Your honey helps you become a better person—and vice versa! According to a new study in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, we all tend to improve our partners by encouraging positive personality traits and helping them achieve personal goals. For instance, your sweetie may help you overcome shyness by asking you to share one of your funniest stories at a dinner party. And you might help your sweetie achieve a lifelong dream of learning the guitar by signing him up for lessons.
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Sure, Oscar night is famous for its glitz and glam as our favorite actresses get dressed to the nines and stroll the red carpet. But, special occasions are not the only time actors—or you—should dress up. A study in the Home Economics Journal reveals that wearing your dressier outfits for everyday activities makes people see you as friendlier and 
1. Spark a stronger connection with a kiss. Lafayette College research shows that your kisses trigger a surge of the bonding hormone oxytocin in your guy, making him feel closer to you instantly. Bonus: His kisses give you a tiny dose of testosterone, a hormone that ignites desire. 
You’ll be turning men’s heads this Valentine’s Day when you wear a red dress, red blouse, red hair band, red lipstick, red earrings or red flower in your hair. In five experiments, University of Rochester psychologists found that the color red makes men instantly more attracted to the woman wearing it. Men’s brains, like those of other primates, are naturally wired to respond positively to the fiery color because it signals good health and sexual maturity, the researchers explain.
Use it to write down a list of household tasks—such as doing laundry, walking the dog and taking out the trash—and who’s responsible for doing each. According to a recent study in the journal Communication Research, couples who make it clear who’s responsible for certain household tasks have warmer, more positive conversations than couples who don’t make it clear. And, no wonder! Without a clear-cut list, each partner expects the other to take care of it, resulting in arguments when it doesn’t get done.
But, surprisingly, it’s not doing favors for your better half that boosts your appeal—it’s when you do favors for someone else, such as bringing food to a food pantry, driving a neighbor to an appointment or donating clothes to a shelter. That’s the news from researchers at the University of Nottingham in the U.K., who, in a series of recent studies, found that people were more attracted to partners who did selfless acts for others.
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