in this magazine will know more of psychology
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Autor: Luis Niño
IN THIS
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WILL KNOW
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Introduction The study of psychology in a philosophical
context dates back to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, China, India , and Persia. Historians point to the writings of ancient Greek philosophers, such as Thales, Plato, and Aristotle (especially in his De Anima treatise),as the first significant body of work in the West to be rich in psychological thought.[As early as the 4th century BC, Greek physician Hippocartes theorized that mental disorders were of a physical, rather than divine, nature
Resilience The results showed that students who were more resilient
(about a fifth) were more satisfied with life and also believed
they had control over their emotions and state of mind.
Resilience seems to be correlated positively with satisfaction
with an individual's life. Dr Joaquín T Limonero, professor of the UAB Research Group
on Stress and Health at UAB who coordinated the research
said: "Some of the characteristics of being resilient can be worked
on and improved, such as self-esteem and being able to
regulate one's emotions. Learning these techniques can offer
people the resources needed to help them adapt and improve
their quality of life." The study was published in Behavioral Psychology and also
included UAB researcher Jordi Fernández Castro; professors
of the Gimbernat School of Nursing (a UAB-affiliated centre)
Joaquín Tomás-Sábado and Amor Aradilla Herrera; and
psychologist and researcher of Egarsat, M. José Gómez-
Romero.
Why is Laughter Contagious?
Why does one person pick up another's emotions so
easily? It seems that human emotions are highly contagious.
For example, one person's laughter is soon shared by
another's. The explanation is that strong emotions
synchronize the brain activity of different individuals
according to research by Finland's Aalto University and
Turku PET Centre research published in the Proceedings of
The National Academy of Sciences
Seeing emotional expressions such as smiles and laughter
in someone else often triggers a corresponding emotional
response in the watcher. This may be a basic element of
social interation: synchronyzing a common emotional state in
all members of a group whose brains process what they see
of the environment around themin a similar fashion.
The Finnish researchers measured brain activity with
functional magnetic resonance imaging while participants
were looking at short pleasant, neutral and unpleasant
movies.The researchers found that strong and unpleasant
emotions synchronized participants brains’ emotion
processing networks in the frontal and midline regions while
highly arousing movies synchronized activity in brain
networks supporting vision, attention and sense of touch.
Bullying A study of 17,000 Vancouver, BC students has found
that schoolyard bullying and cyber-bullying have very different characteristics. Jennifer Shapka, associate professor in the Faculty of Education at UBC said:
"There are currently many programs aimed at reducing bullying in schools and I think there is an assumption that these programs deal with cyberbullying as well. What we're seeing is that kids don't equate cyberbullying with traditional forms of schoolyard bullying. As such, we shouldn't assume that existing interventions will be relevant to aggression that is happening online."
UBC studies show that 25-30% of the students have been involved in cyber-bullying - as perpetrators or victims - compared with 12% in schoolyard bullying. Most (95%) cyber-bullying consider it to be 'joking'. Jennifer Shapka says "It is clear that youth are underestimating the level of harm associated with cyberbullying. Students need to be educated that this 'just joking' behaviour has serious implications."
Whereas 'traditional' bullying has three components: power differential between bully and victim proactive targeting of a victim ongoing aggression cyber-bullying appears to lack planned targeting of
the victim and the same individuals can be victim, witness and perpretrator.
-Jokes - Mum, mum, in school
everybody tells me that I'm confused!
- Hey, kid, this is not your house... you live opposite the street!
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