Five Studies

Neuroscience helped debunk the superpredator myth—and sway the Supreme Court. Why the movement to overhaul juvenile sentencing is picking up steam.

• By Ben DeJarnette

Smiling your way to happiness is indeed possible—but the emotional labor economy is about as unfair as the rest of the economy.

• By Angela Chen

Research suggests that the now-FDA-approved female libido-booster is—at least in part—a pharmaceutical ploy.

• By Anne Skomorowsky

The disease model of addiction offers addicts several ways forward—including getting drunk to beat alcoholism.

• By Jordan Rosenfeld

What can we do to help kids who are the first in their families to go to college—or who face extra burdens because of their race, class, or religion?

• By Livia Gershon

Bernie Sanders says that billionaires have “psychiatric issues.” He’s not entirely incorrect.

• By Livia Gershon

The obvious answers aren't necessarily the most accurate. Here, five studies help clear up the gender disparity in politics.

• By Nancy L. Cohen

Some people suspect the troubles of middle school are a matter of age. Middle schoolers, they think, are simply too moody, pimply, and cliquish to be easily educable. But these five studies might convince you otherwise.

• By Dana Goldstein

Five studies you should read before you deploy a trigger warning.

• By Richard J. McNally

You can be the next Arthur Chu.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Gay, straight, single, divorced: Five studies that prove that the who of family matters a lot less than the how when it comes to raising happy, healthy kids.

• By Michael Fitzgerald

The whole idea of a democracy is that the majority is generally supposed to get its way. But time and again, it’s not the majority but a potent minority that drives—or prevents—progress.

• By Seth Masket

Recent and ongoing research on our privacy paradoxes.

• By Chris Berdik

Do we need to be scaring pregnant women so much?

• By Dorothy Fortenberry

Seminal research that changed how we think about homosexuality—one step at a time, over the past century.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The causes and consequences of obesity are settled science, right? Wrong.

• By Daniel Engber