... Keep her guessingIt turns out there may be something to "playing hard to get." A study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that a woman is more attracted to a man when she is uncertain about how much he likes her. "If we want to know how much Sarah likes Bob, a good predictor is how much she thinks Bob likes her," write the authors of the paper, Erin R. Whitchurch and Timothy D. Wilson of the University of Virginia and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University.
It has been a half-century or so since Tim Wendel's grandfather gave him a piece of advice he took to heart. The wise gentleman told the youngster that blue-moon events happen rarely in life. When they do occur, he should take advantage of them. Wendel, a widely acclaimed sportswriter, will be doing that Wednesday evening when he moderates one of the most anticipated events in the history of the Virginia Festival of the Book. The 19th edition of the annual celebration of the book opens Wednesday and runs through March 24.
Lenard R. Berlanstein, 65, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, died Feb. 24 at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Predictors of marital unhappiness, found Bradford Wilcox at the University of Virginia, included wives who earned a large share of household income and wives who perceived the division of labor at home as unfair. Predictors of marital happiness were couples who shared a commitment to the institutional idea of marriage and couples who went to religious services together. “Our findings suggest,” he wrote, “that increased departures from a male-breadwinning-female-homemaking model may also account for declines in marital quality, insofar as men and women continue to tacitly valu...
We have a sense of what early America looked like. But Bonnie Gordon and Emily Gale (University of Virginia) ask: What did it sound like? From bawdy tavern songs to tunes commenting on Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings, Gordon and Gale are uncovering the soundscape of early America.
The tendency of young adults to put off marriage has taken a harsh toll on Americans without college degrees, according to a new study by a group of family researchers.
Giving toddlers skim or 1 percent milk to keep them from growing overweight doesn’t seem to work, according to a study out Monday that gives pause over the common advice to avoid whole milk from age 2. Researchers led by Dr. Mark DeBoer of the University of Virginia School of Medicine looked at 10,700 U.S. children at age 2 and 4.
Members of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors have asked the Faculty Senate to rescind its vote of no confidence in the board, according to the senate’s leader, a move that came in June amid the failed ouster of President Teresa Sullivan. “We want to get to a place where the faculty as a whole could have confidence,” said George Cohen, chairman of the senate. “My hope is that it wouldn’t be a hotly contested thing, that everyone would agree it was time. . . . It doesn’t look like we’ll be able to do that by June.”
The First State Bank in Danville, the last of the Jim-Crow era Black-owned banks in the state of Virginia, recently donated a large collection of its historical records to the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.
(By Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik, U.Va. Center for Politics) President Obama's greatest setback to date has been the 2010 midterm elections. Gains that Republicans scored in the House and Senate still circumscribe his agenda. It is no surprise, then, that the Obama White House wants to achieve something no other president has ever done: Retake full control of Congress in a midterm.
Some say Ryan, who is widely expected to contend for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, may be jumping off a political cliff with a plan that is being excoriated on the left and at least mildly rebuffed by some on the right. “Ryan must be doing this because he really believes in it,” said University of Virginia political expert Larry Sabato. “There’s certainly no political explanation for it that makes sense. His budget is a field day for Democrats.”
(Commentary) It appears that the conflict between Helen Dragas and Teresa Sullivan is far from over. After all the brouhaha last summer between the head of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors and its president – a battle that got national attention and sparked lots of questions at universities around the country – not much appears to have been resolved.
Pulmonologist Nancy E. Dunlap has been named the dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, but she’s only expected to be temporary. She will assume the mantle May 1.
The University of Virginia School of Law will host a conference on genetics law and ethics this spring. The conference will be held May 22-23.
A new report from the University of Virginia shows some dramatic changes in the way Americans live, with nearly half of first births occurring out of wedlock and a tendency by couples to marry in their late rather than early 20’s.
The Virginia football team was eager to hit the turf Monday for its first spring practice. Typically snow would damper the game plan, but luckily the 80,000-square-foot, $13 million George Welsh Indoor Practice facility officially opened its doors on the same day.
Economic pressures that trigger 20-somethings to delay marriage are harming Americans without college degrees, a new report finds. In contrast, the marriage delay seems to benefit the college-educated, who tend to wait to have kids until after they've married.
Giving your toddler skimmed or semi-skimmed milk is unlikely to make inroads against the risk of obesity, a large study conducted among American children has found. The paper, published on Monday in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, was led by Mark DeBoer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Robert S. “Bobby” Ukrop, president and chief executive officer of Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods and a major force in the creation of a state-of-the-art aquatics center for Richmond area, has been named the winner of the Bernard L. Savage Community Service Award. He is a 1972 graduate of the Darden School at the University of Virginia.