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☆ Jim and Pam Knew How to Survive a Soul-Crushing Office
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Alexandra Molotkow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Office crushes, in all their mercurial glory and pain, continue to shape our working lives in deeply meaningful ways. But through all these changing norms, workplace crushes remain remarkably common. Jim, after all, doesn't even ask Pam on a date until the season-three finale of "The Office." That most workplace crushes never lead to consummated relationships doesn't make them any less powerful. An admitted serial crusher, she still gets work crushes — last year she counted "a solid eight."

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☆ What New Love Does to Your Brain
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Dana G. Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

New love can consume our thoughts, supercharge our emotions and, on occasion, cause us to act out of character. “People pine for love, they live for love, they kill for love and they die for love,” said Helen Fisher, a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. Their findings suggest that song lyrics and dramatic plotlines don’t overstate it: New love can mess with our heads. Experts define “romantic love” as a connection deeper than lust, but distinct from the attachment associated with a long-term partnership. These regions are also activated by drugs like cocaine, leading some experts to liken love to a sort of “natural addiction.”

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☆ Five tips for dating in the digital age
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Andrea Kane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Each episode will focus on one of those states — the distracted brain, the frightened brain, the nourished brain, etc. She zeroed in on four brain systems: dopamine, serotonin, estrogen and testosterone. It contains the question: Have you ever met somebody whom you initially did not find attractive and eventually fell in love with? “So when you go on these introducing sites and you’ve just met somebody, you have very little information about them. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing.”We hope these five tips help you make the most of dating apps.

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