In The News: Department of Psychology
You may have heard about the upcoming Olivia Wilde鈥揹irected thriller, Don鈥檛 Worry Darling, because of its promising reviews. (It will be released September 23, but premiered at the Venice International Film Festival [PDF] earlier this month.) Or it may be on your radar because of the off-camera drama around the cast鈥檚 and crew鈥檚 purported feuds, snubs, bad blood, and affairs of the heart (including a romance between director, Wilde, and star, Harry Styles).
The antidote to doom-scrolling yourself into oblivion? Senior living TikTok. Senior living accounts on TikTok allow people who live in assisted living facilities to share their knowledge, experience, and humor with the world. While it's unclear just how many of these accounts exist, the hashtag #seniorliving has been used 103.6 million times, and the hashtag #seniorlivingcommunity has been used 8.9 million times.

In the last two months Las Vegas has gone through the fear and panic of mass shootings, even though the shootings never happened.

In the last two months Las Vegas has gone through the fear and panic of mass shootings, even though the shootings never happened.
Rules of music composition influence how we all make music, even those unaware such rules exist

The public鈥檚 reaction to Thursday night鈥檚 strip shooting was something experts call 鈥 priming effect. 8 News Now spoke to a 性视界传媒 psychologist about this and how dangerous it can be because of social media.
Many people with depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) benefit from psychedelic drug treatments, clinical trials show. Psychedelic drugs affect thinking, emotion, and perception by binding to and activating the serotonin receptor.
Shadd Dales is joined by career brain researchers and husband-wife team behind Tessellate, a project designed to advance development of mental health psychedelic therapeutics.
Shadd Dales is joined by career brain researchers and husband-wife team behind Tessellate, a project designed to advance development of mental health psychedelic therapeutics.

It could be the plot of a Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy: Boy meets girl. Boy and girl date, fall in love, get engaged 鈥 but, alas, the nuptials are not to be. Boy and girl go their separate ways, each getting married, having children, getting divorced. They remain the 鈥渙ne that got away鈥 to each other. And then, older and wiser, they fall in love again.

On a flight to Las Vegas earlier this month, a Florida family discussed how they planned to react in the unlikely event that they had to flee from an active shooter in a crowded place.

On a flight to Las Vegas earlier this month, a Florida family discussed how they planned to react in the unlikely event that they had to flee from an active shooter in a crowded place.