If you thought Facebook users were like World of Warcraft players, stuck behind their PCs and rarely seeing the sunshine, soap or even a supermarket, you might be surprised to discover that Facebook leads to more real life experiences - and bad online experiences, too.

Recent research has confirmed what we generally assumed.  Young men will take risks to impress a pretty girl.

According to a February 2010 study in the journal Psychological Science, people are happier when they have serious and meaningful conversations rather than simple, trivial talk about the weather, and other such conversations without much substance and content.

According to U.S./Netherlands research, powerful and influential people often times publicly profess to be moral and virtuous but sometimes don't take the high road to morality in their actual deeds and actions. They do a lot of lying, cheating, and stealing while telling others not to lie, cheat, and steal.

According to a U.S. study performed over ten years and written up in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, loneliness can be spread from person to person—it's contagious!

According to research performed by researchers at the University of Toronto, people in positions of authority at work are at increased health risks for psychological and physical problems due to the stresses of being the boss.

U.K. psychologists discovered through their scientific study that the use of offensive language, or cursing, helps to withstand the perception of pain. No, “darn it” is not offensive enough to stop the pain!

A U.S. study has shown that people who think their memories will get worse as they age are more likely to, indeed, be more forgetful when compared to people who don’t think their memory will worsen with age. So, don’t forget to think good memory thoughts!

A U.S. study has found that the people who smile the biggest in photographs when they are young are more likely to stay married later in life. The frowners were more likely to divorce.

As suspected by any person married with children, but until now not detailed in a long-term study, U.S. researchers find that children increase stress on marriages. In fact, dissatisfaction plummets within the first year of the first baby!