Prison Video Games Played By Depressed :-( Moms

• Where you live affects how you read people, a new study found. In Japan, where emotional control is valued, focus is placed on the eyes to interpret emotion, while in the U.S., where emotion is expressed more openly, the focus is on the mouth. That may be why the U.S. emoticons for happy : - ) and sad : - ( are different in Japan: (^_^) and (;_;)

• Depressed moms are more likely to give birth prematurely, because they have higher levels of a stress hormone that initiates birth, a UK study found.

• Violent video games do indeed make kids more aggressive and hostile, according to Iowa State researchers who did three studies and wrote a book on the subject.

• The NY Times has an interview with Philip Zombardo, the guy who designed the Stanford Prison Experiment, showing just how nasty people can get when put in bad situations.