"Tagging works because it strikes a balance between the individual and social. It serves the individual motive of remembering, and forms a ad-hoc social groups around it."
Women who have an elective legal abortion do not experience depression or long term psychological distress afterward, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland (Contraception 2008;78:436-50, (doi:10:1016/j.contraception.2008.07.005). They reviewed the best 21 studies published in the past 20 years, involving thousands of women.
Previous research had found that the prefrontal cortex, the brain region behind the forehead, tends to lose volume with age, and that part of this region helps sustain quality sleep, which is critical to consolidating new memories. But the new experiment, led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, is the first to directly link structural changes with sleep-related memory problems.
Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of ten books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations.
On September 14, 1953, Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey published the second of his controversially discussed and provoking reports entitled 'Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female'. Kinsey's work has profoundly influenced social and cultural values in the United States and many other countries.
The American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychologists in the United States. APA educates the public about behavioral science, psychology, and mental health; promotes psychological science and practice; fosters the education and training of psychological scientists, practitioners and educators; advocates for psychological knowledge and practice to inform public policy; and champions the application of psychology to promote human rights, health, well-being and dignity.
An AOL researcher inadverntly released a database of 21 million search queries to the Web. It's been snagged and is providing a valuable trove of sociological search behavior ... and potential privacy intrusion if the ID numbers are ever associated with u
"It’s a bleak new world that has such virtual girlfriends in it. "
Chatbots by major influencers like Amouranth and Caryn Marjorie let fans pay by the minute for virtual interactions – here, an expert on parasocial relationships walks us through the risks.
Dr David Giles, who specialises in media psychology at the University of Winchester [on parasocial relatioships]. “Typically these are between media figures and members of the audience. The media user knows the media figure intimately, but s/he doesn’t exist for them (other than as part of a homogeneous ‘audience’).”
To some extent, social media has complicated this definition, since audiences have more access to media figures, and can talk back to them by leaving Instagram comments or typing in a Twitch chat. “I’ve always argued that we should understand relationships as existing on a spectrum, in which ‘social’ and ‘parasocial’ are the endpoints,” Giles adds. “So a relationship can be ‘partly parasocial’ – like many with vloggers, influencers etc. Fully parasocial would be something like a relationship with a fictional figure (who has never existed) or a dead human (like Elvis).”
I will not believe my son is disordered. What is impaired and disordered is a society where, in order to gain some level of understanding and acceptance of differences, a child has to be considered abnormal.
Proposes several steps on how to recognize and solve emotional problems. How to overcome perfectionism; Solution for highly judgmental attitude; Importance of learning from the mistakes committed; How to develop optimism. By Arnold A. Lazarus | Psychology Today
Andreas Wimmer. Ihr Partner rund um Onlineberatung Eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung von Onlineberatungs- oder Betreuungsprojekten zeigt sich erst nach Ablauf der Pilotphase. Die wirtschaftliche oder auch die wissenschafltiche Nachhaltigkeit eines Projektes is
An ex nice guy gets even with his ghosts by trashing the girls who now ask:"What happened to all the nice guy".
Quite funny, and not without some grain of truth.
Worth reading.
Intuition is not some magical and mysterious property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision-makers in our everyday life.
Brain scientists have succeeded in fooling people into thinking they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy. The out-of-body experience - which is surprisingly easy to induce - will help researchers to understand how the human brain constructs a sense of physical self. The research may also lead to practical applications such as more intuitive remote control of robots, treatments for phantom limb pain in amputee patients and possible treatments for anorexia.
Aurelius meditated that, “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Aurelius meditated that, “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Talks on: Black Dogs and Bengal Tigers: Why a Diagnosis of Depression May be Bad for Your Mental Health; Why There Will Never Be a Convincing Theory of Schizophrenia; Keeping in Time With Your Body Clock; A Clone of Your Own; Exploring Our Universe