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		<title>Relation between violent computer games and aggressiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, according to another group these games might promote aggression or violence not within the gaming environment but outside it. They spent countless hours on playing online games and also on studying other gamers while playing difficult games. They stated that the circumstances that gamers undergo require refined and well-synchronized cooperation. The gamer needs to be strategically and theoretically well informed along with having good timing because insensible and aggressive gamers cannot perform well in such games.
<p>Thus the relation between games and violence is based on the concept of using knowledge of one situation in a totally different one through the process of transfer, which is a primary point of research in education system. It is difficult to say that how a learning situation might be planned to make it useful in real life. However, as far as the debate on gaming and violence<b> </b>is considered, it is based on an imaginary analysis rather than a real problem.</p>
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		<title>Nasty Acts Seen On-Screen and In the Media Are Affecting the Brains</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Affect Brains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nasty Acts On-Screen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p><a href="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/kid-watching-tv.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="kid watching tv" border="0" alt="kid watching tv" src="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/kid-watching-tv_thumb.jpg" width="500" height="333"></a>The groups of researches have named their study as “Frenemies, Fraitors, and Mean-em-aitors”: Priming effects of viewing physical and relational aggression in the media on women,&#8221; and has recently revealed it to all in the journal Aggressive Behavior. They conducted this study on 250 college women by making them to watch three different video clips of aggressive behavior. The three video clips comprised of, first- physical aggression through a gun and knife fight leading to a murder, second-relational aggression showing girls stealing boyfriends, bitching and kicking one out of the social circle and the third- a scary scene with heartrending horrible acts.<a href="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/girl-watching-tv-large.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="" border="0" alt="" src="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/girl-watching-tv-large_thumb.jpg" width="336" height="230"></a>
<p>The study proved that the aggression seen on the screen makes the viewers accept it to a bit and these plays a key role in changing the thought process of the person. Once the thought process changes the act of handling a matter too changes and the effect thus, is bad. This group of four professors comprised of Douglas Gentile- professor of Psychology at Iowa University, Sarah Coyne and David Nelson- researchers in Brigham Young University&#8217;s School of Family Life and Jennifer Ruh Linder- professor of psychology at Linfield College (Ore.).</p>
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		<title>Talk to strangers for more fun and care!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking up to strangers and striking up conversation is much more fun than talking to same old boring friends. It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>Walking up to strangers and striking up conversation is much more fun than talking to same old boring friends. It&#8217;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.</p>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>Link between an Old Man&#8217;s Wisdom and a Baby&#8217;s Smile</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="SuperStock_1626R-12087" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="350" alt="SuperStock_1626R-12087" src="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/SuperStock_1626R12087.jpg" width="254" border="0"> 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 <u></u><u></u>Roy<u></u><u></u> 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.
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<p><u></u><u></u>Roy<u></u><u></u> 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.</p>
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<p><u></u><u></u>Roy<u></u><u></u> 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.</p>
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		<title>How Mothers Shape Man&#8217;s Dating and Marriage Perspective?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="seung-chung-diane-farr" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="350" alt="seung-chung-diane-farr" src="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/seungchungdianefarr.jpg" width="350" border="0"> 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.
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>The research was conducted in <u></u><u></u>Italy<u></u><u></u> 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.</p>
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		<title>How to avoid talking like a racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>Ways to cope with intense emotions for a healthy mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 05:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="boderline-personality-disorder" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="265" alt="boderline-personality-disorder" src="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/boderlinepersonalitydisorder.jpg" width="318" border="0"> 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.
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.
<p>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.
<p>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.&nbsp; </p>
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		<title>To recover from the toughest hurdles of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="sun-in-hands" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="245" alt="sun-in-hands" src="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/suninhands.jpg" width="370" border="0"> 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.
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.
<p>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&#8217;t give up and trust God. </p>
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		<title>Happiness augments health and enhances life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="110301122156-large" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="317" alt="110301122156-large" src="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/110301122156large.jpg" width="450" border="0"> 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.
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.
<p>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.
<p>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. </p>
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		<title>Smokers Breed Smokers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cleo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="82e196cfa4793505dc7dbe0e87fc_grande" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="350" alt="82e196cfa4793505dc7dbe0e87fc_grande" src="http://psyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/82e196cfa4793505dc7dbe0e87fc_grande.jpg" width="450" border="0"> 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.
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.
<p>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.
<p>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. </p>
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