Neurotic? We prescribe sex: The problem's very simple, as stated in the first sentence of this article: "A robust literature indicates that neuroticism has numerous negative implications for romantic relationships." So, what's a neurotic to do? Apparently, roll in the hay. "A lagged multilevel analysis revealed that although neuroticism was negatively associated with marital satisfaction on average," the authors continue, "it was unrelated to marital satisfaction when couples had engaged in relatively frequent sex over the past 6 months." Given the propensity of people to lie about how often they're having sex, the authors were careful to ask both halves of the couple what their sexual frequency was.
No word on whether sex helps the antisocial, but marriage apparently does: Men who are married are very unlikely to be formally diagnosed as antisocial, but is that a cause or effect? In other words, are antisocial males less likely to get married, or does marriage reduce antisocial behavior? A bit of both, it seems. Antisocial men are less likely to get married, but it seems that, if they do manage to tie the knot, their partners help mellow their discomfort with others. The study took a bit of an unusual approach, in that it estimated how antisocial someone would be if they weren't married by testing for these tendencies in a monozygotic twin. Identical twins show lots of characteristics in common, but this seems to be a fairly large logical leap.
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