Research News:
Breaking up not that hard to do
EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Lovers may anticipate a breakup as much more devastating than it actually is, U.S. researchers have found.
Study co-author Eli Finkel, a psychologist in Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences in Evanston, Ill., says there is a growing body of literature showing that people demonstrate remarkably poor insight when asked to predict the magnitude of their distress following emotional events such as a breakup.
In the study, each participant needed to be involved in a dating relationship of at least two months and participants completed a set of questionnaires every two weeks for 38 weeks, for a total of 20 online sessions, to measure predicted and actual stress, as well as how much in love they felt.

The Research:
Read the research behind this story in Journal of experimental social psychology.