If you look for love on Tinder, the person you are least likely to fancy is yourself, new research suggests.

MOST games have rules, but few have laws. In fact, the only law gamers usually pay any attention to is that of Gordon Moore, who observed that the rate of internet trolls tends to double every two years (or maybe it was the number of transistors on a circuit). Gaming has traditionally been about winning or losing, not about law and order.

Psychologists have confirmed that playing violent video games is linked to aggressive and callous behaviour.

Psychologists have confirmed that playing violent video games is linked to aggressive and callous behaviour.

New research has found that over half of all teenagers who talked on the phone while driving were talking to a parent. Fewer than half were talking to a friend.

CHILD beauty pageants aren’t new — they started in the 1920s when an enterprising hotel owner in Atlantic City created a ‘Most Beautiful Child’ event to boost tourism.

A SET of new studies has revealed both the good and bad psychological effects of constant Facebooking.

SOMEWHERE in the last few days, someone pressed the optimism button.

A GENERATION ago they stood up for the highest principles of fairness, courage and decency.

I WOULD like to thank Dr Sandra McAvoy (Letters, December 2) for bringing the August 2008 report by the American Psychological Association (APA) to my attention.

JAMES McGrath (‘Women not misled on abortion trauma’, Letters, November 24) may have missed the August 2008 publication of the most comprehensive examination yet undertaken in relation to the psychological impacts of abortion: the American Psychological Association’s two-year evaluation of studies published in peer-reviewed journals since 1989.

AN extreme form of shyness that mainly affects males can lead to violence and mass murder, psychologists claim.

WE have let the Playboy bunny image come off the top shelf and into our children’s wardrobes.

“PORNOGRAPHY is the crack cocaine of sex addiction.”

STRESS is not always bad for you, a study claims.

Watching violence on television can encourage a child to act more aggressively even 15 years later, according to one of the few TV violence studies to follow children into adulthood.