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Study: People Who Come Out of the Closet Are Happier and Healthier
A 15-year-old girl came out to her parents this week, by baking them a cake. According to new research, she's now less likely to be depressed, cynical, stressed, or anxious.
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Study: If We Could Fly, We Would All Be Superheroes
People who went through a virtual reality flying simulation emerged ready to save lives.
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Study: Erections Tell Us About Our Hearts
Men with severe erectile dysfunction -- even with no personal history of cardiovascular disease -- had 8 times the risk of heart failure.
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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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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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Study: Lightning May Trigger Headaches
Stormy weather seems to be a bad omen for the migraine-prone.
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Study: People 'Highly' Enjoy Sex, Condom or No
Remember that time you didn't use a condom, and thought it was way better? You were wrong.
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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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Study: Don't Be Lonely, It's Bad for You
Loneliness is associated with weaker immune systems, greater sensitivity to physical pain, and other health measures that imply that at some point even our own bodies reject us.
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Study: Kids Who Like 'Unconventional Music' More Likely to Become Delinquent
Today's Bieber fans are tomorrow's upstanding citizens.
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Study: Some People Have Armpits That Never Smell; Most Still Use Deodorant
Powder-fresh underarms are a cultural construct, man.
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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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Study: 30% of 'At-Risk' Teen Girls Get Together With Strangers They Met Online
Unrestrained online behavior leads to real world risks.
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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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Study: For Peanut Allergies, Peanut Therapy
Some people just need to be eased into it.
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Study: Al Roker's Sad Incontinence Story Checks Out
Fecal incontinence is common after bariatric surgery. Don't make fun.
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Study: Change Your Perceived Gender by Pronouncing S's Differently
The social and biological factors that affect a voice's gender
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Study: Use Food to Make New Friends, Say Bonobos
They are nicer to strangers than their own friends and family.
