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Mobbing schlägt dauerhaft auf die Gesundheit (Bullying has long-term consequences for health)
Die Welt: Wer in seiner Kindheit von Gleichaltrigen gemobbt wurde, hat nach einer neuen Studie oft auch noch als Erwachsener mit den Folgewirkungen zu kämpfen. Nach der am Montag vom US-Fachmagazin "Psychological Science" veröffentlichten Untersuchung können schwere Krankheiten, Unstetigkeit im Berufsleben und reduzierte Sozialkontakte die Langzeitfolgen der Mobbing-Erfahrungen sein. Für die großangelegte Studie untersuchten die Psychologen die Lebenserfahrungen von 1420 Teilnehmern – zunächst, als sie im Alter zwischen neun und 16 Jahren waren und später im Erwachsenenalter zwischen 24 und 26 Jahren. Read the whole story: Die Welt
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The Key to Happy Relationships? It’s Not All About Communication
TIME: If couples were paying any attention during the last few decades, they should be able to recite the one critical ingredient for a healthy relationship — communication. But the latest study shows that other skills may be almost as important for keeping couples happy. While expressing your needs and feelings in a positive way to your significant other is a good foundation for resolving conflicts and building a healthy relationship, these skills may not be as strong a predictor of couples’ happiness as experts once thought. ...
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The Military Epidemics That Aren’t
The Wall Street Journal: There is a growing presumption in the West that war dehumanizes those who experience combat, or, in more extreme expressions, even those who only serve in the military. In this country, for example, journalist Robert Koehler writes of war itself as a "disease," one that produces a nearly infinite variety of violent "symptoms." ... Compared with other countries, the United States diagnoses PTSD cases at improbably high rates. Recent PTSD rates in the U.S. have reached as high as 30%, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Good Deeds Gone Bad
The New York Times: ON your way to work today you may have paused to let another car merge into your lane. Or you stopped to give a dollar to a subway artist. A minute later, another chance to do the same may have appeared. Did your first act make the second more tempting? Or did you decide you had done your good deed for the day? Strangely, researchers have demonstrated both reactions — moral consistency and moral compensation — repeatedly in laboratories, leading them to ask why virtue sometimes begets more virtue and sometimes allows for vice. In doing so, they have shed an interesting light on how the conscience works.
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Writing – for health and happiness?
BBC: Decades of research have shown that writing down your emotions has concrete health benefits - even helping wounds heal. But as more and more people publish their intimate feelings online, could they be doing themselves more harm than good? High-profile coverage of cyberbullying might make sharing your deepest emotions online sound like a bad idea, but when it comes to the risks and benefits of writing online, advice is mixed. The American Academy of Pediatrics, for example, suggests questions about social media are included in visits to the doctor, a move prompted by worries about cyberbullying, internet addiction and sleep deprivation.
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Intelligence Means Having More Than Just Raw Brainpower
Business Insider: These situational factors exert their influence in so many ways, but today, inspired by a recent research finding, I want to focus on one in particular: how a mastery of situation can actually make us smarter as we get older. In the current issue of the journal Psychological Science, researchers report that older people (over 65) showedless variability in their cognitive performance across 100 days of testing than did younger people aged 20 to 31. Why?
