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Close intercultural romantic relationships and friendships can boost creativity

19.09.2018 Health Problems

You’ve worked abroad. You’ve lived abroad. But have you had a close friendship or romantic relationship with a person from a culture drastically different from your own? If not, you might be missing out on a powerful way to boost your own creativity, recent research shows. A study by MIT Sloan assistant professor of work and organization studies Jackson Lu […]

How parents cause children’s friendships to end

11.05.2018 Health Problems

Making a friend is hard work. Keeping one is even harder, especially for young children. A novel study published in the Journal of Family Psychology sheds light on why childhood friendships fall apart and is the first to demonstrate that parents are an important source of these breakups. Looking at data from 1,523 children (766 boys) from grades one to […]