Happy #ValentinesDay from the JSPR team! Interested in planning a date that will promote closeness in your relationship? Check out Harasymchuk et al.'s (2021) paper on the roles of relationship goals and self-expansion in date night-planning: doi.org/10.1177/026540…

We are loving Amy Muise debunking the popular “Love Languages” on Fresh Air with Ismaila Alfa - cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Prof. Amy Muise with YorkUHealth talks to Ontario Today listeners about reigniting romance, expressing love in a broad sense outside of romantic relationships and why putting the work in is key. bit.ly/3OLcvi2

I'm pleased to announce a joint virtual symposium between IARR and EASP on May 15th called "What's Love Got To Do With It (Part II): Inequality in Close Relationships". Abstracts are due on March 15th and can be submitted here: nuritshnabel.wixsite.com/easp-iarr

“People love a metaphor, you know?” YorkUHealth Prof Amy Muise tells Nautilus Magazine re: the popularity of the Five Love Languages. “But having this fixed mindset about your love identity isn’t as helpful as understanding that relationships take work." bit.ly/3I3N6N6

Our department was featured by the Canadian Psychological Association @CPA_SCP for Psychology Month. Check it out here!

The popular notion that there are 5 love language is mostly bullshit, according to a review of relationship science journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Interesting talk by Katarina Kovacevic: people endorse spontaneous sex more than planned sex- but there was no association between spontaneous sex and sexual satisfaction TheRealSSTAR Amy Muise tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We are thrilled to announce Mariko Visserman as one of the winners of our early career research awards! Over the next year, Mariko will be conducting research to advance the science of gratitude using archived data available in dataverse.unc.edu/dataverse/ggdv

Yay!

Young women who took a one-week social-media break experienced a huge benefit to their body image and self-esteem, a new study by Psychology Prof. Jennifer Mills and other York researchers has found. YorkUHealth Elsevier | ScienceDirect yorku.ca/news/2024/04/2…

Is a decline in sexual attraction in long-term #relationships inevitable? Can we get too close to our partners? Relationship expert Amy Muise answers these questions and more on #UndertheCortex 🎙️psychologicalscience.org/news/utc-2024-…

NEWS RELEASE: Government of Canada announces increase in award values for federal scholarships and fellowships. Students and postdocs to receive increases as of September 1, 2024. Learn more: canada.ca/en/innovation-…

New episode drop! Here we chat with Amy Muise about her research on sex and relationship health. We also reminisced about the good old days writing for Science of Relationships! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

Drs. Muise and Freud were recently named York Research Chairs to recognize their outstanding excellence and innovation in their fields of research. yfile.news.yorku.ca/2024/06/26/yor…

Our results are in for the Love Together, Parent Together program - which our team fondly refers to as L2P2 😊. Check out the infographic👇🏼to see how this very brief couple’s intervention helped parents, and what they thought.

We are looking for a new editor! Deadline for applications August 31st, 2024. See below for details and we appreciate any help spreading the word.

Are you considering applying to graduate school but unsure where to start? The Decolonizing, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (DEDI) committee in psychology at York University is inviting you to an informative event to help you navigate the grad school app process with ease.

MacLab rising star Elaine Hoan has a new paper: Single women are higher in well-being than single men. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19… 1/3

A personal story about how the potential grant funding freeze might affect science. Right now, I'm in my fourth year of a 5-year NIH grant and my last year of funding is supposed to start February 1st. I'm supporting a postdoc, two graduate students, and two lab managers