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It’s Easy To Get People To Do Bad Things—This Might Be Why

(Photo : University College London) In the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram famously conducted experiments in a Yale University basement showing that people will apparently inflict pain on another person simply because someone in a position of authority told them to. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biologyon Feb. 18, 2016 have [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-02-22T16:28:28+11:00February 19th, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: coercion, human behaviour, psychology, responsibility, social punishment, Yale university|0 Comments

Obsessing over happiness has adverse effects

An obsession with happiness is having an adverse effect for those who seek it, experts say. Over the last 30 years, the pursuit of happiness has come to define the ultimate modern goal. Yet a new study shows levels of expectation about happiness are unreasonable and set young people up for failure. Researchers at Yale [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2012-09-16T15:41:27+10:00September 16th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: children, Culture & Society, generation next, Happiness, Media, Mental Health, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Obsession, Positive Psychology, wellbeing, Yale university, young people, youth|0 Comments