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more about #highanxiety more comments → EsmereldaFitzmonster: Did they consider the fact that high-anxiety women might overstate their happiness? If someone's being negative to her boyfriend in an attempt to comp... more » clevernamehere: One idea keeps popping up on this thread that really bothers me. Its the idea that if a woman is borderline emotional abusive to a man, it is his faul... more » clevernamehere: I used to administer a task like this to mothers and children and was pretty interesting to watch. A lot of the mothers would totally steamroll over t... more » Erda: But you know, a lot of high-anxiety women do the exact opposite. I feel like this was implied in the study but not really explicitly stated. (because... more » sciencerules: It would be really, really interesting to see a study like this repeated, say, five or ten years later. But this is an interesting concept, good stud... more » bleedingmouths: I have been in the high-anxiety - kind-boyfriend situation before. He was a very sweet, very nice guy and took everything I threw at him. He didn't ... more » suck_it_monkeys: The scientists speculated that the highly anxious women in good relationships felt freer to treat their boyfriends badly when they weren't stressed ab... more » lalaland13: Also, there are different types of anxiety. If I were part of this study, I might just apologize a lot to the boyfriend for being so stupid and not be... more » morninggloria: If this were me, I would tell Boyfriend to just let me do the project myself, so that I do not yell at him. more » PreposterousHypothesis: I haz a confused, but let me see if I have this straight: High-anxiety women with nice boyfriends are bitchy to them, and everyone else. Could they be... more » lalaland13: If someone likes you and you don't like yourself, it's hard to reconcile the two. You think, "Why does this person like me? What's wrong with them?" a... more » Dita DimonĂ©: So did they test men too? I don't know any men I've dated who wouldn't get pissy in such a situation. Funny, you never hear about a male nag. more » vlvtjones: Some people can't be happy unless they make other people miserable. It's not right, but there it is. more » Penny: The one thing I CAN say is that it's probably not a great idea to conduct this kind of study on college-aged women. I know very few men who were matu... more » Devonna: I wonder how much of the boyfriend interaction (in the high anxiety/"supportive response") scenario falls under enabling. My anecdote on this that I ... more » -
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Scientists Study Social Stress, Romance & Bad Behavior In College-Age Relationships
We all know the stereotype of The Nag: the woman who is always mean to her significant other regardless of how nice he is to her. The stereotype says she's the one with a big ego: science suggests otherwise. More »
