The majority of students can not imagine their weekends without parties and every party is unimaginable without alcohol. Drinking alcohol has become a part of college life. It is noticed that 40 per cent of American students are supossed to be heavy drinkers. Researches have decided to study this problem by investigating what encourages students to drink.
Researcher Clayton Neighbor and his collegues have found that social norms have influence on student's choice. Students wish to be members or fraternity or sorority and it stimulates them to be "cool" and drink alcohol. So, one of the factors, which encourages students to drink is pressure of others.
Another factor is a belief that drinking alcohol helps to forget problems, reduces tiredness and helps to relax.
All things considered, there is one way how to reduce the level of student's drinking - to change their attitude towards alcohol.
2010 m. lapkričio 24 d., trečiadienis
Professor Richard Wiseman
Richard Wiseman is based at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, and has gained an international reputation for research into quirky areas of psychology, including deception, humour, luck and the paranormal. Wiseman started his professional life as a magician, before graduating in Psychology from University College London and obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh.
I have read more about his researches in Psychology of luck. This aspect of Wiseman's research explores why some people live charmed lives and develops techniques that enable others to enhance their good fortune. The project began in 1994 and has involved hundreds of exceptionally lucky and unlucky people.
Professor decided to search for the elusive luck factor by investigating the actual beliefs and experiences of lucky and unlucky people. From the result, Wiseman was able to identify four main factors which explained living lucky life. Here they are:
1. Maximise chance opportunities
2. Listen to intuition
3. Expect good fortune
4. Turn bad luck to good
Then he was able to show a group of people that considered themselves unlucky, how to think and behave like lucky people.
I have read more about his researches in Psychology of luck. This aspect of Wiseman's research explores why some people live charmed lives and develops techniques that enable others to enhance their good fortune. The project began in 1994 and has involved hundreds of exceptionally lucky and unlucky people.
Professor decided to search for the elusive luck factor by investigating the actual beliefs and experiences of lucky and unlucky people. From the result, Wiseman was able to identify four main factors which explained living lucky life. Here they are:
1. Maximise chance opportunities
2. Listen to intuition
3. Expect good fortune
4. Turn bad luck to good
Then he was able to show a group of people that considered themselves unlucky, how to think and behave like lucky people.
The results were astounding with almost all participants reporting significant life changes: including increased levels of luck, self-esteem, physical well-being, confidence and success.
The results of this research were published in the self-help book "The Luck Factor", that became a best-seller in the United Kingdom.
2010 m. lapkričio 4 d., ketvirtadienis
Psychology of the Internet
From almost total obscurity the Internet swiftly leapt into our lives. Nowadays it sustains almost any human activity we can imagine.
As a new environment, the Internet can have potent effects on our behavior. It is a place where we are acting and interacting rather strangely at times. Sometimes it effects seem to be quite positive, but sometimes we do things online that we might never do in any other environment and that we regret later.
Speaking about youth, they usually use the Internet for communication with others in chat rooms or social webs. When people are online at the same time, they can enter chat rooms to engage in a kind of real time conversation with others. It looks really atractive, because people can create their new personality, because nobody knows who they really are. But the real problem is that sometimes it became like an obssesion and people spend all their free time by chating with others. And it is quite possible that in a course of time, those people will lose ability to communicate with others "face to face".
On the other hand, the Internet could be very helpful and necessary. For example, for our studies ( to find information, use electronical dictionaries or electronical books ), daily life ( to read news, pay bills, do shopping ), job ( to fill and send documents ).
In conclusion, the Internet has it's advantages and disadvantages and it depends on a person on which purpose he will use the Internet.
References:
http://books.google.lt/books?id=k0Z2-I0zrDgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+psychology+of+the+internet&source=bl&ots=pcgi934PAf&sig=hA4lFye-7QdaymwP86VmIzP6z2E&hl=lt&ei=uKUHTcHAE8KhOr7fiM0J&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
As a new environment, the Internet can have potent effects on our behavior. It is a place where we are acting and interacting rather strangely at times. Sometimes it effects seem to be quite positive, but sometimes we do things online that we might never do in any other environment and that we regret later.
Speaking about youth, they usually use the Internet for communication with others in chat rooms or social webs. When people are online at the same time, they can enter chat rooms to engage in a kind of real time conversation with others. It looks really atractive, because people can create their new personality, because nobody knows who they really are. But the real problem is that sometimes it became like an obssesion and people spend all their free time by chating with others. And it is quite possible that in a course of time, those people will lose ability to communicate with others "face to face".
On the other hand, the Internet could be very helpful and necessary. For example, for our studies ( to find information, use electronical dictionaries or electronical books ), daily life ( to read news, pay bills, do shopping ), job ( to fill and send documents ).
In conclusion, the Internet has it's advantages and disadvantages and it depends on a person on which purpose he will use the Internet.
References:
http://books.google.lt/books?id=k0Z2-I0zrDgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+psychology+of+the+internet&source=bl&ots=pcgi934PAf&sig=hA4lFye-7QdaymwP86VmIzP6z2E&hl=lt&ei=uKUHTcHAE8KhOr7fiM0J&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
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