Ongoing political controversies around the world exemplify a long-standing and widespread
preoccupation with the acceptability of homosexuality. Nonheterosexual people have seen …

While trait positive emotionality and state positive-valence affect have long been the subject
of intense study, the importance of differentiating among several “discrete” positive emotions …

Emotions are centered in subjective experiences that people represent, in part, with
hundreds, if not thousands, of semantic terms. Claims about the distribution of reported …

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people—including members of the lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, and queer communities—are understudied and underrepresented in …

Sexual orientation typically describes people's sexual attractions or desires based on their
sex relative to that of a target. Despite its utility, it has been critiqued in part because it fails to …

The current research used two 8-wave longitudinal studies spanning the first 4–5 years of
207 marriages to examine the potential bidirectional associations among marital …

The present article presents a review of identity status-based theory and research with
adolescents and emerging adults, with some coverage of related approaches such as …

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them.
After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's …

This comprehensive handbook provides a landmark review and synthesis of the current
state of knowledge about attachment and loss in children and adults. Broad in scope, the …

The Laws of Emotion is an accessible work that reviews much of the insightful new research
on emotions conducted over the last ten years. It expands on the theory of emotions …