SciShow Psych: 'Tis The Season for Snuggles: The Psychology of Cuffing Season

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Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: It’s wintertime in the Northern Hemisphere, which means cold weather, shorter days, and… new relationships? It’s known as cuffing season, and there are actual psychological reasons you may be more inclined to settle down with a romantic partner - at least until the snow melts. Check out our Mariner 9 pin here! https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/scishow-pin-of-the-month-mariner-9-probe-november Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2015/10/19/welcome-to-cuffing-season-does-cold-weather-compel-us-to-couple-up/ https://www.bustle.com/p/is-cuffing-season-real-heres-why-people-crave-relationships-in-the-colder-months-according-to-science-2478180 https://greatist.com/connect/cuffing-season#That%E2%80%99s-right:-It%E2%80%99s-cuffing-season https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/more-babies-are-conceived-during-winter-fall-180971112/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/074873049000500304 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-012-9996-5 https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-team/the-right-time-for-love-tracking-the-seasonality-of-relationship-formation/10150643989093859 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2016/01/01/its-high-season-for-online-dating-plot-your-moves-carefully/ https://media.thinknum.com/articles/cuffing-season-an-uptick-in-winter-dating-activity-and-humans-is-very-real/ https://www.vogue.com/article/what-is-cuffing-season https://www.bustle.com/p/is-cuffing-season-real-heres-why-people-crave-relationships-in-the-colder-months-according-to-science-2478180 http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/the-reason-for-the-season-why-flu-strikes-in-winter/ https://psychcentral.com/thanksgiving/ https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/seasonal-affective-disorder/index.shtml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs7GVXfTXWA https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673602117375 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202491/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40750-016-0052-x http://www.psychfiledrawer.org/replication.php?attempt=MjI5 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057740813000855 http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/v40/acr_v40_11663.pdf https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00464/full https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/39/2/293/1796763


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