3 Ways the "Michelangelo Effect" Can Strengthen Your Bond

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3 Ways the "Michelangelo Effect" Can Strengthen Your Bond

Want a relationship as beautiful as a piece of art? Here's how to create one through the "Michelangelo effect."

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To support each other in the relationship to become the best version of oneself. This is what psychologists call the “Miguel Angel phenomenon”. According to a study carried out by researchers at the Free University of Amsterdam, published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, this couple model, inspired by the famous Italian Renaissance artist who sculpted beauty in stone, “suggests that close relationships sculpt each othe…