Laughter Might Be the Best Medicine, How Your Romantic Style Affects Your Finances, and Why Some Amphibians Glow

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

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🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Learn about how your romantic attachment style affects your finances; the surprising reason why some amphibians glow; and why laughter might really be the best medicine.

How Your Romantic Style Affects Your Finances by Kelsey Donk

How your romantic attachment style affects your finances, well-being. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uoa-hyr022520.php
Li, X., Curran, M. A., LeBaron, A. B., Serido, J., & Shim, S. (2020). Romantic Attachment Orientations, Financial Behaviors, and Life Outcomes Among Young Adults: A Mediating Analysis of a College Cohort. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-020-09664-1
Dung Minh Mao, Danes, S. M., Serido, J., & Soyeon Shim. (2017). Financial Influences Impacting Young Adults’ Relationship Satisfaction: Personal Management Quality, Perceived Partner Behavior, and Perceived Financial Mutuality. New Prairie Press. https://newprairiepress.org/jft/vol8/iss2/3/

Why Some Amphibians Glow by Cameron Duke

Glowing frogs and salamanders may be surprisingly common. (2020, February 27). Science News. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glowing-frogs-salamanders-may-be-surprisingly-common
Lamb, J. Y., & Davis, M. P. (2020). Salamanders and other amphibians are aglow with biofluorescence. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59528-9
First fluorescent frogs might see each others’ glow | Science News. (2017, April 3). Science News. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-fluorescent-frogs-might-see-each-others-glow

Laughter Might Really Be The Best Medicine by Ashley Hamer

Laughter Might Really Be The Best Medicine. (2014). Curiosity.com. https://curiosity.com/topics/how-does-laughter-work
Social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. (2011). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2011.1373
Humor, laughter, learning, and health! A brief review | Advances in Physiology Education. (2010). Advances in Physiology Education. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/advan.00030.2017
Effect and Path Analysis of Laughter Therapy on Serotonin, Depression and Quality of Life in Middle-aged Women. (2015). Koreamed.Org. https://synapse.koreamed.org/DOIx.php?id=10.4040/jkan.2015.45.2.221&vmode=PUBREADER
Heart and Vascular Team. (2016, August 15). 3 Ways That Laughter Can Give You a Healthier Heart. Health Essentials from Cleveland Clinic; Health Essentials from Cleveland Clinic. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/3-ways-laughter-can-give-healthier-heart-2/

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.0	I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you learn about how your romantic attachment style affects your finances,
0:12.0	the surprising reason why some amphibians glow, and
0:16.2	why laughter might really be the best medicine.
0:19.2	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:21.3	When it comes to your romantic relationships, are you a free spirit or more on the clingy side?
0:26.9	Your answer might not just say something about your dating life, it might say something
0:31.2	about your wallet, because a new University of Arizona study says that your romantic tendencies could actually impact your finances.
0:39.0	And by romantic tendencies, I mean something researchers call attachment orientation.
0:45.0	That has two dimensions.
0:47.2	The first is attachment anxiety.
0:49.8	That's the tendency to avoid self-reliance in favor of a close attachment with others.
0:55.5	People with a lot of attachment anxiety are what you might call clangy.
1:00.4	The second dimension is attachment avoidance or the tendency to rely solely on yourself and push other people away
1:08.2	If neither of these dimensions sounds great you might be onto something.
1:13.0	The new study analyzed data from 635 college-educated folks in relationships
1:18.0	and found that people who are high in either one of these dimensions are less happy and have more financial problems.
1:25.5	What's more, the researchers think the financial problems are a reason for at least some of the
1:30.0	unhappiness.
1:31.6	That might sound weird. I mean what do your relationships have to do with
1:35.2	your finances? But there's a logic to it. The researchers looked at two types of
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