This is an update to a similar post that went up through 2009, now including the past two years. Among the 10 highest-grossing movies releas...

My hunch is that it was sometime in the early-mid 1990s, during the shift in the entire zeitgeist. Halloween changed from a carnival holiday...

I might write this up in broader terms later with pointers to some social psychology studies, but I just got back from a long series of fami...

When people see their world getting more dangerous, they feel a stronger impulse to seek out and provide mutual aid, specifically in a face-...

In a recent podcast on sex differences, psychologist Roy Baumeister mentions that men and women feel lonely for different reasons. Men feel...

It remains an unsolved mystery what possessed men to wear such short shorts during the '60s through the '80s, so let's take a cr...

Loneliness is a subjective feeling that your actual level of social interaction isn't meeting your desired level. So, you feel more lone...

One of the more striking signs of how disconnected people are today, especially in the boy-girl context, is the hover hand (click for endle...

After John Lennon was shot, the other former Beatles released two memorial songs, "All Those Years Ago" and "Here Today"...