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More People Should Carry Balloons Everywhere
Join this man.
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How Smiles Control Us All
And why we're terrible at faking them
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Study: How We Lose Our Virginity Shapes Our Entire Sexual Life
Those who had more positive initiations into sex scored higher for sexual satisfaction and esteem later on, and reported less "sexual depression."
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Is the Lecture Dead?
Medical education isn't just about conveying information as efficiently as possible. A lecture, done right, gets to the heart of why a lesson is worth learning.
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My Day on a Treadmill Desk
The next big thing in not dying?
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Study: If You Multitask Often, You're Impulsive and Bad at Multitasking
People who do it all the time are actually the worst at it.
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How Aggressive Narcissism Explains Lance Armstrong
Armstrong's lying, arrogance, and contempt for others describe a narcissist who feels that his ideal self-image is under siege.
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'He Didn't Seem Crazy': Where Violence Meets Health Care
Philadelphia's mental health interventions aim to prevent random acts of violence and misguided jail time.
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Hyungwon Kang / Reuters Study: A Physically Aggressive Response to Puppies Is 'Completely Normal'
I could just eat you up!
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'Anesthesia Is Really More an Art Than a Science'
Considering the nature of consciousness in the frame of the phenomenon of patients feeling awake during general anesthesia, an Atlantic story was discussed on ABC's World News.
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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters When Trees Die, People Die
The curious connection between an invasive beetle that has destroyed over 100 million trees, and subsequent heart disease and pneumonia in human populations nearby
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Meaning and Media
A behavioral psychologist offered free care to a veteran after reading about his life with PTSD.
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Study: Wanting Things Makes Us Happier Than Having Them
An empirical evaluation of materialism
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Study: Performing Music Gets Us High
Rock stars are prone to substance abuse when the spotlight wears off, and the neurophysiology actually makes sense.
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Violence and Mental Illness in Middletown, Connecticut
A stabbing, a shooting, and an uneasy relationship with the mentally ill haunts a city.
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Study: The New Less-Social Psychology of China's Generation Without Siblings
The new only-child generation grew up to be less trusting, more risk-averse, less competitive, more pessimistic, less conscientious, and it appears, more neurotic.
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Study: A 3 Second Interruption Doubles Your Odds of Messing Up
It's called "contextual jitter" -- in the time it takes to silence your cell phone, you've already lost track of what you were doing.
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Most Journalists Not Actual Psychopaths
A list of the occupations most likely to attract psychopaths consists of interesting observations, but no clinical diagnoses.
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'You're Not Aware That My Finger Is in Your Pocket'
How concerning is it that I want to be a (theatrical) pickpocket?
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'Is Someone Going to Bake Me in a Pie?' The Eeriness of Mother Goose
Illustrations remind us how the classic tales could seem in the minds of the kids to whom we read them
