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UK Government Backs Media Literacy Teaching Pack to Help Children Understand How the Media Alter Images And the Impact These have on Self Esteem
A new ‘media literacy’ teaching pack to help children understand how the media often alter images and the impact these have on self esteem, was backed by Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone today. How People Arrived Here: impact on media...
Study Suggests Embarrassed People More Trustworthy
If tripping in public or mistaking an overweight woman for a mother-to-be leaves you red-faced, don’t feel bad. A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that people who are easily embarrassed are also more trustworthy, and more...
Narcissists Only Look Like Good Leaders
Narcissists rise to the top. That’s because other people think their qualities—confidence, dominance, authority, and self-esteem—make them good leaders.
Social Acceptance And Rejection: The Sweet And the Bitter
For proof that rejection, exclusion, and acceptance are central to our lives, look no farther than the living room, says Nathan Dewall, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky. “If you turn on the television set, and watch any reality TV program,...Money And Mimicry
We rely on money in our day-to-day life and it is constantly in our minds. After all, money makes the world go round, doesn’t it? Now, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association...
Pen Pal Kids Club Launches Global Translated Safe Online Environment for Children to Discover Global-relationships
Pen Pal Kids Club the translated global social network for children, has announced its global launch. Pen Pal Kids Club is an edu-tainment website where kids can freely SHARE, EXPLORE & PLAY with other kids around the world. “I have always believed...
Power Or Gender Most Important in Causing Infidelity?
We have all seen the headlines. A powerful athlete, politician or businessman has committed adultery. The tabloids fly off the shelves and the papers are consumed with the how’s and why’s. However there is one key group that is often missing from...
Current Violent Juvenile Treatment Methods Costly And Ineffective
In a time of shrinking budgets, one University of Missouri professor believes that the current approach to juvenile crime is much too expensive to continue – and he has the numbers to prove it.
