How Your Neighborhood Affects Your Relationship
How Your Neighborhood Affects Your Relationship Two terms psychologists use to describe how relationships within neighborhoods are formed are the mere exposure effect, and the propinquity effect. According to the principle of the mere exposure effect, the more often you see someone, the more you’re apt to like them. According to the propinquity effect, the […]
Speak Softly…
Speak Softly… I hear many people say these days that they wish for a simpler time, when people visited with their neighbors, when the front porch was the place to be, when people spoke softly and were kind to each other. A time when kids played together outside after school and weekends, and the storekeepers […]