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Misery may really love company, study suggests
MSNBC: Does misery really love company? An intriguing new study suggests that may be the case. Researchers who study how people’s sense of well-being varies from place to place decided to compare their findings with
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The Yin and Yang of Emotional Intelligence
It’s hard to believe it, but Princess Diana and Charles Manson have something in common: they’re both emotionally intelligent. They are good at identifying and regulating their own and others’ emotions. Although people often associate
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What Makes a Face Appealing to the Opposite Sex?
Bloomberg: While it may be true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, a new computer model helps reveal what’s behind peoples’ ideas of facial attractiveness. Many studies have concluded that people are
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I think it’s time we broke for lunch…
The Economist: AROUND the world, courthouses are adorned with a statue of a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales and a sword: Justice personified. Her sword stands for the power of the court, her
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A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics
The New York Times: A couple of years ago, as his fellow psychologists debated whether narcissism was increasing, Nathan DeWall heard Rivers Cuomo singing to a familiar 19th-century melody. Mr. Cuomo, the lead singer and
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The flip side of dietary supplement use
The Washington Post: You know those people who take a million dietary supplements a day and act kind of healthier-than-thou about it? A study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a
