If you are studying Relationships (and their breakdown), you may be interested in this new study investigating whether a couple's behaviours during arguments predict divorce. Previous research has shown that couples who call each other names are more likely to divorce.

Three new studies carried out in the USA and China on how childcare practices affect empathy and moral development suggest that we should use the type of child rearing strategies common in hunter-gatherer societies if we want our children to have good mental health and to be caring and compassionate. These studies will be of interest to anyone studying Relationships (The influence of childhood and adolescent experiences on adult relationships) or Cognition and Development (Development of social cognition).

If you are studying Relationships this year, you may be interested in some new research by David Buss and graduate students Jaime Confer and Carin Perilloux. Their study found that men looking for short term "companionship" are more interested in her body than her face; however, men looking for long term relationships are more focused on a woman's face.

We are better at judging whether or not we are being looked at if the person doing the looking is attractive, according to new research. Students studying "The relationship between sexual selection and human reproductive behaviour" may find this useful.      

What happens in the brain when you get dumped? Helen Fisher and her colleagues put people who were in love and people who had just been dumped in an MRI scanner. In this video she talks about her findings about love in humans and animals.

This Psychology resource is a series of xkcd comic strips that are related to topics in psychology. The comic strips are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to use them in handouts etc., as long as you do not sell them. You should also attribute them to xkcd.com

A University of Kansas professor is researching details of relationships forged on social networking sites and determining their significance, depth and potential.