Virtual Herd Mentality

An ASU prof is developing a 3-D computer model that
will predict and simulate the behavior of
crowds under all different sorts of circumstances
(evacuations, sports victories, etc.)

Older Moms Are Happier Than Younger Moms

Women who have children later in life are happier once they hit mid-life than those who have children at a young age, a new study found.


People with high testosterone levels memorized a task better when they saw an image of an angry face flash on a screen after the task was presented, than when they saw a neutral face or no face, suggesting the angry face acted as a reward, a study found.


Anxious people might have a different anatomy in a small area of the brain, a Spanish study found.

Night Owls: They Might Be Mutants

Night owls might have a genetic mutation (I prefer the word “variation”, thank you) that extends their circadian rhythm to 27 hours instead of 24, Science reports.

Never Multi-Task Before Noon

The hardest time to multitask is in the morning, the Association of Psychological Science reports.

Breastfeeding can help new moms stave off depression, a new study says.

Women with recurrent depression may be able to prevent future depressive episodes by going to therapy once a month, an American Journal of Psychiatry study says.

Teens who watch a lot of T.V. may have a higher risk for attention and learning problems, and may be less likely to go to college, a new study says.

Help others and be happy

The happiest workers are those who have jobs that involve helping others, a University of Chicago study found. Happiest are clergy, firefighters and physical therapists; least happy are roofers and waiters.


It’s easier to make big-picture realizations, and to draw connections between bits of seemingly disparate new information, if one sleeps a bit first, new research suggests.


After reviewing a bunch of studies, the FDA decided that the risk of suicide among people aged 18-24 in the first couple months of starting an antidepressant is high enough that all drug manufacturers should put suicide warnings on their label.

Smoke pot? Go nuts.

Smoking pot can bring on hallucinations, paranoid delusions and other temporary psychotic symptoms, according to a new study reported by AP. The drug also worsens the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenics.


Cognitive therapy works just as well as anti-depressants, at least on patients for whom an initial round of medication failed, a new study found.

The sexiest body part

You might think that men would be more likely to ogle the genitals, and women the faces, of people in sex photos. But the opposite is true, an Emory University study found.