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The Western cult of happiness is indeed a strange adventure, something like a collective intoxication. In the guise of emancipation, it transforms a high ideal into its opposite. Condemned to joy, we must be happy or lose all standing in society. It is not a question of knowing whether we are more or less happy [...]
It’s official: Sexual objectification of women in music videos isn’t limited to those featuring male stars. A new study by two University of Missouri researchers has found that female artists frequently turn themselves into sex objects in their own videos. “It has been known that music videos featuring male artists often sexually objectify women, but [...]
Where Barbie and similar dolls have long been considered negative role models for young girls, there is now increased debate about the negative impact of male action figures on young boys. Some researchers believe most male action figures, like G.I. Joe, promote a hyper-muscular physique that is associated with supreme masculinity that is in turn [...]
More than 3,500 accounts of New York registered sex offenders have been purged from online video game platforms as part of “Operation: Game Over,” a groundbreaking initiative with participation from Microsoft, Apple, Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Disney Interactive Media Group, Warner Brothers and Sony. The Attorney General’s database sweep is a first-of-its-kind effort to protect [...]
Parents who focus excessively on a child's happiness may in fact be setting them up for profound unhappiness later in life. Here I was, seeing the flesh-and-blood results of the kind of parenting that my peers and I were trying to practice with our own kids, precisely so that they wouldn’t end up on a [...]
Strong parent-school partnerships have been found to have a positive impact on student engagement and achievement, and not just at the primary school level. Not only do students achieve better, they also stay at school longer. In 2008 the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (B.E.C.T.A) - funded by the Department of Children, Schools [...]
Experts wonder whether popular culture’s emphasis on physical appearance, wealth and status is to blame for the increase in mental health issues. Corroborating what school counselors have observed nationwide, a new study found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with mental health issues as students that were surveyed during [...]
How can we bring more trust into the lives of our young people? Here are a few suggestions: Never make promises that you are not able or do not intend to keep Admit your own failings and mistakes - it is hard to trust someone who always thinks they are right! Watch your words - [...]
Women who cut red meat out of their diet are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety, according to a study. Those who eat less than the recommended amount of lamb and beef were twice as likely to be diagnosed with the mental health disorders, researchers in Australia have found. The study of more [...]
Dr Peter Vajda, a cognitive psychologist, sees gossip as a form of “workplace violence”. He reasons that people who gossip do so out of fear. They use gossip as a defense mechanism to protect themselves from divulging their true self. In other words, by attacking others, they don’t need to fess up to their own [...]
