Michele Pasin / Quotes

Television and aggressive children

decades we have known of the connection between hostile peer interactions and the amount of kids’ exposure to television. The linkage used to be controversial (maybe aggressive people watch more TV than others?), but we now see that it’s an issue of our deferred-imitation abilities coupled with a loss of impulse control.

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#television #violence #behavior #children

Daily behavior betrays how we feel

pressing problems, immediate concerns, and outward behaviors. I become reactive. And the way I interact with my children every day often bears little…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #parents #children #feelings #behavior

Identity as coordinates on a map of relationships

Whatever the reason, I felt dishearteningly alone in the city. I’d lost Prabaker and Abdullah, my closest friends, in the same week, and with them I’d lost…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #friends #violence #personal-identity

India and the doctrine of necessity

At first, on that first journey out of the city into India, I found such sudden politeness infuriating after the violent scramble to board the train. It…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #violence

Milgram's obedience experiments

More worryingly, our willingness to cause terrible harms also seems to be highly situation-dependent. Two classic studies stand out. In his notorious…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #experiments #power #situation #violence

Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross

"Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross When ignorance reigns, life is lost" Religious fanatics prey on the minds of those who are lost or weak…

Rage Against The Machine - Township Rebellion Lyrics | Songmeanings #war #people #religion #life #violence

The Stanford Prison Experiment

The other infamous case is the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which Philip Zimbardo and his team simulated conditions in a prison with student volunteers…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #experiments #power #situation #violence