Professor Mark Leary

Artists often report getting lost in their work for long periods of time. Flow is an exceptionally pleasurable experience. […]

Laughter and kissing are part of normal human behavior, but their origins and purposes are still a mystery. […]

Relationship satisfaction is what keeps a couple together. When it declines, many people prefer a divorce, even after 20 years of marriage. […]

How do successful relationships get successful? There are many factors that should be included in the answer, but a very important one is the people themselves. Some people simply can manage relationships better than others. […]

People have studied blushing through evolution to see whether it is specific to humans only. They have found that surprisingly, blushing has helped many species to survive. […]

Blushing as a subject has been puzzling enough to make Darwin wonder why it really happens. Different scientific explanations have been given for blushing, but we are still looking for answers. […]

Blushing reassures people around us that we are truly feeling embarrassed, shy, or sorry, even if we do not want to show the feeling. Like other psychological experiences with a physical presence, blushing tries to save one’s face. […]

Excitation-transfer effect explains how a person decides they are in love with another person without really having special feelings for them. As confusing as it looks, the phenomenon is commonly experienced, for example, in a loud and crowded pub. […]

There are many studies conducted on the brain when passionate love is involved. Researchers scanned people’s brains in an fMRI scanner while they looked at photographs of either strangers or people they were in love with. The results showed interesting things about brain activities in love. […]