In The News: Department of Psychology

Shoeleather Magazine

The men were lined up for X3 Expo, the largest adult content convention in the world. The two-day event features hundreds of adult content creators ready to meet and greet their fans, sex toy stands, and live screenings of adult films.

Las Vegas Sun

In 2018, after 23 years as a Navy SEAL, Jon Dalton retired and turned his attention to a new struggle: living with depression and anxiety.

Las Vegas Sun

In 2018, after 23 years as a Navy SEAL, Jon Dalton retired and turned his attention to a new struggle: living with depression and anxiety.

Guardian

A cottage industry of women are selling courses aligned with a conservative movement that claims feminism is the source of women’s discontent

Kleine Zeitung

For the first time, a study has examined the "Tradwife" trend. Instead of the expected "benevolent paternalism," the study leaders encountered enormous devaluation of women.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

For decades, the federal government considered marijuana as dangerous a drug as heroin. That changed Thursday when the acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanchard signed an order reclassifying state-licensed cannabis products from schedule I to a far less regulated schedule III. The order does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law, but it does ease some barriers to cannabis research. And that came as very good news for a pair of UNLV scientists.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

For decades, the federal government considered marijuana as dangerous a drug as heroin. That changed Thursday when the acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanchard signed an order reclassifying state-licensed cannabis products from schedule I to a far less regulated schedule III. The order does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law, but it does ease some barriers to cannabis research. And that came as very good news for a pair of UNLV scientists.

PsyPost

Understanding how people develop habits around viewing adult content can help identify potential psychological risks later in life. Researchers identified three distinct patterns of how adults start viewing sexually explicit material, revealing that establishing a regular habit at a young age is linked to higher rates of mental health struggles. The findings were published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.

Financial Times

Absenteeism that rose dramatically during Covid-19 has failed to return to pre-pandemic levels. The costs are mounting

Telegraph

Women thrive on the liberty, autonomy and freedom to make their own way denied them by this regressive movement

Futurism

The tradwife aesthetic, as it’s sold to women, is easy enough to understand. In our world of social media addiction and dead-end wage labor, it can be tempting to find comfort in the sourdough fantasy of post-war soda ads: a retreat to a simpler, if not archaic, time in recent history.

Hysteria Podcast

In this episode, Erin and Alyssa talk about Trump’s nuclear war threats, Congressman Tony Gonzales sex pesting, again, and ICE’s pattern of lies. Then they dissect Pam Bondi’s ousting, and why Republicans’ gaggle of trad wives can’t escape the patriarchal system they champion.