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Why Authenticity Is the Best Dating Strategy
Is it better to be yourself or play hard to get when dating? Is being yourself attractive and what type of person does being yourself attract? Do we become more emotionally open and available when we are made to feel safe to be our true selves?
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Loving Oneself by Watching Porn?
Media clickbait headlines love to blame all kinds of wild things on pornography use, and the recent rise in social acceptance of pornography. A recent fad of women who have “bleaching” of the tissues around their anus is commonly blamed on porn, as is the rise in vaginoplasty, a form of plastic surgery involving alteration to the appearance of female genitalia.
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Teenagers Define Themselves Mostly In Terms Of Their Positive Traits; Adults More In Terms Of Their Social Roles
This is the Twenty Statements Test and it’s designed to assess how we see ourselves – our “self-concept”. For their new paper in the journal Memory, a team at the University of Reading, led by Emily Hards, gave this test to 822 teenagers (aged 13-18) from three schools in England, with the additional instruction “not to think too much about the responses and not to worry about the order/importance of the statements”.
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Ambidexterity and Wellness part fourteen,Finding your Authentic Self: by Dr. Eric Zabiegalski
So I’m a little left of center, I’m a little out of tune, some say I’m paranormal, so I just bend their spoon, who wants to be ordinary, in a crazy mixed up world – Michelle Branch, American singer/songwriter. You Get Me Michelle Branch’s catchy 2001 song has it right, nobody wants to be ordinary.
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The Loneliness of the Internet Troll
Loneliness is a powerful psychological, emotional and behavioral state, associated with significant risks to mental and physical health. Online trolling is a huge and growing problem, as well. According to the Pew Research Center (Online Harassment, 2017
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Is it okay to not be passionate about anything?
When she was asked what her passions were, Karen Hardy struggled to come up with an answer. Is that such a bad thing?
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Why Are Mean People So Powerful?
Are there narcissists in your life who are just plain mean? Do you ask yourself, “How can someone be so mean?” Do you wonder sometimes how they even come up with their aggressive and vengeful antics? Are you shocked at the power of mean people and their ability to trigger your emotions?
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How to identify a narcissist — and cope with their potentially toxic behavior
The word “narcissist” is one of those tricky terms that is both luxuriously broad in meaning (it’s defined on Dictionary.com as “a person who is overly self-involved, and often vain and selfish) as well as clinically specific. A narcissist, from a psychiatric perspective, is a person suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), a formal diagnosis coined after years of psychoanalytic study.
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“Politically Incorrect” Speakers Are Seen As More Authentic — Especially If The Audience Already Shares Their Views
So said then-candidate Donald J Trump during a US presidential debate in 2015. Trump may have strong feelings on the matter, but he’s not alone. “Dozens of articles are written about political correctness every month in [US-based] media outlets spanning the political spectrum,” note the authors of a new paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Narcissism might be a dark trait but it can lower stress levels and reduce chances of depression
People who have grandiose narcissistic traits are more likely to be ‘mentally tough’, feel less stressed and are less vulnerable to depression, research led by Queen’s University Belfast has found.
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Daddy Issues and Dark Triad Predict Sexual Attention-Seeking
Can sexy selfies be traced back to “daddy issues” and dark triad traits? New research suggests “yes.” Inspired by the growing popularity of sexy selfies and cosmetic surgery, Connor, Spark, and Kaya (2019) developed a scale to measure the desire for sexual attention and looked at its relationship with parental bonding and the three dark triad traits...
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Simply Imagining Other People Can Change Our Own Sense Of Self
So begins a new paper, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, which reveals that who you “are” can easily be manipulated. Just imagining somebody else can alter all kinds of aspects of how you see yourself, even including your personality and memories.
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Good At Heart? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Better Side Of Humanity
Last year we published a list of ten psychology findings that reveal the worst of human nature. Research has shown us to be dogmatic and over-confident, we wrote, with a tendency to look down on minorities and assume that the downtrodden deserve their fate. Even young children take pleasure in the suffering of others, we pointed out.
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Study: As they age, people become more narcissistic in one positive way
Time to retire several tired stereotypes about how young people are self-centered snowflakes.
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Calling yourself an atheist is about honesty, not rebellion
This is a man who grew into authenticity and is now reaping the reward. He brings to mind the advice of Polonius from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”: “This above all: to thine own self be true.” Polonius’ words encourage us to live honestly with ourselves. Similarly, Beltran shares a personal lesson with his friends, namely that we cannot lie to ourselves (or others) without negative consequences.
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What Happened to Jordan Peterson?
The Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson has been described as “the most influential public intellectual in the Western world.” He is an exponent of the Jungian concept of the hero’s journey, in which an ordinary person heeds a call to adventure and goes out into the world to struggle and suffer, only to return with heightened self-knowledge.
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Teenagers Who Believe They Are Particularly Intelligent Tend To Be More Narcissistic And Happier With Life
Though it may vary based on context or mood, most of us have a fairly steady belief in how intelligent we think we are. Whether that belief is in any way accurate or even helpful is a different question — one 2019 study found that people who were happier to admit they don’t know something actually had better general knowledge, whilst a survey from the year before found that the majority of Americans believed they were smarter than average.
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Do our sexual preferences affect our personalities?
Do our sexual preferences affect our personalities? Aussie researchers reviewing the findings of 21 past studies have found that men and women who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual tend to show different personality traits to those who identify as straight, especially among younger adults...
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Self-Compassion Can Protect You From Feeling Like A Burden When You Mess Things Up For Your Group
It feels bad to know that you’ve messed up, especially when other people have to pay a price for your actions. Unfortunately, this feeling is something that most of us end up experiencing at one point or another — when we’re placed on a team with other people at school or at a job, for instance, and make a mistake that forces our team members to do more work as a result.
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How Social Isolation Affects the Brain
Absence of human contact is associated with declines in cognitive function. But as the COVID-19 pandemic brings concerns about the potential harms of isolation to the fore, researchers are still hunting for concrete evidence of a causal role as well as possible mechanisms.
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