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.

Well chatting with your friend is the safest way as you are relaxed and comfortable. Talking to a stranger is more challenging. Effort is needed for talking to a stranger, which is known as “impression management” in psychology. But recent surveys indicate some positive effects as a result of the effort that you put while talking to strangers.

Well according to a research carried out there were participants interacting with their partner whom they were in long term relationship and same participants interacting with opposite sex strangers. It was found that participants had more fun talking to the strangers than when they talked to their partners. Further the participants were told to make an effort with their partners and the result improved. Hence it was proved that making an effort makes a difference.

Well the above research indicates that we always take for granted our loved ones and also talking to strangers gives us more pleasure as flying your own kite makes everybody feel good.

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.

Roy also puts forward his thought that even in old age, one can hang around in tough times with the enthusiasm of a young kid. He can drink a toast like a kid and be happy in different situations.

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.

The research was conducted in Italy and a large percentage of adult males were found to be living at home before marriage. The result that came out was that men in majority look for an extension of their mother in their life partner after marriage and they hate when their spouse is different from their mother. They like to see their spouse doing works that they have seen their mother doing such as washing, ironing, steaming, folding and cooking.

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.

Considered as subtle, racist attitude is now accepted everywhere. So, it is important to be humble to solve your purpose. To avoid the racism behavior, you need first to examine your language that includes using derogatory terms for members of a particular race. On the other hand, you need to maintain stereotypes and consider the economic attributes of a person.

You also need to consider the social problems of an individual’ race instead of the institutionalized racism. So, now we assume that you have hold of some ideas to avoid talking like a racist.

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.

But sometimes, even adults are prone to such feelings that are really difficult to manage, which affects their actions. These actions in the form of bad comments, remarks, foul language etc., are due to this kind of intense emotions. These actions can have anyone pay heavily later in life.

There are numerous approaches to coping and controlling emotions. It might to difficult initially, but with practice you can have control over your intense emotions. A few such techniques commonly used by people are meditation, yoga, prayer, use of problem solving methods, to better your communications, exercise and change of environment, amongst others.

Moreover, you can also use age-old methods like counting when in anger, use of humor, and changing the way you think. All these will also help in controlling and coping with intense emotions. 

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.

However, with the course of time, things changed. Now after almost 6 years of the storm, the faith in God and the hope to get things back to normal has really helped people come up and start life afresh. Houses were rebuilt, and life was restored. People are now in a stable environment and God has helped them repair and recreate the things that were lost.

It is quite stimulating to see the control of God and the power of faith in our life. The hurricane was a bad experience but the blessings of God received thereafter overshadowed all the losses for many people. So, those of you who are going through tough time in life must have faith in God and hope for good things coming on your way. No matter what, just don’t give up and trust God.

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.

Eight different types of studies were used for the review, which led to the conclusion that positive feelings and attributes, being happy, and being stress free does contribute to a healthy and long like of people.

Similarly, another study that uses students as subjects say that the pessimistic students or those with more negative thoughts dies young than their friends or colleagues. Another study on Catholic nuns done for a longer period of time specified that those who wrote positive happy notes during their early life outlived those who wrote more negative accounts.

Like human being, studies on animals also show a strong connection between poor health and stress. Although, happiness cannot be the sole reason to prevent diseases. However, being positive and happy definitely contribute for a healthy and long life.

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.

In the course of the study, it has been revealed that seeing this familiar action even in movies can stir up the same responses and the urge to smoke for chain smokers.

During smoking scenes in movies, the brain activity of smokers get more active along with corresponding activity of the hand they use to smoke. The study thereby says that exposure to onscreen smoking in movies can make smokers more likely to smoke. Though use of tobacco in films has decreased in recent years, but there are many movies, which show actors smoking on screen.

This study will help people who are trying hard to overcome the addiction to smoke. This might as well help to reduce the rate of death due to excess smoking in the United States.

To improve performance and to enhance work effectiveness, we must try and do things that augment our work. This will not only boost our performance but will also increase our value to the employer.

Setting focus on your work is very important, at least for some valuable time during the day. This requires complete commitment and effort to offer the kind of productivity expected out of you. At the same time you must know if you are heading towards the right path and doing the right things.

You have to be clear on your job role and responsibilities, which require that you understand the mission and vision of your company, work procedure of the company and proceed accordingly. To know more, you can even speak to your associates, team mates and managers in the company and discuss ways to improve your work.

Moreover, don’t waste too much time on chatting or checking mails. Fix a particular time of the day for such activities so that you spend the rest in quality work. By following such small tips you could have a better option to work smart and grow in your career.

There have been various perspectives attributed to drug abuse and its harmful results. Drug abuse means the over use of certain restricted substances that causes harmful consequences. Amongst several viewpoints related to issue of drug abusiveness, the field of psychology and sociology also puts their different views forward.

As per sociological point of view, the issue of drug abuse is caused by one’s background, their surroundings, upbringing, and their social and cultural conditions. Psychology, on the other hand, thinks that the main influence for drug abuse is the mental state of a person. In fact, the cause can be combination of both these factors.

The social and economical background of people might also act as influence for this habit. Causes like unpleasant incidents in life, social or environmental circumstances, or even the company of friends with whom you stay might push you towards drug abuse.

Psychological, in contrast, says that it is the inner self of a person, which is the real influencer to drug abuse. The environment is not the sole force that drive you towards drug abuse, rather the addiction is so strong and irrepressible that it psychologically drives people towards it.

Again, there are several situations where we see people from similar socioeconomic background differs in drug abusing. Some such people might abuse drugs, whereas there are others who doesn’t. Sociology fails to explain this. Yet again, there are studies that states the reason for drug abuse as the personality or the addictive behavior of people.