If you are in a relationship and want to increase your odds that it will remain stable and alive, then you need Cheap Psychological Tricks for Lovers. Psychologist Perry Buffington offers 55 inside secrets, all ethical and based in scientific research, to enhance your odds of being successful in love and/or marriage.

This entertaining, well-researched guide will help readers find a mate, keep a mate, fix a troubled relationship, and make love last. Readers will learn:

• Pick-up lines that work
• How to write the perfect personal ad
• The connection between a full moon and amour
• The relationship between sex and hunger
• Why those who laugh together stay together
• Does playing hard to get really work?
• How to argue fair… and win
• Pet names… what they really mean

Sometimes parents need more resources than love, consistency, and patience to successfully navigate kids through childhood and keep themselves sane at the same time. After all, how do you motivate kids to pick up after themselves and to eat their vegetables without nagging?

Psychologist and best-selling author Perry Buffington shows parents how to outsmart their kids and keep a measure of control in the household using tricks and techniques based on current research in the field of behavioral psychology. Using the professional wisdom and effective shortcuts in the book, parents can learn how to:

• quickly and effectively toilet train little boys
• manage children’s nightmares
• improve a child’s self control, memory, and coordination
• help your child improve academic performance and quell school-related anxieties

Written in down-to-earth language, here is an arsenal of practical methods parents can use to improve their kids’ socialization, motivate them to behave better, and encourage them to reach their potential.