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June 29, 2012

Strange But True!

Q. What's a most surprising way to predict whether your marriage is likely to last?

A. Take a look at your spouse's early photographs from youth or college and check out his or her “smile intensity” and hope to see a beaming smile rather than a faint or ironic one, suggest DePauw University psychologist Matthew Hertenstein and others, as reported by David G. Myers in “Psychology: Tenth Edition.” As the Jewish proverb goes, “As at 7, so at 70,” stressing the continuity of who we are. In fact, the research showed that “none of the people who fell within the top 10 percent of smile strength had divorced, while within the bottom 10 percent of smilers, almost one in four had had a marriage that ended.”


 
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