Relation between violent computer games and aggressiveness

By Aditi | April 17, 2012 9:53 pm |
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The debate about the likely connection between violent computer games and aggressiveness is quite long. However, recently, a group of research scholars presented a new study showing that to succeed in these violent games, the important requirement is cooperation. Thereby, these researchers says that gamers learn to cooperate as well as understand other things like complex circumstances, relationships, skill improvement and so on via these games.

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Nasty Acts Seen On-Screen and In the Media Are Affecting the Brains

By Aditi | April 3, 2012 1:59 am |
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The sudden rise of aggression and physical violence in the news as seen in the media has been found to drive the viewers of both adult and young age to indulge in violence. In fact, apart from the true incidents taking place in different parts of the world and its exposure through the media, the on-screen acts of violation and extortion too is fueling up people to act likewise and handle a situation as shown on the shows. A study done by a team of four professors at Iowa State University psychology department have come to this point that the onscreen relational acts that include gossip, bullying both physically and mentally and the act of social exclusions can also prime the brain for such harmful acts.

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Talk to strangers for more fun and care!

By Aditi | January 18, 2012 12:06 am |
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Walking up to strangers and striking up conversation is much more fun than talking to same old boring friends. It’s fun, interesting, and risky. And it will bring more spice to your life. You’ll meet new people every day and you’ll experience firsthand the joy of living dangerously. If you make the effort despite your fears about talking to strangers, you might fortuitously have the time of your life.

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Link between an Old Man’s Wisdom and a Baby’s Smile

By Aditi | September 27, 2011 12:19 am |
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SuperStock_1626R-12087 Have you ever wondered that there could be a link between an old man’s wisdom and a baby’s smile? A 90 year old man, named Roy can still play tennis and is grateful that he is able to swing a tennis racquet. This is not all, he also takes singing lessons and learns to play a piano. Meeting this man and knowing him closely, you will realize that he is just like a 10 year old boy.

Roy in spite, of his old age is full of childish enthusiasm. In fact, for this old man, wisdom of life is distilled in just one word, called gratitude. He appreciates a new mother who is full of satisfaction seeing her baby and is exhausted at the same time taking care of the baby and the house. This old man expresses his gratitude to his gone by years and a small baby that graces him with a smile at the time of a new birth.

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How Mothers Shape Man’s Dating and Marriage Perspective?

By Aditi | September 19, 2011 11:57 pm |
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seung-chung-diane-farr Whether you agree or not, mothers play an important role in shaping a man’s dating and marriage perspective. Yes, it is a fact now that mothers have a great influence in shaping the roles of men in relationships. It has been found that a mother’s nurturing nature influences the way a man takes up his relationships related to love.

This research was conducted for a decade in which men-children relationship and influence was analyzed. Since, childhood, mothers behavior leaves an ever lasting impression on their sons. As a result, when they grow up, they look for a mommy cook in their wife and also urge for breast milk in many cases even in adulthood.

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How to avoid talking like a racist

By Aditi | June 15, 2011 3:38 am |
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It has been observed that many people unknowingly talk like a racist that leaves a bad impression on the listeners. So, we thought of sharing with you some tips to avoid talking like a racist.

If you are not aware then let us tell you that racism exists on individual and also at the institutional levels. On the individual level, racism involves negative attitudes and people’s beliefs holding about specific races. On the institutional level, patterns like de facto school segregation hire members of minority groups.

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Ways to cope with intense emotions for a healthy mind

By Aditi | May 14, 2011 12:31 am |
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boderline-personality-disorder Coping with emotions and controlling feelings is very important for managing a healthy mind and body. At times our feelings becomes so powerful, we seem to have no control on them. But if we don’t control our emotions, they might overpower us and control our behavior and actions. Emotions are common to every human being. However, some people feel them intensely.

Here we are talking about normal and soft emotional lability, which is commonly experienced by most of us. For example, mood swings, exaggerated feelings, becoming upset, crying for meager reasons, etc. People generally learn to cope with such feelings with maturity and experience.

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To recover from the toughest hurdles of life

By Aditi | March 24, 2011 1:09 am |
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sun-in-hands It has been over 6 years since hurricane Katrina hit different areas of North America damaging innumerable life and property. Despite warning many people stick to not leaving their own houses and homeland. Some of them decided to leave the place at the last moment. However, these people lost almost everything in the hurricane.

The destruction cost life, property, wealth as well as mantle state of people who were involved. There were no food, no accommodation, no medicine and no work for people for so many days. They became devastated with the losses, but it was only the faith and hope for a better future that kept people alive.

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Happiness augments health and enhances life

By Aditi | March 5, 2011 12:50 am |
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110301122156-large An evaluation of studies being done by researchers on both human and animals as subjects has confirmed that happy soul’s life longer and experience better health than their unhappy counterparts.

The study published in a leading periodical on Applied Psychology reviews the link between happiness to health and its results. After detailed experiment, the author reviewed that health condition of people is affected by natural events.

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Smokers Breed Smokers

By Aditi | February 12, 2011 2:30 am |
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82e196cfa4793505dc7dbe0e87fc_grande A new study has stated that a smoker’s brain gets activated and the urge to smoking increases when they see actors smoking on screen while watching movies. This has been interpreted by the studying the hand movement of smokers. As per the study, smokers while watching people smoking on screen, behave as if they too are about to light a cigarette.

A chain smoker under the influence of regular smoking repeats the same hand movement a number of times every day. The researchers in the study actually wanted to see if watching someone smoke in movies can actually trigger this routine hand movement of a smoker. They wanted to determine if the human brain could control their habitual gesture.

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