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Alex/Flickr Our Roommates, Ourselves
How the slob you were paired with freshman year will influence your figure, your mental health, and other casualties of college
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Jayanta Dey / Reuters Pretending to Understand What Babies Say Can Make Them Smarter
New research suggests it’s how parents talk to their infants, not just how often, that makes a difference for language development.
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A Health Blog/Flickr Changing Memories to Treat PTSD
A controversial area of brain research suggests it may be possible—but is it ethical?
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Seattle Municipal Archives/Flickr The Historical Precursor to ADHD
From the 19th-century "morbid defect of moral control" to the modern understanding of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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Keoni Cabral/Flickr Those Who Know They're Dreaming Tend to Be Savvier When Awake
The cognitive benefits of self-awareness during sleep
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Elvert Barnes/Flickr Where the Police Are Part of Mental-Health Care
In San Antonio, law enforcement, courts, and medical clinics are working together to treat, rather than jail, people with psychological problems.
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Phil Noble / Reuters What an Introvert Sounds Like
The World Well-Being Project uses Facebook updates to correlate language with personality traits.
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Sukharevskyy Dmytro (nevodka)/Shutterstock/The Atlantic The Psychology of Oversharing Facebook Couples
New research looks at who, exactly, keeps posting those public declarations of love on your newsfeed.
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Michael Button/Flickr The Beauty-Happiness Connection
Looking at lovely things—and people—can improve quality of life
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Yuriko Nakao / Reuters Homelessness and the Impossibility of a Good Night's Sleep
For people living on the streets or in shelters, sleep deprivation can lead to a host of other problems.
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Don McCullough/Flickr Predicting PTSD
New research suggests that it may be possible to identify who's more likely to have negative lasting effects from trauma—and to stop the symptoms before they start.
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Steve Garner/Flickr Running With Multiple Sclerosis
For some patients, the disease is defined by its unpredictability. In the middle of a race, one runner confronts what she doesn't know.
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Marshall et al., Journal of Transport and Health Do We Look Fat in These Suburbs?
People in dense cities are thinner and have healthier hearts than people in sprawling subdivisions. New research says the secret is in the patterns of the streets.
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Sadie Hernandez/Flickr Americans Are Getting Worse at Taking Sleeping Pills
The number of emergency-room visits related to prescription sleep aids has doubled in recent years, according to a new study.
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Alex Trautwig/Getty This Is Your Brain on Fish
Thicker, stronger, and more resilient. Once a week is all it takes, new research says.
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Jan Ramroth/Flickr The Trouble With Medicine's Metaphors
Using military terms like "battle" and "fighter" to help patients conceptualize their illness can sometimes harm more than it helps.
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Mario Anzuoni/Reuters An Equation That Predicts Happiness
Researchers say the most important variable is your expectations.
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Vivian Wagner Littering and Following the Crowd
Why it's so tempting to throw trash on the ground, and how environmentalists are using psychology to change that
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Gabriela Rubal/Flickr When Summer Is Depressing
Seasonal affective disorder can also strike in warm-weather months.
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Village9991/Flickr What People Think of You Based on Your Photo
A new study pinpoints the facial features that contribute to others' snap judgments.
