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1. Study Explores Reasons Behind Alcohol Abuse in Non-Heterosexual Women

   Non-heterosexual women who feel a disconnect between who they are attracted to and how they identify themselves may have a higher risk of alcohol abuse, according to a new study led by Amelia E. Talley, an assistant professor in Texas Tech University's Department of Psychological Sciences.

2. Consumers Increasingly Face Companies’ Creative Smoke and Mirrors, Study Finds

   Heavily marketed as a safer, healthful alternative to smoking, electronic cigarettes are under fire from California health officials who have declared "vaping" a public health threat, hoping to head off the type of deceptive manipulation that tobacco companies succeeded with for decades, according to researchers. 

3. Keep Your Enemies Close? Study Finds Greater Proximity to Opponents Leads to More Polarization

   Encouraging adversaries to have more interpersonal contact to find common ground may work on occasion, but not necessarily in the U.S. Senate, according to new research.

4. Accepting a Job Below One's Skill Level Can Adversely Affect Future Employment Prospects

   Accepting a job below one's skill level can be severely penalizing when applying for future employment because of the perception that someone who does this is less committed or less competent, according to new research from a sociologist at The University of Texas at Austin.

5. Lightness/Darkness of Skin Affects Male Immigrants' Likelihood of Gaining Employment

   Skin color is a significant factor in the probability of employment for male immigrants to the United States, according to a new study by two University of Kansas (KU) researchers.

6. Study: Workplace Flexibility Benefits Employees

   New research released today shows that workers at a Fortune 500 company who participated in a pilot work flexibility program voiced higher levels of job satisfaction and reduced levels of burnout and psychological stress than employees within the same company who did not participate.

   This is the first time a randomized controlled trial has been used to measure the effects of workplace flexibility in a U.S. firm. 

7. "Context is Everything!"

   Sociologist and food critic Joshua Page talks with New York Times food critic about the sociological work of reviewing restaurants.

8. Becoming a Stickup Kid

   Randol Contreras’ drug-robber respondents were not born criminals or torturers, so how did they become "stick-up kids"?

9. Pride and Prejudice and Professionalism

   LGBT educators struggle to balance professionalism and pride in the classroom, splittling, knitting, or quittting, in the words of the authors.

10. Social Justice & the Next Upward Surge for Unions

    Labor unions have been on the decline for sixty years in the U.S., though they raise wages, decrease inequality, and give voice to workers. Can they rise again?