Tagged: relationships

Technological change and the future of love - FutureworkNZ

Guest Author • Aug 12, 2019 •

• dating,
• online,
• relationships,
• Technology

John MacCormick Online matchmaking has radically changed the way people search for love. Digital marketplaces for romance offer more choice, fewer constraints, and potentially less risk than “traditional” ways of finding prospective mates. How much has this changed the nature and quality of people’s romantic relationships? Jack MacCormick In a similar way, digital labour market platforms change matchmaking for … Read More

Five ideas for reforming mental health care in New Zealand - The Psychology Report

Sarb Johal • Oct 30, 2017 •

• capitalism with a human face,
• connectedness,
• Mental health,
• mental health service access,
• NICE,
• NZGG,
• Pharmac,
• Psychology,
• public mental health,
• reform,
• relationships,
• resilience,
• social support,
• Standards,
• TIME,
• wellbeing,
• workforce development

The first article in this short series looked at the scale and scope of the problem of increasing mental health related presentations in New Zealand. In that first article, I argued that ‘Capitalism with a Human Face’ can take its place in altering the settings of the economy in favour of the experience of those who live and work in it, … Read More

Quality of relationships matter for fathers and their children’s development - The Psychology Report

Sarb Johal • Mar 20, 2017 •

• children,
• Family,
• fatherhood,
• fathers,
• Parenting Stress Inventory,
• Psychology,
• relationships,
• stress

In this Psychology Report, I talk with Associate Professor Claire Vallotton from the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and Michigan State University in the USA, about father’s parenting stress and its relationship to cognitive and language development in toddlers. This interview is based on the findings of this paper, and you can listen to the podcast as … Read More

Unfaithfully yours: what happens when virtual reality affairs get real? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Dec 02, 2016 •

• affairs,
• cyberspace,
• infidelity,
• relationships,
• sex,
• virtual reality,
• VR

By David Evans Bailey, Auckland University of Technology July 2015 might well be known as the month online infidelity went public. This date coincided with one of the biggest and most revealing hacks in history when the Ashley Madison database was compromised and made available online. Ashley Madison, a dating website targeted at people already married or in … Read More