic Stress Made you an Emotional Eater?

During the lockdown of 2020 caused by COVID-19, people changed their diet and exercise habits. New research now shows who was most likely to experience the “COVID 15.”

How to Help Overly Picky People Become Less Picky

Cognitive reappraisal can be a valuable coping skill.

A Very Obvious Behavior May Be Related to Psychopathy

New research suggests differences in psychopathic traits are associated with whether a person complies with pandemic rules.

Do You Tend to Imagine the Worst in Every Situation?

It’s well-known that the way you perceive situations affects stress. New research shows that predicting doom and gloom can increase your anxiety.

The Memory Problem That Makes Life Difficult for Introverts

Remembering who said what to whom is a necessary social skill as well as a key memory ability. New research on introversion suggests how this may be particularly hard for introverts.

What Will It Take to Change Your Personality?

You may think of personality as fixed over time, but is it possible that it can change? New research on the stability of maladaptive traits suggests it may take effort—but it’s possible.

How to Calm Anxiety When You’re Afraid to Leave Home

COVID-19 restrictions may be easing, but not everyone feels ready to venture outside.

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