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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.
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bustle.com/p/is-cuffing-season-real-heres-why-people-crave-relationships-in-the-colder-months-according-to-science-2478180
greatist.com/connect/cuffing-season#That%E2%80%99s-right:-It%E2%80%99s-cuffing-season
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washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2016/01/01/its-high-season-for-online-dating-plot-your-moves-carefully
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psychcentral.com/thanksgiving
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academic.oup.com/jcr/article/39/2/293/1796763
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! store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/scishow-pin-of-the-month-mariner-9-probe-november
Hosted by: Brit Garner
----------
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SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at scishowtangents.org
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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
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Sources:
washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2015/10/19/welcome-to-cuffing-season-does-cold-weather-compel-us-to-couple-up
bustle.com/p/is-cuffing-season-real-heres-why-people-crave-relationships-in-the-colder-months-according-to-science-2478180
greatist.com/connect/cuffing-season#That%E2%80%99s-right:-It%E2%80%99s-cuffing-season
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/more-babies-are-conceived-during-winter-fall-180971112
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/074873049000500304
link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-012-9996-5
facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-team/the-right-time-for-love-tracking-the-seasonality-of-relationship-formation/10150643989093859
washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2016/01/01/its-high-season-for-online-dating-plot-your-moves-carefully
media.thinknum.com/articles/cuffing-season-an-uptick-in-winter-dating-activity-and-humans-is-very-real
vogue.com/article/what-is-cuffing-season
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/
psychcentral.com/thanksgiving
nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/seasonal-affective-disorder/index.shtml
youtube.com/watch?v=rs7GVXfTXWA
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673602117375
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202491
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40750-016-0052-x
http://www.psychfiledrawer.org/replication.php?attempt=MjI5
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057740813000855
http://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/v40/acr_v40_11663.pdf
frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00464/full
academic.oup.com/jcr/article/39/2/293/1796763
