In The News: Department of Psychology

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

The thought of another mass tragedy affecting Las Vegas is almost too much to bear, but a masked gunman scare at a local mall renewed fears it could happen again.

Study International

Your good-looking lab partner at university is more likely to think the world is fair than your less genetically-blessed peers, a new study has found.

PSY Post

Beautiful people tend to believe that life is fundamentally fair and just, according to new research conducted with college students.

ZME Science

The study analyzed an unlikely connection between attractiveness and the belief in a just world, finding a strong correlation between the two.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Stacie Armentrout felt nauseated watching surveillance video of Stephen Paddock roaming Mandalay Bay in the days before the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip.

Vegas Seven

Gabriel Allred and Michael Wagner are poised to disrupt the cannabis market in a major way. The co-founders of Tokes Platform, a cryptocurrency company, are leveraging their diverse educational and professional backgrounds to not only revolutionize the way the cannabis industry banks and takes payment from consumers, but how the industry tracks the plant from seed to sale.

Las Vegas Review Journal

News reports of yet another mass killing, this time in Florida, have brought renewed sorrow and stress to Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Weekly

Modern life is crazy stressful. It often feels like you’re trapped inside a 24-hour barrage of bad news, political hijinks and social media-induced envy. There may be no way to fix the world outside your front door, but the world inside can be a haven of your own creation. Here’s how.

Xinhua

Mandalay Bay hotel of Las Vegas will eliminate its 32nd floor by the end of this week, from where gunman Stephen Paddock rained bullets on ground in October last year, killing 58 and wounding more than 500 others.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The 32nd floor at Mandalay Bay, strongly associated with the Oct. 1 shooting, is going away.

International Business Times

While many of marriage's fundamental elements have evolved over the years – the freedom to separate, the legalisation of same-sex marriage in numerous countries and prenuptial agreements –one thing that has been slow to evolve is the changing of surnames in heterosexual unions. But things are beginning to change, with a number of men deciding to take on their wives' surnames in some form.

BBC

These days many women keep their own name when they marry, and couples are increasingly opting for a double-barrelled or merged name. But men who take their wife's surname are still quite rare. Kirstie Brewer spoke to three.