Psychological therapy may yield greater benefits if providers can meet patients' preferences, a UK study suggests. Most of the nearly 15,000 study participants had treatment preferences - and those whose preferences weren't met were less likely to say the treatments helped with their problems, the researchers report in BMC Psychiatry. "When it comes to psychological therapies, it’s critical that people are invested in them and they engage in them fully," said senior author Dr. Mike Crawford, of Imperial College London. "When people don’t engage in them fully, they’re less likely >>>

John Gottman, a professor of psychology who specialises in marital stability is able to predict with 93.6 per cent accuracy whether a couple is going to divorce, according to a 1992 study. He doesn’t do this just using guesswork – instead when he observes couples he looks for specific indicators that suggest there are problems in the relationship that could lead to divorce. In his book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, which was first published in 1999, Gottman outlines what he is looking for when he predicts who is going to split up and who will stay happily together. There >>>

When it comes to how the market ended this week, it’s all psychological, according to Jerry Gulke of the Gulke Group. Whereas corn finished up 6 cents on Friday, soybean prices couldn’t hold onto the gains they made after USDA’s Tuesday reports. “You have to look over your shoulder because all you hear about is that big crop in South America,” Gulke says. “…We’ve got this psychological thing hanging over our heads out of South America that we‘ve got to get rid of this supply, and they’re trying sell them as quick as they can. China is buying beans from them and us, which >>>

Ladies, when you are attracted to a man, do you find yourself overlooking every little error? Do you find all his actions and gestures romantic even when in real sense they're not? Isn't it sad when he constantly forgets important dates and you perpetually justify his mistakes?Well, here's the reality – the only difference between his actions being romantic and selfish is how attractive you find him. That's the norm in modern dating. This is quite sad because, guys, if a woman doesn't find you attractive, even if you go to the sky and bring back a star, she will yawn at the gesture.Take a look >>>