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You’re Not Alone If You’re Hearing Voices

23Jun

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SOCIETY, TOP FOUR, VIDEO REELS

You’re Not Alone If You’re Hearing Voices

Hearing voices? You’re not alone. From the little voice telling us we’re no good to the one offering advice, the experience of hearing voices is more common than you might think. It is estimated that 13.2% of the adult general population are subject to it, yet this experience still carries much stigma. Whom can you turn to when you’re no longer alone in your head? For several decades now, the international Hearing Voices Movement (HVM) has been campaigning to improve the way this condition is perceived. Two recent studies conducted at the University of Lorraine in eastern France have assessed how its support groups have impacted the French health care system. Changing textbooks You’re hearing voices and in one fell swoop, the gavel falls: you’re mad. How could it be otherwise? You don’t...

Contrasting Sharply With Everyone Else — Most Super Rich Couples Have Stay-At-Home Wives And Bread-Winning Husbands

7Jun

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LIFESTYLE, SOCIETY, TOP FOUR

Contrasting Sharply With Everyone Else — Most Super Rich Couples Have Stay-At-Home Wives And Bread-Winning Husbands

Most super rich couples have bread-winning husbands and stay-at-home wives, contrasting sharply with everyone else. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Men are the sole breadwinners in over half of super rich heterosexual couples – defined as those in the top 1% of households – while the women are not employed, according to our new peer-reviewed study. That’s twice the rate of less affluent heterosexual couples. Our finding is based on 30 years of data, from 1989 to 2019, from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances. We examined how couples divide work, focusing on three different wealthy groups – the super rich, the just plain rich and the upper middle class, as defined by their wealth percentile, and compared them with those of le...

19Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, SOCIETY, TOP FOUR

OCD Is A Bully

OCD Is a Bully, But You Can Stand Up to It! This article is based on the concept of standing up to OCD as if it is a school bully. It introduces concepts into a well-known and widely used technique that is employed by therapists for helping those with OCD. This article is also stipulates the hard work and effort that is required by people who suffer OCD to manage this potentially crippling disorder. This article also shares true insights and realities of effectively managing OCD. OCD is misunderstood. It is often misunderstood by the general public/the general community and sometimes even those working in the mental health sector, however it should be acknowledged that nurses and other workers indeed generally have a solid understanding of mental health problems and many workers have a...

Teens Pornography And Sexting Experiences At School — What Parents And Educators Need To Know

7Mar

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IMPACT, SOCIETY, TOP FOUR

Teens Pornography And Sexting Experiences At School — What Parents And Educators Need To Know

What parents and educators need to know about teens’ pornography and sexting experiences at school. Three out of four teenagers have seen online pornography – often before they even became a teenager. That’s according to a new report from Common Sense Media that examines the role pornography plays in the lives of today’s youth. Some teens do more than just watch pornography. By way of “sexting,” teenagers are also creating and sending their own images and videos of themselves in the nude. For the most part, it’s not the job of school staff to worry about what kids are looking at on the internet or sending over their phones. However, as an expert on human development – and as one who studies adolescent sexuality – I believe parents and educators should be prepared to address potential iss...

One Community’s Story Of Meth Use And Domestic Violence – ‘When He’s Not On Drugs, He’s A Good Person’

20Feb

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SOCIETY

One Community’s Story Of Meth Use And Domestic Violence – ‘When He’s Not On Drugs, He’s A Good Person’

One night, after five days of smoking meth, Misty* heard a voice. It just said ‘BOOM! Get up’ and I got up and was like, ‘where’s my son?’ and I run to the bathroom and my little girl’s standing at the sink and I could see the water running and coming down the hallway and he was already blue at the bottom of the tub. So I grabbed him up and was like, I mean, panic – I couldn’t do nothing but sing ‘Amazing Grace.’ It’s the only thing I knew to do. Misty’s son, one of her five children, survived – he was saved by a neighbour who worked for the ambulance service in their Alabama community. At first glance, Misty’s story is a cautionary tale against drug use, not unlike those portrayed in campaigns like the Faces of Meth and the Meth Project in the US. Media depictions of people who use meth...

Research Suggests Easy Access To Guns And Exposure To Screen Violence Increase The Risk Of A Child Becoming A Shooter

5Apr

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SOCIETY

Research Suggests Easy Access To Guns And Exposure To Screen Violence Increase The Risk Of A Child Becoming A Shooter

In the aftermath of a shocking incident in which a first grader shot and seriously injured a teacher at a school in Newport News, Virginia, the city’s mayor asked the question: “How did this happen?” Some details are now known: The child took the gun from his home, and the firearm was legally purchased by his mother. Many other aspects of the incident have yet to be established – not least, the likely many factors that resulted in the boy shooting his teacher. But as experts in media use and its connections to violence, we have reported some disturbing findings about how children are influenced by gun violence depicted in media like television, movies and video games. What makes this more troubling is the fact that millions of children in the U.S. have easy access to firearms in their ho...

School Shootings Haven’t Stopped, And Killed More People Five Years After Parkland

5Apr

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SOCIETY

School Shootings Haven’t Stopped, And Killed More People Five Years After Parkland

In the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting on Valentine’s Day 2018, many Americans hoped that, finally, something would be done to address the problem of gun violence in the nation’s schools. Despite the outpouring of grief and calls for action that followed the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, school shootings continue to occur with alarming frequency. While progress has been made in some areas, such as increased funding for school security and mental health resources, there is still much work to be done to ensure the safety and well-being of students and educators in schools across the country. On Jan. 6, 2023, in Newport News, Virginia, a 6-year-old student is alleged to have intentionally shot his teacher. He is among the youngest school shooting...

The Psychological Benefits Of Commuting The Journey From Work To Home That Remote Work Doesn’t Provide – It’s About More Than Just Getting There

13Feb

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SOCIETY, TOP FOUR

The Psychological Benefits Of Commuting The Journey From Work To Home That Remote Work Doesn’t Provide – It’s About More Than Just Getting There

For most American workers who commute, the trip to and from the office takes nearly one full hour a day – 26 minutes each way on average, with 7.7% of workers spending two hours or more on the road. Many people think of commuting as a chore and a waste of time. However, during the remote work surge resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, several journalists curiously noted that people were – could it be? – missing their commutes. One woman told The Washington Post that even though she was working from home, she regularly sat in her car in the driveway at the end of the workday in an attempt to carve out some personal time and mark the transition from work to nonwork roles. As management scholars who study the interface between peoples’ work and personal lives, we sought to understand what ...

What Happens If Our Brain Needs Sleep, And We Don’t Get Enough

20Jan

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, LIFESTYLE, SOCIETY

What Happens If Our Brain Needs Sleep, And We Don’t Get Enough

Many of us have experienced the effects of sleep deprivation: feeling tired and cranky, or finding it hard to concentrate. Sleep is more important for our brains than you may realize. Although it may appear you’re “switching off” when you fall asleep, the brain is far from inactive. What we know from studying patterns of brain electrical activity is that while you sleep, your brain cycles through two main types of patterns: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and slow-wave sleep. Slow-wave sleep, which occurs more at the beginning of the night, is characterized by slow rhythms of electrical activity across large numbers of brain cells (occurring one to four times per second). As the night progresses, we have more and more REM sleep. During REM sleep we often have vivid dreams, and our brains ...

‘Phubbing’ Your Loved Ones For Your Phone Can Do More Damage Than You Realise

30Dec

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SOCIETY, TOP FOUR

‘Phubbing’ Your Loved Ones For Your Phone Can Do More Damage Than You Realise

It’s pretty normal to walk through a university campus and see students sitting together, yet ignoring each other for their smartphones – but not in Spain. I’m currently visiting the University of Navarra, where each time I pass the open space outside the Institute for Culture and Society, I see the vast majority of students talking to each other without their phones in hand. As Inés Olza, a linguist from the institute, explains: In Spain people like to talk. For them, a conversation is a cooperative process; silence makes them uncomfortable. This is great news for these students, because ignoring people in favour of a phone – an act known as “phubbing”, or phone snubbing – has dire consequences. Earlier this month I published a book called The Psychology of Phubbing. In it, I build on m...