Sentences with phrase «less romantic experience»

But in general, Chinese students leave high school with a lot less romantic experience than their American counterparts.

Not exact matches

Throughout adolescence, teens became increasingly less skilled at establishing autonomy and closeness in friendships and romantic relationships the more psychological control they experienced from their parents.

Research also shows that mindful people experience less emotional stress during romantic conflicts and engage in better communication overall.

Some 35 % of teens have some type of experience in a romantic relationship, a figure that includes current and former daters, as well as those in serious and less - serious relationships.

Kaufmann suggests that we have to reverse out of the cul de sac of sex for sex's sake and recombine it with love once more to make our experiences less chilly but also less clouded by romantic illusions.

Comic Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up) is touring the nation asking passersby from all walks of life their thoughts on the nature of love when a chance encounter with young gadabout Michael Cera (Michael Cera)-- more or less Yi's ideological soul mate — convinces her documentary's director, Nick Jasenovec (played on camera by an affable Jake Johnson), that they've found the perfect opportunity for romantic skeptic Yi to experience love first hand.

The Belko Experiment from the subversive combination of writer James Gunn (Slither, Super, Guardians of the Galaxy) and director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek, Wolf Creek 2, The Darkness), and they aim for a primal experience, less romantic than The Hunger Games and less darkly comic than Battle Royale.

A group of researchers hypothesized that experiencing schadenfreude signals to oneself that the «mate value» (or how desirable a person is to potential romantic partners) of the misfortunate person has been decreased.1 For example, a group of women may laugh at a man who trips and may see him as less of a «catch» than a man who strides by confidently.

Consequently, we expected individuals from collectivistic backgrounds to experience higher parental influence on their mate choice, and in turn, report feeling less committed to their romantic partner.

Those who have had more romantic experiences — for example, more sexual or cohabiting partners — are more likely to have lower - quality marriages than those with a less complicated romantic history.

Toro - Morn & Sprecher (2003) have argued that East Asian couples are less likely to report experiencing romantic passion than people from Western countries.

Fearful - avoidant participants were less likely to be in a romantic relationship, and those that were tended to report experiencing dissatisfaction in their relationships.

Additionally, Yarnell and Neff (2013) found that when resolving romantic relationship conflicts, those with higher levels of self - compassion were more likely to compromise and balance the need of self and other, and less likely to experience emotional turmoil.