I get lots of notifications about face-related trends and the latest big hit is, “Ozempic face.”

Apparently, it is common for people who take Ozempic and some of the other new rapid weight loss drugs (glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists) to get more cavernous cheeks, drooping skin, and other signs of facial aging…

For today’s FACS Freeze-Frame, I’ll be analyzing this frame grabbed from a video of me recreating the crazed state brought on by the last couple of weeks: the raging pandemic, fire threats in my state of CA and a brief evacuation, ongoing challenges with my elderly mother, capped off by the extended agony of awaiting the results of the presidential election in the USA.

Every once in a while, a long-forgotten research project gets reborn. Such is the case of the project that began with my former colleague at U.C. Davis, social psychologist and relationships researcher, Omri Gillath, and I started chatting about flirting behavior years ago.

Originally published in Psychology Today

As a scientist and educator, I generally stays away from commenting on public figures—especially politicians. Sometimes, however, people make such preposterous claims that I feel compelled to take a look at the video-byte in question. A case in point is a press conference earlier this month at which President Obama announced a new executive action on gun control. It was an emotional speech. He was choked up. He cried. This was an uncharacteristically rich display of emotions from a man who is typically a pillar of composure…