Alec Baldwin never actually left the United States, even though he said he would if George W. Bush won in 2004.   So people make silly threats about politics but do political outcomes have any effect on more serious issues, like suicide?

Suicide risk factors are something sociologists love to think about and a new longitudinal study published in Social Science Quarterly says it analyzed suicide rates at a state level from 1981-2005 and determined that presidential election outcomes directly influence suicide rates among voters. 

Belief: Girls tend to hang out in smaller, more intimate groups than boys.

Not really.   At least not by the time children reach the eighth grade, says a new Journal of Social and Personal Relationships article.

Jennifer Watling Neal, assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University, says her study is one of the first to look at how girls' and boys' peer networks develop across grades.   Because children's peer-group structure can promote or mitigate negative behaviors like bullying and positive behaviors like helping others, Neal said it's important for researchers to have a better picture of what these groups look like.

If you watched Comedy Central last night, you may have seen a celebrity roast of David Hasselhoff and some research today is another reminder of "Knight Rider".

A new article concludes that early intervention for young people with delinquency problems may help prevent the development of crime, alcoholism and risky sex behaviors, especially among those with low incomes. 

The study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry set out to examine the influence of delinquency behavior in late childhood development.   The adolescent and young adults (800 people, ages 10 to 24, from low- and middle-income backgrounds) completed self-report assessments - so calibrate that accordingly - which included questions on delinquent involvement, alcohol use, and sexual activity in late childhood; delinquency and alcohol use in adolescence; and crime, AUDs, and risky sex in early adulthood.

An argument in the business world is how happy you can make employees while still maintaining a job standard.   

JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater cursed out a passenger, grabbed two beers and exited through the plane's emergency exit earlier this week, and a new report in Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests his attitude may be a sign of trouble for JetBlue and other large companies.  It may also be a sign of trouble just for airlines, where flight attendants seem to think passengers exist to give them a reason to collect a paycheck.  Or it may mean nothing.

A long-standing argument for public schools over home-schooling and more kids versus one is the social aspect.  Honestly, sending kids to school so they can learn to feel bad about their clothing is not that great, despite well-funded union public relations campaigns to that effect.   

And being an only child is not so bad either, new research suggests.  A study of more than 13,000 middle and high school students across the country found that 'only children' were selected as friends by their schoolmates just as often as were peers who grew up with brothers and sisters.