This study examined the relation between attachment to opposite sex parents and attachment to romantic partners. Previous research has indicated that attachments to parents closely resemble attachments to romantic partners (Hazan & Shaver, 1987). However, little research has examined whether attachment to the mother or father is more predictive of attachment to romantic partners, and whether th...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to examine disparities in health insurance coverage for children with same-sex parents and to investigate how statewide policies such as same-sex marriage and second-parent adoptions affect children's private insurance coverage. METHODS We used data from the 2008-2010 American Community Survey to identify children (aged 0-17 years) with same-sex pa...

The friends with benefits relationship (FWBR) is a complex, opposite-sex friendship in which partners freely engage in sexual activity within the relationship, but do not interact as romantic partners, but rather as platonic friends. And while framed as apparently beneficial, the current study attempted to determine if, in fact, any relational benefits actually exist within the FWBR as compared...

Two studies (Ns = 80 and 108) tested hypotheses derived from Kirkpatrick and Ellis's (2001) extension and application of sociometer theory to mating aspirations. Experiences of social rejection-acceptance by attractive opposite-sex confederates were experimentally manipulated, and the impact of these manipulations on self-esteem, mating aspirations, and friendship aspirations was assessed. Resu...

In Census Bureau classifications, married-couple households only consist of opposite-sex couples, while unmarried partner households may consist of either opposite-or same-sex couples. This classification relies not only on the accuracy of the responses to the household relationship item—either as a spouse or unmarried partner—but also to those on gender. Although gender is usually the most acc...

Prosecutors exercise substantial discretion within the criminal justice process, potentially allowing for discrepant treatment of cases. The purpose this research was to examine association between prosecutorial implicit biases and victim gender sexual orientation in an intimate partner violence (IPV) case. Participants, 201 prosecutors from across United States, completed two Implicit Associat...

today, mobile phone as one of manifestations of new communication technology plays an important role in human individual and social life and it is included an inseparable part in their daily relations so that we can claim that life is impossible without it for many of people or at least it doesn't have any desirability. the influence of mobile phone applications in life different matters, ...

Testosterone is an important hormone in the sexual differentiation of the brain, contributing to differences in cognitive abilities between males and females. For instance, studies in clinical populations such as females with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) who are exposed to high levels of androgens in utero support arguments for prenatal testosterone effects on characteristics such as vi...