Psychology Current Event 7/22/13
Current Event
Healthday News finds that long-distance relationships may actually form stronger bonds. I found this topic quite interesting because I had once had a long distance relationship. Authors Crystal Jiang of City University of Hong Kong and Jeffrey Hancock of Cornell University were in charge of some of the experiments.
I find it very interesting because I had experienced a long distance relationship. However, my experience was the opposite. I had drifted away from my girlfriend because I had a new life in the new area I had moved to. I had to deal with school, making new friends, and establish a new life. There was too much going on to have kept up with my girlfriend. Current statistics show that 3 million couples live apart. Between 25-50% of college students have long distance relationships. 75% of college students have had a long distance relationship at least once in their life. Apparently the reason long distance relationships help form stronger bonds is because those long distance relationships that are successful found other means to communicate and other means to interact on a daily basis such as texting, video chats, e-mails, and phone calls. There are 2 factors that helped create greater feeling of intimacy. Those 2 factors are that they disclosed more about themselves and they idealized their partners' behaviors.
Although long distance relationships may be a challenge, those long distance relationships try harder in communicating affection and intimacy and pay off in the
Healthday News finds that long-distance relationships may actually form stronger bonds. I found this topic quite interesting because I had once had a long distance relationship. Authors Crystal Jiang of City University of Hong Kong and Jeffrey Hancock of Cornell University were in charge of some of the experiments.
I find it very interesting because I had experienced a long distance relationship. However, my experience was the opposite. I had drifted away from my girlfriend because I had a new life in the new area I had moved to. I had to deal with school, making new friends, and establish a new life. There was too much going on to have kept up with my girlfriend. Current statistics show that 3 million couples live apart. Between 25-50% of college students have long distance relationships. 75% of college students have had a long distance relationship at least once in their life. Apparently the reason long distance relationships help form stronger bonds is because those long distance relationships that are successful found other means to communicate and other means to interact on a daily basis such as texting, video chats, e-mails, and phone calls. There are 2 factors that helped create greater feeling of intimacy. Those 2 factors are that they disclosed more about themselves and they idealized their partners' behaviors.
Although long distance relationships may be a challenge, those long distance relationships try harder in communicating affection and intimacy and pay off in the