Fulfillment at Any Age

How to remain productive and healthy into your later years

Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D.

Is Your Relationship Suffering from Money Problems?

COVID-19 is placing stress on couples dealing with economic hardship. New research takes a broad look at how to turn money arguments into constructive ways to talk to your partner.

A New Personality Test Also Gauges Mental Health

The latest research-based test to understand your personality traits.

4 Simple Ways to Test Your Relationship’s Emotional Health

New research examines the connection between four simple behavioral indicators and marital satisfaction.

The Dangers of Denial When You're in the Wrong

When you’ve done something wrong, it can be hard to admit your mistakes. New research suggests your image can suffer more when you refuse to accept the truth.

Are You Feeling Stuck in Your Relationship?

In a new study, couples shared their experiences of feeling stuck in their relationships, suggesting how you can become unstuck in yours.

How Narcissists Protect Themselves from Feeling Like Losers

When people fail, they tend to feel worse about themselves. Personality research suggests that people high in narcissism find ways to protect themselves from feeling like losers.

What to Do When Someone Just Can't Stand to Lose

Whenever there's a competition someone has to come in second. Research shows what's going on in the mind of losers and how to calm them down.

Is It Possible to Be Too Much of a Positive Thinker?

The idea that you should try to think positively is basic to many people’s ideas of good mental health. New research on optimism suggests that there may be a catch.

Would You Give Your All to Support Your Partner?

People in loving relationships vow to commit themselves to each other. However, overcommitting can have risks for well-being, according to a new long-term study.

The Emotional Strength of Introverts During the Pandemic

New research on personality under COVID-19 shows that during a time of social distancing and isolation, introverts may have the emotional resources needed to overcome loneliness.

6 Ways to Put Your Envious Feelings Behind You for Good

If envy is getting in the way of your relationships, these 6 quick tricks from the newest approach in psychology will help you this keep this dangerous emotion under wraps.

The Little Things That Can Take Over in Borderline Disorder

Difficulties in regulating emotions are seen as core to borderline personality disorder. A new approach tracks how these difficulties emerge in everyday life.

How to Manage Your Partner's Risky Behaviors

Relationships are usually viewed as beneficial to health but trends in facemask use and male stereotypes suggest one way that yours could be causing more harm than you realize.

3 Ways to Get in Touch with Important Unfelt Feelings

When you experience a feeling, you tend to know it. New research on the psychology of emotions suggests there's value in tapping into the feelings that lurk under the surface.

Does Your Partner Make You Feel Like a Loser?

A partner who needs to one-up you can be not only tiring but discouraging. New research suggests how to build yourself back up.

What Does Being Sick Reveal About People’s Personalities?

The hospitalization of the President is just the latest example of what physicians call “VIP Syndrome." However, the syndrome's effects can be seen even with non-VIPs with narcissistic personalities.

Does Your Partner Try to Destroy Your Other Relationships?

New relationships research suggests that a romantic partner's responsiveness can have unintended consequences by creating wedges with others you care about.

The New Way to Reverse Even Your Worst Mood

Getting angry over little things can interfere with your well-being and relationships. The latest personality research suggests how to reverse a bad mood.

4 Great Ways to Get Your Partner to Follow Your Advice

There’s an art and science to giving advice, even to the person you care about most. These research-based tips will help make sure your advice helps, not hurts.

The Latest and Simplest Way to Spot a Narcissist

Determining who is high in narcissism is an important adaptive skill. During COVID-19, there’s a simple way to tell just by looking at what they do and don't do.

What Would It Take for You to Forgive Your Partner?

It can be difficult for you to forgive a partner who let you down or betrayed you. New research on decision-making shows how, literally, you can “forgive and forget."

Relationship Troubles Start Early in Borderline Personality

People with borderline personality are known to have problematic relationships. New research shows the role of first impressions in creating these interpersonal difficulties.

What Do You Think Makes a Relationship Work?

Everyone would like to know what makes a relationship work. New research takes a mega-approach to tease apart the many pieces of this puzzle.

How to Set Limits When People Demand Too Much of You

Everyone is feeling the pressure of COVID-19, especially when people demand too much of you.

6 Ways to Calm Down an Out-of-Control Partner

If your partner becomes easily unhinged, new research suggests six ways to help foster a sense of calm.

The Right Kind of Practice May Give You the Memory You Want

New neuroscience research suggests a simple exercise can help sharpen memory.

Are You Sure Your Partner Really Wants What’s Best for You?

In a close relationship you expect your partner to want the best for you but according to new research this doesn’t always happen. See what motives drive the unsupportive partner.

Once a Narcissist, Not Necessarily Always a Narcissist

You may think of people high in narcissism as completely fixed in their tendencies, but a new study shows that change may be possible.

Can a New Relationship Solve Your Old Problems?

Getting out of one relationship and into another may seem to be the perfect way to leave your cares behind. New research shows that the solution isn’t always quite that simple.

Is There Such a Thing as an Honest Mistake?

What is your measuring stick for gauging a so-called honest mistake? How little or big does it have to be? New research suggests how to separate the truthful from the deceptive.

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