.... or something... el caso es que ya llegó y ya está aquí, and under its allsomightymorphin'power there's nothing left to do, so......
¡Feliz feliz feliz Natiividad navideñizadora v. 08!
Pensándolo seriamente, siempre estuve bajo el influjo de la navideñización, sin embargo, cuando era ñiñuela, la emoción navideñil se debía (entre más factores) a:
- ser una tregua,
- los regalos,
- el olor a canela,
- la emoción de poner el árbol,
- mi dulce de choletas para mí choleta,
- mis Geli,
- y al vinil de la Navidad de Parchis que ponía una y otra vez para escuchar a mi novio Tino (aahh Tino).
Ahora que lo veo, sigue siendo todo eso (menos Tino) pero hay más, es en efecto una tregua, son los maravillosos regalos, son las aquerosas castaaañas asándose a fuego lento y es el espacio de vuelta. De regreso a la una, de depuración y de claridad... y sí, consciente estoy de que suena de lo máaaaaaaaaaas cursi y teletonesco del mundo, pero es 100% cierto. A mí me llega en navidad, a mucha gente le llega en Junio, en Marzo o en Agosto, o de a poquito cada noche o en cada maniana.... Por eso yo me alegro como nunca en esta fecha, y por eso io deseo -tan fácil como un pedir un deseo- un muy feliz regocijo en uno y en su(s) otro(s), ya sea ahora o ya sea en la fecha de su preferencia.
Así que MUY MUY FELIZ NAVIDAD O FELIZ FESTEJO RENOVADOR DE SU ELECCIÓN.
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ResponderEliminar1. Extra care needed when buying Xmas gifts for a man
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As you go shopping for Christmas presents this holiday, bear in mind that
buying the wrong gift for a man could put your relationship with him in
jeopardy, whereas buying a bad gift for a woman is far less dangerous.
That's according to Elizabeth Dunn and colleagues who asked dozens of
participants to rate their preference for twelve different stores, and to
then choose a gift for their partner, in the form of a chance to win
vouchers from one of those stores.
The researchers fixed the results so that half the participants were told
their partner had chosen, as a gift, the chance for them to win vouchers
from their favourite store, as indicated earlier (i.e. a good gift), whereas
the other half were told their partner had chosen for them the chance to win
vouchers from their least favourite store (i.e. a bad gift).
When the experiment was conducted with research partners who'd only met for
four minutes, the results were as you might expect. Both the men and women
who received "bad gifts" rated their research partner as less similar to
themselves, compared with the recipients of a "good gift".
Past research has shown that perceived similarity with a partner is
associated with greater relationship satisfaction - we like to think our
partners are similar to us. So this first study shows the potential harm
that receiving a bad gift can do by damaging that sense of similarity.
Intriguingly, when the experiment was repeated with romantic partners, a
gender difference emerged. As before, compared with male recipients of a
good gift, male recipients of a bad gift subsequently rated their romantic
partner as less similar to them. They also rated the prospects for the
future of their relationship more negatively, saying, for example, that they
would be less likely to get married! By contrast, compared with female
recipients of a good gift, female recipients of a bad gift actually rated
their romantic partner as more similar to them and they rated the outlook
for their relationship as more rosy.
What was going on? The researchers think their findings are consistent with
the tendency for women to act as guardians of relationships, and that their
positive reaction to the receipt of a bad gift was a form of psychological
defence against the disappointment of receiving a dud present.
"That is, in response to the relational threat posed by receiving a bad gift
from a partner, women may be more motivated than men to protect their sense
of similarity to the gift-giver," the researchers said, adding that this
reflects "the broader tendency for women - more than men - to guard
relationships against potential threats."
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Elizabeth W. Dunn, Jeff Huntsinger, Janetta Lun, Stacey Sinclair (2008). The
Gift of Similarity: How Good and Bad Gifts Influence Relationships. Social
Cognition, 26 (4), 469-481. DOI: 10.1521/soco.2008.26.4.469.
Author weblink: http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~dunnlab/index.htm