If Lady Gaga is so passionate about bullying and finding ways to make it stop, it's because she comes from a place of experience. Back in high school, after years of being bullied, she became a bulimic to cope with peer pressure, she reveals. In a recent interview cited by the Huffington Post, the hitmaker says ... |
9 February 2012
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Investigators at the Ohio State University say that the nature of relationships between mothers and their babies are important factors in determining the weight that child will have later on in life. The way the two interact also reflects on the self-image the child will have as he or she grows into a teen.
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27 December 2011
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Studies have established some time ago that talking to yourself to boost your self-confidence is a good way of reducing stress and improving performances. In a new research, experts demonstrate that overdoing this behavior can trigger depression.
In order for this to happen, the team explains, people have to be unt... |
21 October 2011
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In a groundbreaking new discovery, researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announce that genes may play an important role in determining people's sense of optimism, self-esteem and mastery. The latter is a feeling people get when they are in control of their own lives.
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14 September 2011
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Whenever people feel low, they have the tendency to make expensive purchases, the results of a new psychological research revealed. Experts say that, whenever people do this, they tend to pay using their credit card, perhaps in an attempt to make the financial blow to the budget easier to handle. One of the reasons f... |
9 May 2011
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A group of British investigators from the University of Kent have recently determined that children who are subjected to the effects of online ostracism tend to have lower levels of self-esteem than their peers. This is the first study ever to look at the correlations between the two phenomena. Previous investigation... |
22 March 2010
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Self-help programs are training courses in which participants are taught how to impose it upon themselves that they are able to overcome a certain problem. The issue with these groups is that most of them are addressed to people who already have a low level of self-esteem. A new study demonstrates that individuals wh... |
7 July 2009
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Scientists have argued for a long time that one of the basic components of an individual's self-esteem is their satisfaction of the way they look. Unfortunately, as today's beauty standards are promoted very aggressively, even children feel more and more compelled to look like the artificial beauties in Hol... |
19 March 2009
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Couples in which one of the partners exhibits high levels of relationship-contingent self-esteem (RCSE) may be placed under unnecessary strain, recent scientific studies show. Too much emotional weight placed in the relationship can scare the other partner away, or create uncomfortable situations that do more harm th... |
3 December 2008
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It's like there's just the two of you in this world. But after the "fire" of the beginning passes and you start building on your relationship, and you realize that many "hungry eagles" hover around. Can they be dangerous? In a committed relationship, partners have to assume that their connection is too stro... |
25 June 2007
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