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People report more marital satisfaction in midlife, with a bump in bliss as the children grow up and leave home, Levenson said.

Instead, Levenson thinks the heightened sadness response might be beneficial for maintaining and strengthening social ties.

Jay Levenson: It depends on which country in Asia you are talking about.

The trial 'will probably be a battle of experts over the use of propofol, ' said Ms. Levenson, who isn't connected to the case.

"It's not the same as malpractice, " said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School.

Jill Levenson, of Lynn University in Florida, says half of registered sex offenders have trouble finding jobs.

But Levenson says he believes the list of films he developed with Gross is the most widely used by emotion researchers.

Sadness "is a very functional emotion, " Levenson says.

Marriages get in trouble when the couple's situation or relationship changes and the partners can't adapt, Levenson said.

Gottman and Levenson suggest that couples therapists should thus focus on helping gay men learn to repair.

And it's plausible that overall, a person can be very happy and at the same time have a strong sadness response, Levenson says.

Levenson and Gross, now a professor at Stanford, ended up evaluating more than 250 films and film clips.

Most divorces occur early in marriage, Levenson said.

Divorces in this phase of life are often marked by coldness and emotional withdrawal, according to Gottman and Levenson's 2000 study.

"Everybody thinks it's easy, " Levenson says.

Jay Levenson: Yes, I think that Chinese contemporary artists have very deep understanding of Chinese traditional art.

"A lot of couples rediscover each other, " Levenson said.